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Moncrieff Australian House of Representatives Division
MapInteractive map of boundaries
Created	1984
MP	Angie Bell
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Gladys Moncrieff
Electors	122,636 (2022)
Area	100 km (38.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Provincial

The Division of Moncrieff is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Angie Bell of the Liberal 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

The division was created in 1984 and is named after Gladys Moncrieff, an Australian singer who resided in the Gold Coast.

Moncrieff is based on Surfers Paradise and the central portion of the Gold Coast. While the Gold Coast has always been a rather conservative area, Surfers Paradise is considered particularly conservative even by Gold Coast standards. As a result, Moncrieff has been a comfortably safe Liberal seat for its entire existence. Indeed, most of the area has been represented by centre-right MPs without interruption since 1906; the Surfers Paradise area was part of Moreton before 1949, and then part of McPherson from 1949 to 1984. The Liberals have never won less than 59 percent of the two-party vote, and from 1993 until 2019 have won enough primary votes to retain the seat without the need for preferences.

It is currently the ninth-safest Coalition seat in Australia and the third-safest for either side of politics in Queensland, with a 17-point swing needed for Labor to win it.

Although Labor to date has never won Moncrieff, it did win the primary vote in 1984 and 1987. This was due to the Liberal and National parties fielding candidates against each other and therefore splitting the anti-Labor primary vote. On both those occasions, however, the Liberals retained the seat after National preferences flowed overwhelmingly to them.

In 2022, sitting Liberal National MP Angie Bell was reelected with less than 50% of the primary vote, the first time that a non-Labor candidate has done so without the presence of a second major party non-Labor candidate.

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Kathy Sullivan (1942–)	Liberal	1 December 1984 – 8 October 2001	Previously a member of the Senate. Retired
		Steven Ciobo (1974–)		10 November 2001 – 11 April 2019	Served as minister under Turnbull and Morrison. Retired
						Angie Bell (1968–)	18 May 2019 – present	Incumbent

Election results

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Notes

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

References

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

External links

• Division of Moncrieff (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission

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• Electoral divisions of Australia
• Constituencies established in 1984
• 1984 establishments in Australia
• Federal politics in Queensland
• Surfers Paradise, Queensland