Division of Moncrieff

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Moncrieff
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Moncrieff 2019.png
Division of Moncrieff
Interactive map of boundaries since the 2019 federal election
Created1984
MP Angie Bell
Party Liberal [a]
Namesake Gladys Moncrieff
Electors 122,636 (2022)
Area100 km2 (38.6 sq mi)
DemographicProvincial

The Division of Moncrieff is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Angie Bell of the Liberal Party.

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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

Gladys Moncrieff, the division's namesake Gladys Moncrieff 2.jpg
Gladys Moncrieff, the division's namesake

The division was created in 1984 and is named after Gladys Moncrieff, an Australian singer who resided in the Gold Coast.

Moncrieff is based on Surfers Paradise and the central portion of the Gold Coast. While the Gold Coast has always been a rather conservative area, Surfers Paradise is considered particularly conservative even by Gold Coast standards. As a result, Moncrieff has been a comfortably safe Liberal seat for its entire existence. Indeed, most of the area has been represented by centre-right MPs without interruption since 1906; the Surfers Paradise area was part of Moreton before 1949, and then part of McPherson from 1949 to 1984. The Liberals have never won less than 59 percent of the two-party vote, and from 1993 until 2019 have won enough primary votes to retain the seat without the need for preferences.

It is currently the ninth-safest Coalition seat in Australia and the third-safest for either side of politics in Queensland, with a 17-point swing needed for Labor to win it.

Although Labor to date has never won Moncrieff, it did win the primary vote in 1984 and 1987. This was due to the Liberal and National parties fielding candidates against each other and therefore splitting the anti-Labor primary vote. On both those occasions, however, the Liberals retained the seat after National preferences flowed overwhelmingly to them.

In 2022, sitting Liberal National MP Angie Bell was reelected with less than 50% of the primary vote, the first time that a non-Labor candidate has done so without the presence of a second major party non-Labor candidate.

Members

ImageMemberPartyTermNotes
  Kathy Martin 1974 (cropped).jpg Kathy Sullivan
(1942–)
Liberal 1 December 1984
8 October 2001
Previously a member of the Senate. Retired
  Steven Ciobo Portrait 2013.jpg Steven Ciobo
(1974–)
10 November 2001
19 July 2010
Served as minister under Turnbull and Morrison. Retired
  Liberal National 19 July 2010 –
11 April 2019
  LNP Placeholder.png Angie Bell
(1968–)
18 May 2019
present
Incumbent

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Moncrieff [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal National Angie Bell 45,10445.94−5.58
Labor Glen Palmer20,43020.81−0.75
Greens April Broadbent11,85012.07+2.39
One Nation Leeanne Schultz6,9817.11+0.67
United Australia Diane Happ5,4825.58+1.86
Liberal Democrats Diane Demetre4,3054.38+2.42
Animal Justice Sonia Berry-Law2,3842.43−1.43
Informed Medical Options Timothy Cudmore9971.02+1.02
Federation James Tayler6450.66+0.66
Total formal votes98,17894.22+0.66
Informal votes6,0205.78−0.66
Turnout 104,19885.03−3.17
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Angie Bell 60,08061.19−4.17
Labor Glen Palmer38,09838.81+4.17
Liberal National hold Swing −4.17
Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Moncrieff in the 2022 federal election. Y indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner. 2022 Australian federal election Moncrieff alluvial diagram.svg
Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Moncrieff in the 2022 federal election. Light green check.svgY indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner.
Primary vote results in Moncrieff (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)
  Liberal National/Liberal
  National
  Labor
  Greens
  Australian Democrats
  Family First
  One Nation
  Palmer United/United Australia Party
Two-candidate-preferred results in Moncrieff

Notes

  1. Member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland sitting with the federal parliamentary Liberal Party.

References

  1. Muller, Damon (14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  2. Moncrieff, QLD, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.

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