Division of Canberra

Canberra Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1974
MP	Gai Brodtmann
Party	Labor
Namesake	Canberra
Electors	143,279 (2016)
Area	1,921 km² (741.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Canberra is an Australian electoral division in the Australian Capital Territory. The division was created in redistibution of 19 April 1974 of the former Division of Australian Capital Territory. It is named for the city of Canberra, Australia's national capital, and includes the districts of Tuggeranong, Weston Creek and Woden Valley, along with the rest of the ACT south of the Molonglo River and Lake Burley Griffin. Civic, Acton, Turner (south of Haig Park), Braddon (south of Haig Park), Reid, Campbell and Pialligo are also in Canberra. For most of its history it has been a fairly safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, but it has been won by the Liberal Party twice, most recently at a 1995 by-election. As of 1 July 2016, the division includes Norfolk Island.^[1]

Members

Australian federal election, 2016: Canberra^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Gai Brodtmann	55,091	42.80	+1.65
	Liberal	Jessica Adelan-Langford	48,416	37.61	+0.28
	Greens	Patricia Cahill	19,200	14.92	+1.86
	Bullet Train	Christopher Bucknell	6,013	4.67	+0.51
Total formal votes			128,720	97.29	+1.14
Informal votes			3,590	2.71	−1.14
Turnout			132,310	92.34	−4.12
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Gai Brodtmann	75,247	58.46	+0.95
	Liberal	Jessica Adelan-Langford	53,473	41.54	−0.95
	Labor hold		Swing	+0.95

↑ "Norfolk Island Electors". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
↑ Canberra, ACT, Virtual Tally Room, AEC.

Electoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives from the Australian Capital and Northern Territories

ACT: Canberra (also covers Norfolk Island from 1 July 2016) Fenner (also covers Jervis Bay Territory) NT: Lingiari (also covers Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands) Solomon Abolished: Australian Capital Territory Fraser Namadgi Northern Territory

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

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