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Australian federal election, 2022
Division of Gippsland, Victoria
Named for: Regional name (after Sir George Gipps (1791-1847), Governor of NSW 1838-46). Named in 1840 by Paul Strzelecki.
Eastern Victoria: Bairnsdale, Morwell, Sale, Traralgon
State seats: All of
Gippsland East and
Morwell, parts of
Gippsland South
Local government areas: All of
East Gippsland and
Wellington, parts of
Latrobe
Borders with:
Eden-Monaro,
Indi and
Monash
Enrolment at 2019 election: 110,581
Enrolment at 2022 election: 114,568 (+03.6)
1999 republic referendum: No 65.2
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 60.2
Sitting member: Hon Darren Chester (Nationals):
Elected 2008 by-election, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019
2007 Nationals majority over Labor: 5.9%
2008 by-election Nationals majority over Labor: 12.0%
2010 Nationals majority over Labor: 11.5%
2013 Nationals majority over Labor: 15.8%
2016 Nationals majority over Labor: 18.4%
2019 Nationals majority over Labor: 16.7%
2019 notional Nationals majority over Labor: 16.7%
Nationals two-party vote 1983-2019
Status: Very safe Nationals
Best Nationals booths, two-party vote: Nambrok (87.0), Omeo (82.3), Devon North (82.2),
Bundalagua (81.0), Newmerella (80.9)
Best Labor booths, two-party vote: Yallourn North (55.2), Churchill Central (54.6), Morwell (52.9),
Churchill (51.9), Morwell Estate (51.0)
2019 results
Statistics and history
Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Greg Hansford
Pauline Hanson's One Nation |
2. Hon Darren Chester
The Nationals |
3. Gregory Foster
United Australia Party |
4. Marjorie Thorpe
Australian Greens |
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5. Jim McDonald
Liberal Democrats |
6. Jannette Langley
Australian Labor Party |
Candidate websites:
Hon Darren Chester
Gregory Foster
Greg Hansford
Jannette Langley
Jim McDonald
Marjorie Thorpe
Division of Gippsland
Gippsland has existed since Federation and has always occupied the eastern third of Victoria, the heavily agricultural
Gippsland region. Before 1949 the seat included the industrial towns of the Latrobe Valley, and Labor nearly won it in
1943. The 1949 redistribution moved the Valley into McMillan, cutting the Labor vote. But as Gippsland's share of
Victoria's population has declined, the seat has had to expand, firstly into the dairying country of South Gippsland,
and in 2004 back into the Valley, when the 2004 redistribution moved Morwell and Traralgon from McMillan into Gippsland.
Morwell was a strongly Labor town, Traralgon usually a moderately Labor one, although the Labor vote in both has declined
as the Valley has deindustrialised in recent years. The seat has not been changed by the 2021 redistribution.
Gippsland has never elected a Labor member. It has been held by the Country Party and its successor the Nationals
continuously since 1922, longer than any other seat. Past members have included ministers
Tom Paterson and
Peter Nixon.
Peter McGauran won the seat for the Nationals 1983, and was a minister in the Howard Government. He resigned after the
2007 election defeat.
Darren Chester, Nationals MP for Gippsland since the 2008 by-election which followed McGauran's resignation, was a
newspaper and television journalist, a marketing consultant, and chief of staff to Victorian Nationals leader
Peter Ryan before his election. As one of the Nationals' younger talents, he was promoted rapidly. He was on the opposition
front bench from 2010 and in 2016 entered Cabinet as Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. In December 2017 he was
sacked for no apparent reason by Nationals leader
Barnaby Joyce: part of the pattern of erratic behaviour that soon cost
Joyce his job. Chester was rehabilitated by
Michael McCormack and became Minister for Veterans' Affairs and
Minister for Defence Personnel. But when Joyce regained the Nationals leadership in June 2021, Chester was again
dropped from the ministry. In October Chester announced his withdrawal from the National Party room. The Labor candidate is
Jannette Langley, a public servant. The Greens candidate is
Marjorie Thorpe, whose occupation is not stated.
Demographics:
Median weekly household income: $1,058 (Australia $1,438)
People over 65: 21.7% (Australia 15.8%)
Australian born: 79.4% (Australia 66.7%)
Non-English-speaking households: 6.7% (Australia 22.2%)
Catholics 20.3% (Australia 22.6%)
No religion 35.0% (Australia 29.6%)
University graduates: 11.5% (Australia 22.0%)
Professional and managerial employment: 29.2% (Australia 35.2%)
Employed in manufacturing and construction: 25.9% (Australia 22.9%)
Employed in agriculture: 10.2% (Australia 3.3%)
Paying a mortgage: 32.4% (Australia 34.5%)
Renting: 24.0% (Australia 30.9%)
Traditional families: 25.2% (Australia 32.8%)
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