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The Division of Wentworth is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. The division is named after William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872), an Australian explorer and statesman. In 1813 he accompanied Blaxland and Lawson on their crossing of the Blue Mountains.

Wentworth is the second-smallest geographical electoral division in the Parliament with an area of just {{convert|38|km2}}, covering Woolloomooloo along the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to Watsons Bay and down the coast to Clovelly—an area largely coextensive with Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. The western boundary runs along Oxford Street, Flinders Street and South Dowling Street, then eastward along Alison Road to Randwick Racecourse and Clovelly Beach. It includes the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Ben Buckler, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Bronte, Centennial Park, Darling Point, Double Bay, Dover Heights, Edgecliff, Moore Park, North Bondi, Paddington, Point Piper, Queens Park, Rose Bay, Rushcutters Bay, Tamarama, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Waverley, and Woollahra; as well as parts of Clovelly, Darlinghurst, East Sydney, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Potts Point, and Randwick.

Historically considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia, Wentworth is one of only two original federation divisions in New South Wales, along with the Division of North Sydney, which have never been held by the Australian Labor Party, though Labor candidate Jessie Street came within 1.6 percent of winning Wentworth at the 1943 election landslide. The electorate is the nation's wealthiest, contains the nation's largest Jewish population and contains the nation's fifth-largest number of same-sex couples.^[1]

The previous member for Wentworth since the 2004 election was Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia from September 2015 until August 2018. Both Turnbull and a previous member John Hewson had been Opposition Leaders, with both taking the leadership of the Liberal Party in their respective second terms as members for Wentworth.

In August 2018, a challenge by Peter Dutton led to two Liberal leadership spills. Following the second spill on 24 August 2018, Treasurer Scott Morrison defeated Dutton in a leadership ballot. Turnbull did not nominate as a candidate, and immediately resigned as Prime Minister. On 31 August 2018 Turnbull resigned from Parliament,^[2] triggering a 2018 Wentworth by-election,^[3] which was won by independent candidate Kerryn Phelps.^[4]

Members

Member

Party

Term

Free Trade}}|

Sir William McMillan

Free Trade

1901–1903

Free Trade}}|

Willie Kelly

Free Trade, Anti-Socialist

1903–1909

Commonwealth Liberal}}|

Commonwealth Liberal

1909–1917

Nationalist}}|

Nationalist

1917–1919

Nationalist}}|

Walter Marks

Nationalist

1919–1929

Independent}}|

Independent

1929

Australian Party}}|

Australian

1929–1930

Independent}}|

Independent

1930–1931

UAP}}|

United Australia

1931

UAP}}|

Sir Eric Harrison

United Australia

1931–1944

Liberal}}|

Liberal

1944–1956

Liberal}}|

Les Bury

Liberal

1956–1974

Liberal}}|

Bob Ellicott

Liberal

1974–1981

Liberal}}|

Peter Coleman

Liberal

1981–1987

Liberal}}|

John Hewson

Liberal

1987–1995

Liberal}}|

Andrew Thomson

Liberal

1995–2001

Liberal}}|

Peter King

Liberal

2001–2004

Independent}}|

Independent

2004

Liberal}}|

Malcolm Turnbull

Liberal

2004–2018

Independent}}|

Kerryn Phelps

Independent

2018–present

Election results

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.pollbludger.net/by-elections/fed-2018-10-wentworth.htm |title=2018 Wentworth by-election |publisher=The Poll Bludger |author=William Bowe |accessdate=30 October 2018}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/27/malcolm-turnbull-to-trigger-byelection-by-quitting-parliament-on-friday|title=Malcolm Turnbull to trigger byelection by quitting parliament on Friday|last=Hutchens|first=Gareth|date=2018-08-27|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-08-27}}
3. ^2018 Wentworth by-election guide: Antony Green ABC
4. ^[https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wentworth-by-election-2018/commentary/ Commentary, 2018 Wentworth by-election: Antony Green ABC]
5. ^{{cite web |title=Wentworth, NSW |url=https://results.aec.gov.au/22844/Website/HouseDivisionPage-22844-152.htm |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |accessdate=7 November 2018 |language=en-AU}}
6. ^{{cite web |title=Results - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wentworth-by-election-2018/results/ |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |author=Antony Green |accessdate=21 October 2018 |language=en-AU}}
7. ^Wentworth, NSW, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

Members

Election results

References

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