Division of Moreton

Australian federal electoral division

Australian electorate

Moreton
Australian House of Representatives Division

Interactive map of boundaries since the 2019 federal election

Created| 1901
MP| Julie-Ann Campbell
Party| Labor
Namesake| Moreton Bay
Electors| 109,284 (2025)
Area| 109 km2 (42.1 sq mi)
Demographic| Inner metropolitan

The Division of Moreton is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Julie-Ann Campbell of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

## History

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Moreton Bay, the division's namesake

The division was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after Moreton Bay, and originally stretched from southern Brisbane all the way to the Gold Coast.[1] While successive redistributions have left the seat completely landlocked, it has nonetheless retained the name of Moreton, mainly because the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original electorates where possible.[2]

The seat was in the hands of the Liberal Party and its predecessors from 1906 to 1990, though the Liberals' hold on the seat was usually tenuous from the 1950s onward. Labor regained it in 1990, and then until 2013 it was a bellwether seat held by the party of government. Labor narrowly retained the seat in 2013 even as it lost government, marking the first time in over a century that the non-Labor parties had been in government without holding Moreton.

The seat is known for having decided the 1961 federal election. The Liberals only won the seat by 130 votes to give the Coalition a bare one-seat majority; had 93 Communist preferences gone the other way, it would have resulted in a hung parliament.[citation needed]

On its current boundaries, the seat is very multicultural, with significant Asian, South Eastern European, Arab and African population in the southern part of the electorate particularly in the suburbs of Sunnybank, Acacia Ridge, Kuraby and Moorooka.[citation needed]

## Boundaries

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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.[3]

Moreton is located in south east Queensland, and is based in the southern suburbs of the City of Brisbane. The division includes Acacia Ridge, Archerfield, Chelmer, Fairfield, Graceville, Karawatha, Kuraby, MacGregor, Moorooka, Nathan, Oxley, Robertson, Rocklea, Runcorn, Salisbury, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Tennyson, Yeronga, and Yeerongpilly, and parts of Algester, Berrinba, Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Corinda, Drewvale, Eight Mile Plains, Parkinson, Sherwood and Tarragindi.

## Members

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Image  | Member  | Party  | Term  | Notes

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|  | James Wilkinson
(1854–1915) | Independent Labour | 30 March 1901 –
1904  | Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Ipswich. Lost seat
| Labour | 1904 –
12 December 1906
|  | Hugh Sinclair
(1864–1926) | Anti-Socialist | 12 December 1906 –
26 May 1909  | Retired
| Liberal | 26 May 1909 –
17 February 1917
| Nationalist | 17 February 1917 –
3 November 1919
|  | Arnold Wienholt
(1877–1940) | 13 December 1919 –
6 November 1922 | Previously held the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern. Retired. Later elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Fassifern in 1930
|  | Josiah Francis
(1890–1964) | 16 December 1922 –
7 May 1931  | Served as minister under Lyons and Menzies. Retired
| United Australia | 7 May 1931 –
21 February 1945
| Liberal | 21 February 1945 –
4 November 1955
|  | Sir James Killen
(1925–2007) | 10 December 1955 –
15 August 1983  | Served as minister under Gorton, McMahon and Fraser. Resigned to retire from politics
|  | Don Cameron
(1940–) | 5 November 1983 –
24 March 1990 | Previously held the Division of Fadden. Lost seat
|  | Garrie Gibson
(1954-) | Labor | 24 March 1990 –
2 March 1996 | Lost seat
|  | Gary Hardgrave
(1960–) | Liberal | 2 March 1996 –
24 November 2007 | Served as minister under Howard. Lost seat
|  | Graham Perrett
(1966–) | Labor | 24 November 2007 –
28 March 2025 | Retired
|  | Julie-Ann Campbell | Labor | 3 May 2025 –
present  | Incumbent

## Election results

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Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Moreton

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Queensland § Moreton.[edit]

2025 Australian federal election: Moreton[4] Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | %  | ±%

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| Labor | Julie-Ann Campbell | 39,697  | 42.31  | +4.89
| Liberal National | Henry Swindon  | 24,132  | 25.72  | −7.53
| Greens | Remah Naji  | 20,332  | 21.67  | +0.87
| One Nation | Grant Spork  | 2,686  | 2.86  | −0.77
| Trumpet of Patriots | Christian Julius  | 2,328  | 2.48  | +0.89
| People First | Natarsha Billing  | 2,243  | 2.39  | +2.39
| Family First | Melinda Keller  | 1,682  | 1.79  | +1.79
| Citizens | Max Hooper  | 731  | 0.78  | +0.78
Total formal votes  | 93,831  | 95.68  | −1.56
Informal votes  | 4,232  | 4.32  | +1.56
Turnout | 98,063  | 89.75  | +0.89
Two-party-preferred result
| Labor | Julie-Ann Campbell | 62,014  | 66.09  | +7.00
| Liberal National | Henry Swindon  | 31,817  | 33.91  | −7.00
| Labor hold | Swing | +7.00 |

## References

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1. ^ "Crikey - On politics, media, business, the environment and life".
2. ^ "Guidelines for naming divisions". Australian Electoral Commission. 20 July 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
3. ^ Muller, Damon (14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
4. ^ Moreton, Qld, 2025 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.

## External links

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* Division of Moreton (Qld) — Australian Electoral Commission

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