Division of Brisbane Totally Explained

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The Division of Brisbane is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the city of Brisbane.

Boundaries

On its original boundaries, Brisbane included all of what is now the northern part of the City of Brisbane, but successive boundary changes cut it back to the inner suburban area.
It now extends from the city centre into the western suburbs, and includes Alderley, Ashgrove, Bowen Hills, Brisbane City, Enoggera, Ferny Grove, Fortitude Valley, Gaythorne, Grange, Herston, Kelvin Grove, Keperra, Milton, Mitchelton, New Farm, Newmarket, Newstead, Red Hill, Spring Hill, Upper Kedron, Wilston, and Windsor, and parts of Bardon, Everton Park, Paddington, and Stafford.

Members

For most of its history it has been a fairly safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, but the Liberal Party won it in 1975 and 1977. It was Labor's most vulnerable seat at the 2004 election, but the sitting member, Arch Bevis, gained a substantial swing and has made the seat fairly secure. This may have been influenced by the controversy over Family First preferences, where Liberal candidate Ingrid Tall was denied Family First preferences as an out Lesbian.

	arty	erm
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson	Independent	1901—1903
Millice Culpin	Labor	1903—1906
Justin Foxton	Anti-Socialist	1906—1909
Justin Foxton	Commonwealth Liberal	1909—1910
William Finlayson	Labor	1910—1919
Donald Cameron	Nationalist	1919—1931
George Lawson	Labor	1931—1961
Manfred Cross	Labor	1961—1975
Peter Johnson	Liberal	1975—1980
Manfred Cross	Labor	1980—1990
Arch Bevis	Labor	1990—present

Election results

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