Division of Kooyong

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The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and encompasses the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Balwyn, Canterbury, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after an Indigenous Australian word meaning "camp" or "resting place", and shares its name with the suburb of Kooyong, Victoria.

Kooyong is currently a safe Liberal or non-Labor seat. The seat is considered to be the cradle of conservative leadership, with Kooyong hosting various figures of notable political stature, including former Prime Minister Robert Menzies and former Leaders of the Opposition Andrew Peacock and John Latham. The high-profile Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou now comfortably holds the seat. He successfully saw off a challenge from Joshua Frydenberg for Liberal Party preselection for the seat in April 2006.

In the 1990 election, comedian Tim Ferguson of the Doug Anthony All Stars stood as an independent candidate for Kooyong against Andrew Peacock^[1], gaining 3.7% of the vote.^[2]

There has been a reduction in the strength of the conservative vote in recent years. In the 1994 by-election for Kooyong, Peter Singer achieved 28.03% for the primary vote as a candidate for the Greens when the ALP did not run a candidate.

The Greens primary vote in Kooyong increased from 10.7% in 2001 to 12.5% in 2004, when Kooyong received the 11th highest Green primary vote of all House of Representative seats in Australia.

Kooyong is now held by a smaller margin (in 2004 Two Party Preferred LP 59.58% ALP 40.42%) than the seat of Aston (2004 Two Party Preferred LP 63.15% ALP 36.85%), which was classified as a marginal seat in 2001.

1 Members
2 Election results
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Members

Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Free Trade\|	William Knox	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1901—1909
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Commonwealth Liberal\|	William Knox	Commonwealth Liberal	1909—1910
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Commonwealth Liberal\|	Robert Best	Commonwealth Liberal	1910—1916
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Nationalist\|	Robert Best	Nationalist	1916—1922
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Independent\|	John Latham	Independent	1922—1925
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Nationalist\|		Nationalist	1925—1931
Template:Australian politics/party colours/UAP\|		United Australia	1931—1934
Template:Australian politics/party colours/UAP\|	Robert Menzies	United Australia	1934—1944
	Robert Menzies	Liberal	1944—1966
	Andrew Peacock	Liberal	1966—1994
	Petro Georgiou	Liberal	1994—present

[edit] Election results

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Australian federal election, 2007: Kooyong
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Total formal votes		81,928	97.90	+0.80
Informal votes		1,756	2.10	-0.80
Turnout		83,684	94.75	+0.49
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Australian federal election, 2004: Kooyong
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Total formal votes		79,727	97.10	-0.33
Informal votes		2,380	2.90	+0.33
Turnout		82,107	94.26	-1.26
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