Division of Wentworth

This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For the New South Wales state electorate, see Electoral district of Wentworth.

Wentworth Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wentworth (green) in New South Wales
Created	1901
MP	Allegra Spender
Party	Independent
Namesake	William Wentworth
Electors	109,262 (2013)
Area	30 km2 (11.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

William Charles Wentworth 1872

The Division of Wentworth is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It was one of the 75 divisions set up in 1901 for the first federal election. The division is named after William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872), an Australian explorer and politician. In 1813 he crossed the Blue Mountains with Blaxland and Lawson.

The Division, in terms of area, is the smallest in Australia. It includes the suburbs of Bellevue Hill, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Bondi Junction, Bronte, Centennial Park, Clovelly, Darlinghurst, Darling Point, Dover Heights, Double Bay, East Sydney, Edgecliff, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, North Bondi, Paddington, Point Piper, Potts Point, Queens Park, Rose Bay, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay, Waverley, Woollahra and Woolloomooloo; and parts of Randwick.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Sir William McMillan	Free Trade	1901–1903
	Willie Kelly	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1903–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1919
	Walter Marks	Nationalist	1919–1929
		Independent	1929
		Australian	1929–1930
		Independent	1930-1931
		United Australia	1931
	(Sir) Eric Harrison	United Australia	1931–1944
		Liberal	1944–1956
	Les Bury	Liberal	1956–1974
	Bob Ellicott	Liberal	1974–1981
	Peter Coleman	Liberal	1981–1987
	John Hewson	Liberal	1987–1995
	Andrew Thomson	Liberal	1995–2001
	Peter King	Liberal	2001–2004
		Independent	2004
	Malcolm Turnbull	Liberal	2004–2018
	Kerryn Phelps	Independent	2018–2019
	Dave Sharma	Liberal	2019–present

Eric Harrison was a minister in the governments of Joseph Lyons and Robert Menzies. He was also deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. He resign in 1956 and became Australian High Commissioner in London. Bob Ellicott was Attorney-General from 1975–1977. He also served as Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Capital Territory. He resigned in 1981 to become a judge on the Federal Court of Australia. John Hewson and Malcolm Turnbull both served as Leaders of the Opposition, and Turnbull served as Prime Minister from 2015 to 2018. Peter King lost Liberal Party support, and decided to become an independent. He was banned from the Liberal Party for 10 years.

After Malcolm Turnbull was removed as Prime Minister by the Liberal Party he resigned from the Parliament. A by-election was held for the seat which was one by an independent candidate, Kerryn Phelps.

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Wentworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dave Sharma	35,995	40.48	−6.96
	Independent	Allegra Spender	31,810	35.77	+35.77
	Labor	Tim Murray	9,654	10.86	−0.09
	Greens	Dominic Wy Kanak	7,410	8.33	+0.80
	United Australia	Natalie Dumer	1,813	2.04	+1.34
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Lewkovitz	1,346	1.51	+1.51
	One Nation	Dean Fisher	895	1.01	+1.01
Total formal votes			88,923	97.50	+0.49
Informal votes			2,277	2.50	−0.49
Turnout			91,200	87.93	−1.47
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Liberal	Dave Sharma	49,727	55.92	−3.93
	Labor	Tim Murray	39,196	44.08	+3.93
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Allegra Spender	48,186	54.19	+54.19
	Liberal	Dave Sharma	40,737	45.81	−5.50
	Independent gain from Liberal		Swing	+54.19

Other websites

• Division of Wentworth – Australian Electoral Commission