Misplaced Pages

Division of Hinkler

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Australian federal electoral division

"Hinkler" redirects here. For other uses, see Hinkler (disambiguation). Australian electorate
Hinkler
Australian House of Representatives Division
MapInteractive map of boundaries
Created1984
MPKeith Pitt
PartyNational
NamesakeBert Hinkler
Electors117,306 (2022)
Area3,504 km (1,352.9 sq mi)
DemographicProvincial and rural

The Division of Hinkler is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It includes the city of Bundaberg and its surrounds. The current MP is Keith Pitt of the National Party.

Geography

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.

History

Bert Hinkler, the division's namesake

The division was created in 1984 and is named after Bert Hinkler, the great pioneer Australian aviator.

The seat is located in coastal Queensland, including the towns of Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Childers, Gayndah and Monto.

The electoral division had previously centred on Gladstone and its surrounding area. On those boundaries, it was a marginal seat that traded hands between the Australian Labor Party and the National Party of Australia. However, after a redistribution in 2006, the Gladstone area, a Labor bastion, was transferred to the Division of Flynn. This seemingly consolidated the Nationals' hold on the seat. While National incumbent Paul Neville was nearly swept out in 2007 due in part to Queensland swinging heavily to Labor under Kevin Rudd, he survived in part due to Labor-leaning Gladstone being replaced with conservative-leaning Hervey Bay. He was reelected with a large enough swing in 2010 to turn Hinkler into a safe seat for the merged Liberal National Party.

Members

Image Member Party Term Notes
  Bryan Conquest
(1930–2018) 		Nationals 1 December 1984 –
11 July 1987 		Lost seat
  Brian Courtice
(1950–) 		Labor 11 July 1987 –
13 March 1993 		Lost seat
  Paul Neville
(1940–2019) 		Nationals 13 March 1993 –
5 August 2013 		Retired
  Keith Pitt
(1969–) 		7 September 2013 –
present 		Served as minister under Morrison. Incumbent

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Hinkler
Hervey Bay and Great Sandy Strait from orbit
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in Queensland § Hinkler.
2022 Australian federal election: Hinkler
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Keith Pitt 42,720 42.13 −3.90
Labor Jason Scanes 23,634 23.31 +0.38
Independent Jack Dempsey 13,236 13.05 +13.05
One Nation Zak Menhennett 8,837 8.71 −6.09
United Australia Kristie Nash 7,417 7.31 +2.93
Greens Andrew McLean 5,562 5.48 +1.76
Total formal votes 101,406 96.73 +4.55
Informal votes 3,431 3.27 −4.55
Turnout 104,837 89.49 −3.21
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Keith Pitt 60,918 60.07 −4.43
Labor Jason Scanes 40,488 39.93 +4.43
Liberal National hold Swing −4.43
Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Hinkler in the 2022 federal election. checkY indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner.
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Primary vote results in Hinkler (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)   Liberal National/National
  Liberal
  Labor   Greens   Australian Democrats   One Nation   Palmer United/United Australia Party   Independent
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Primary vote results in Hinkler (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)

Notes

  1. ^ Member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland sitting with the federal parliamentary National Party.

References

  1. Muller, Damon (14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  2. Hinkler, QLD, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Queensland
Liberal National (21)
Liberal (15)
National (6)
Labor (5)
Greens (3)
Katter's Australian (1)
Abolished

25°10′59″S 152°23′06″E / 25.183°S 152.385°E / -25.183; 152.385

Categories: