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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Flinders, Victoria
South-east of Melbourne: Hastings, Mount Martha, Rosebud, Somerville
Sitting member: Hon Greg Hunt (Liberal), elected 2001
Enrolment at close of rolls: 115,356
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.8%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Yvonne Gentle
Rise Up Australia |
2. Shane Lewis
Independent |
3. Willisa Hogarth
Australian Greens |
4. Carolyn Gleixner
Australian Labor Party |
5. Hon Greg Hunt
Liberal Party |
6. Ben Wild
Animal Justice Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Flinders has existed since Federation, and has always occupied the Mornington Peninsula area south of Melbourne. At various times it has also taken in large areas of the southern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne and parts of western Gippsland. On its current boundaries most of its voters live in the tourism and retirement towns on the Peninsula, from Mount Martha to Portsea. This explains both the electorate's low median family income and its high proportion of over-65s. It also takes in Phillip Island and some sparsely populated areas of West Gippsland.
In the 1970s and '80s, when the seat included the Labor-voting area of Frankston, it was highly marginal. But Labor has won Flinders only three times, including the famous upset in 1929 when Nationalist Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was defeated. Apart from Bruce, eminent members for Flinders have included Liberal Cabinet ministers Sir Phillip Lynch and Peter Reith.
Greg Hunt, Liberal MP for Flinders since 2001, the son of longtime state minister Alan Hunt, is a lawyer, and was an adviser to Alexander Downer before his election. He was a parliamentary secretary in the last term of the Howard Government, on the opposition frontbench from 2007 to 2013, and has been Minister for the Environment in the Abbott and Turnbull Governments - never a popular portfolio in Coalition governments. The Labor candidate will be Carolyn Gleixner, who works in
construction management.
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