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The Division of Chisholm ( ) is an Australian Electoral Division in
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located in the eastern suburbs of
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. The Division was created in 1949 and is named after
Caroline Chisholm Caroline Chisholm ( ; born Caroline Jones; 30 May 1808 – 25 March 1877) was an English humanitarian known mostly for her support of immigrant female and family welfare in Australia. She is commemorated on 16 May in the Calendar of saints (Ch ...
, a social worker and promoter of women's immigration. The Division is an Inner Metropolitan area. The Division's current MP is
Carina Garland Carina Mary Lindsay Garland (born 1982) is an Australian politician. She has served as a Australian Labor Party, Labor MP for Division of Chisholm, Chisholm since the 2022 Australian federal election. Early life and education Garland was born i ...
of the
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. The constituency is considered a key
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targeted by both Labor and the
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.


Geography

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. 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. Since 2022, the Division has encompassed the suburbs of Ashwood,
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, Blackburn South, Box Hill, Box Hill South, Burwood,
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, Glen Waverley,
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,
Mount Waverley Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Mount Waverley recorded a population of 35,340 at the 2021 census. It ...
,
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, Syndal and
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. Additionally, the Division also includes parts of
Chadstone Chadstone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Chadstone recorded a population of 9,552 at the 2021 census. Landmarks in ...
, Clayton, Mulgrave and Oakleigh. The Division of Chisholm consists of part of the local government areas of Monash City Council and
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.


Demographics

The Division of Chisholm has a diverse population, with around 54% of its residents being born overseas. Approximately 55% of the population speak a language other than
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at home, with
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making around 30% of the population. The seat has the largest Chinese community of any electorate in all of Australia.


History

On its original boundaries, it was a comfortably safe Liberal seat centred on
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. However, successive redistributions from 1980 onward have moved the electorate south-east, taking in strongly
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-voting suburbs to balance out the relatively affluent Liberal-leaning suburbs in the north of the seat, and making the seat marginal. The first member for Chisholm, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes, was one of Australia's most distinguished soldiers and a former Olympian, who held the seat until his death on 31 July 1970. Labor finally took the seat in the 1983 landslide that brought
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to power, only to lose it in
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became the second Labor member ever to win it in 1998 election and held it until her retirement in
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Julia Banks Julia Helen Banks is an Australian lawyer and politician. Elected as the member for Chisholm in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2016 federal election, Banks was the only candidate for the governing Liberal-National Coalition ...
won the seat for the Liberals at the 2016 election, becoming the only Liberal challenger to take a seat from Labor at that election. Taking this seat off Labor turned out to be crucial in ensuring the Coalition retaining its majority; it meant they had 76 seats, as opposed to the 75 they would have had if Labor had retained this seat. On 27 November 2018, Banks resigned from the Liberal Party due to disaffection with the party resulting from the
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which removed
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as Prime Minister and the treatment of women within the party. Banks announced she would sit on the crossbench as an independent, but guarantee
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to the
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Gladys Liu Gladys Liu (, ; born 6 April 1964) is a Hong Kong-born Australian politician who currently serves as a councillor of the City of Melbourne. She previously represented the Division of Chisholm in Victoria for the Liberal Party from her election ...
won Chisholm in the 2019 election for the Liberal Party against Jennifer Yang by less than 0.6%, becoming the first
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to enter the lower house. In 2022, Labor's Dr Carina Garland won the seat from Liberal incumbent Liu. The loss of the seat in 2022 to Labor has been attributed to the notably large swings against the Liberal Party among
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voters which has cost the Liberal Party many key seats.


Members


Election results


References


External links


Division of Chisholm - Australian Electoral Commission
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chisholm, Division of Electoral divisions of Australia Electoral divisions of Australia in Victoria Constituencies established in 1949 1949 establishments in Australia City of Whitehorse City of Monash Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne Caroline Chisolm