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The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the inner eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and encompasses the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Balwyn, Canterbury, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The Division was named after an Indigenous Australian word meaning "camp" or "resting place", and shares its name with the suburb of Kooyong, Victoria.
Kooyong is currently a safe Liberal or non-Labor seat. The seat is considered to be the cradle of conservative leadership,[citation needed] with Kooyong hosting various figures of notable political stature, including former Prime Minister Robert Menzies and former Leaders of the Opposition Andrew Peacock and John Latham. The high-profile Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou now comfortably holds the seat. He successfully saw off a challenge from Joshua Frydenberg for Liberal Party preselection for the seat in April 2006.
In the 1990 election, comedian Tim Ferguson of the Doug Anthony All Stars stood as an independent candidate for Kooyong against Andrew Peacock,[1] gaining 3.7% of the vote.[2]
There has been a reduction in the strength of the conservative vote in recent years. After the 2004 federal election, Kooyong held by a smaller margin (in 2004 Two Party Preferred LP 59.58% ALP 40.42%) than the seat of Aston (2004 Two Party Preferred LP 63.15% ALP 36.85%), which was classified as a marginal seat in 2001. The 2007 election, however, saw a large swing to Labor in Aston but almost no swing in Kooyong, restoring Kooyong's position as the safest Liberal seat in metropolitan Melbourne.
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[edit] Election results
| Australian federal election, 2007: Kooyong |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Liberal |
Petro Georgiou |
45,172 |
55.14 |
+0.48 |
|
Labor |
Ken Harvey |
24,599 |
30.03 |
+1.02 |
|
Greens |
Peter Campbell |
9,686 |
11.82 |
-0.72 |
|
Family First |
John Laidler |
1,261 |
1.54 |
+0.16 |
|
Democrats |
David Collyer |
1,056 |
1.29 |
-0.56 |
|
Citizens Electoral Council |
Pierre Curtis |
154 |
0.19 |
-0.37 |
| Total formal votes |
81,928 |
97.90 |
+0.80 |
| Informal votes |
1,756 |
2.10 |
-0.80 |
| Turnout |
83,684 |
94.75 |
+0.49 |
| Two Candidate Preferred Result |
|
Liberal |
Petro Georgiou |
48,775 |
59.53 |
-0.05 |
|
Labor |
Ken Harvey |
33,153 |
40.47 |
+0.05 |
|
Liberal hold |
Swing |
-0.05 |
|
| Australian federal election, 2004: Kooyong |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Liberal |
Petro Georgiou |
43,581 |
54.66 |
-0.42 |
|
Labor |
Tom Wilson |
23,132 |
29.01 |
+2.75 |
|
Greens |
Peter Campbell |
9,997 |
12.54 |
+1.82 |
|
Democrats |
Mary Dettman |
1,472 |
1.85 |
-6.09 |
|
Family First |
John Laidler |
1,099 |
1.38 |
+1.38 |
|
Citizens Electoral Council |
Andrew Reed |
446 |
0.56 |
+0.56 |
| Total formal votes |
79,727 |
97.10 |
-0.33 |
| Informal votes |
2,380 |
2.90 |
+0.33 |
| Turnout |
82,107 |
94.26 |
-1.26 |
| Two Candidate Preferred Result |
|
Liberal |
Petro Georgiou |
47,498 |
59.58 |
-1.36 |
|
Labor |
Tom Wilson |
32,229 |
40.42 |
+1.36 |
|
Liberal hold |
Swing |
-1.36 |
|
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