Division of Aston

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Aston
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Aston 2022.png
Division of Aston in Victoria, as of the 2022 federal election
Created1984
MP Mary Doyle
Party Labor
Namesake Tilly Aston
Electors 109,705 (2022)
Area113 km2 (43.6 sq mi)
DemographicOuter metropolitan

The Division of Aston is an Australian Federal Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. The division is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, coextensive with the City of Knox local government area. The suburbs in the division include Bayswater, Boronia, Ferntree Gully, Knoxfield, Rowville, Scoresby, The Basin, Wantirna and Wantirna South; and parts of Lysterfield, Sassafras and Upper Ferntree Gully.

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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. [1]

History

Tilly Aston, the division's namesake Matilda Aston.jpg
Tilly Aston, the division's namesake

The division was created in 1984 and is named after Tilly Aston, a blind writer and teacher who helped found the Library of the Victorian Association of Braille Writers in 1894.

The current for Aston is Mary Doyle of the Australian Labor Party, elected on 1 April 2023 in the 2023 Aston by-election.

A typical "mortgage belt" seat, it was held by the Labor Party until 1990, but was from then until 2023 it was held by the Liberal Party. At the 2022 Australian federal election it was the Liberal Party’s safest seat in metropolitan Melbourne. [2] However, the seat became marginal at that election, with the Liberals experiencing a 11.64% drop in their primary vote and a 7.32% drop in their two-party vote. The very next year, the Australian Labor Party regained the seat from the Liberal Party following the 2023 by-election. [3]

Aston has one of the biggest Chinese-Australian communities in Victoria, with more than 22,500 Chinese residents, or about 14 per cent of the electorate's population. [4] [5]

Members

ImageMemberPartyTermNotes
  Labor Placeholder.png John Saunderson
(1948–)
Labor 1 December 1984
24 March 1990
Previously held the Division of Deakin. Lost seat
  Liberal Placeholder.png Peter Nugent
(1938–2001)
Liberal 24 March 1990
24 April 2001
Died in office
  Chris Pearce.jpg Chris Pearce
(1963–)
14 July 2001
19 July 2010
Retired
  Alan Tudge 2018.png Alan Tudge
(1971–)
21 August 2010
17 February 2023 [6]
Served as minister under Turnbull and Morrison. Resigned in order to retire from politics.
  MCURRIE20230401 1 (cropped2).jpg Mary Doyle
(1970–)
Labor 1 April 2023
present
Incumbent

Election results

2023 Aston by-election [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Mary Doyle 37,31840.87+8.32
Liberal Roshena Campbell 35,68039.07–3.98
Greens Angelica Di Camillo9,25610.14–1.94
Independent Maya Tesa6,4267.04+7.04
Fusion Owen Miller2,6372.89+2.89
Total formal votes91,31796.70−0.03
Informal votes3,1123.30+0.03
Turnout 94,42985.64−6.86
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Mary Doyle 48,91553.57+6.38
Liberal Roshena Campbell 42,40246.43–6.38
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +6.38
Primary vote results in Aston (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted.)
  Liberal
  Labor
  Greens
  Australian Democrats
  Palmer United/United Australia Party
  Independent
Two-candidate-preferred results in Aston

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