Division of Burt

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Burt
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Burt 2022.png
Division of Burt in Western Australia, as of the 2021 redistribution.
Created2016
MP Matt Keogh
Party Labor
NamesakeBurt family of Western Australia
Electors 113,024 (2022)
Area172 km2 (66.4 sq mi)
DemographicOuter metropolitan [1]

The Division of Burt is an Australian electoral division in Perth in the state of Western Australia.

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Burt contains Perth's growing southeastern suburban corridor and covers 190 square kilometers. [2] Major suburbs include Armadale, Gosnells, Thornlie, Kenwick, Huntingdale, Harrisdale, Piara Waters and Southern River. [2] Burt is a middle- and working-class electorate with a high rate of Trade Union membership. [3]

The current and inaugural MP is Matt Keogh, a member of the Australian Labor Party. He has held the seat since its inception in 2016.

History

Septimus Burt, whose family is the division's namesake Septimus Burt.jpg
Septimus Burt, whose family is the division's namesake

The division was created in 2015 and was named after the Burt family, specifically Sir Archibald Burt, Septimus Burt and Sir Francis Burt. [4] The division is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Perth and covers areas that had previously been represented by the divisions of Canning, Hasluck and Tangney. [5]

The seat was first contested at the 2016 federal election. Based on the results from the 2013 federal election the division was created as a notionally fairly safe Liberal with a notional two-party preferred margin of 6.1 percent. [6] However, based on federal polling indicating a large nine percent two-party swing to Labor since the last election, Burt was tipped as one of several seats that could have potentially fallen to Labor at the 2016 federal election. [7] Additionally, much of the seat's territory is represented by Labor at state level.

The seat was won by Labor's Matt Keogh, who had been the Labor candidate in the 2015 Canning by-election, on a swing of over 13 percent, turning it from fairly safe Liberal to fairly safe Labor.

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. [8]

In August 2021, the Australian Electoral Commission announced that the suburb of Canning Vale would be transferred from Burt to the seat of Tangney, while Burt would gain the suburbs of Kenwick, Maddington, Orange Grove and part of Martin from the seat of Canning. These boundary changes took place as of the 2022 election. [9]

The seat presently comprises considerable portions of the City of Gosnells and the City of Armadale. Suburbs presently included are: [10]

City of Armadale

City of Gosnells

Members

ImageMemberPartyTermNotes
  Matt Keogh 2023.jpg Matt Keogh
(1981–)		 Labor 2 July 2016 –
present		Incumbent. Currently a minister under Albanese

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in Western Australia § Burt.[ edit ]
2022 Australian federal election: Burt [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Matt Keogh 47,26851.63+10.51
Liberal David Goode21,00922.95−9.49
Greens Daniel Garlett9,0049.84+0.27
One Nation Travis Carter4,4364.85−1.25
Christians Warnar Spyker3,4283.74+0.06
Western Australia Stephen Phelan2,3902.61+1.40
United Australia Joshua Mccurry2,2742.48+0.24
Australian Federation Michele Castle1,7411.90+1.90
Total formal votes91,55094.16+0.82
Informal votes5,6755.84−0.82
Turnout 97,22586.10−0.89
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Matt Keogh 59,70465.21+9.71
Liberal David Goode31,84634.79−9.71
Labor hold Swing +9.71
Primary vote results in Burt (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)
  Labor
  Liberal
  Greens
  Australian Christians
  One Nation
Two-party-preferred vote results in Burt

Notes

  1. ↑ "Profile of the electoral division of Burt (WA)". Australian Electoral Commission . Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Burt - Federal Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. ↑ "2016 Burt, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  4. ↑ Proposed Redistribution of Western Australia into Electoral Divisions (PDF) (Report). Redistribution Committee for Western Australia. August 2015. p.  17.
  5. ↑ "2015 Western Australian Federal redistribution - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News.
  6. ↑ Federal Election 2016: Electoral Pendulum ABC.net.au. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Bowe, William (11 May 2016). "Day Two: Essential, Lonergan, BludgerTrack and More." PollBludger.net. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  8. ↑ Muller, Damon (14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  9. ↑ https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Redistributions/2021/wa/files/redistribution-of-western-australia-into-electoral-divisions-august-2021.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  10. ↑ "Profile of the electoral division of Burt (WA)". Australian Electoral Commission . Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Burt, WA, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.

Coordinates: 32°6′30″S115°58′8″E / 32.10833°S 115.96889°E / -32.10833; 115.96889

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