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Location: Melbourne: Box Hill, Burwood, Clayton North, Mt Waverley Division named for: Caroline Chisholm, pioneer of female migration to Australia Median weekly family income: $1,067 (39th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 26.1% (20th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 35.8% (22nd highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 17.0% (16th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 35.7% (111th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 22.1% (108th highest) Sitting member: Anna Burke (Labor), elected 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 1 January 1966, Melbourne. Career: Industrial Officer Victorian Roads and Victorian Institute of Technology, National Industrial Officer Finance Sector Union Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees from 12 February 2008 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 02.6 1998 two-party majority: Labor 02.1 2001 two-party majority: Labor 02.8 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 00.1 shift to Liberal 2004 two-party majority: Labor 02.7 2007 two-party majority: Labor 07.4 
2004 enrolment: 84,907 2007 enrolment: 86,128 (+01.4%) Chisholm was created in 1949, and at that time was centred on Camberwell and was a safe Liberal seat. Successive redistributions have pushed it east and south, and now it contains none of its original territory. Today most of its votes are cast in Box Hill, Burwood and Clayton. The 1990 redistribution extended it as far south as Westall, into solidly Labor voting territory, tipping the balance towards Labor. Chisholm has a high median income level and a high proportion of people in professional occupations for a Labor-held seat: the decisive factor may be the high level of people born in non English speaking countries, particularly the 5.4% born in South-East Asia. Dr Michael Wooldridge won Chisholm for the Liberals in 1987, but by 1998 it was seen as increasingly unsafe, and he moved to outer suburban Casey. The seat then passed to Labor's Anna Burke, who has held it since and seems to have entrenched herself. In 2007 Labor polled 70% of the two-party vote in Clayton East, and more than 65% in Clayton, Clayton North, Huntingdale and two booths in Oakleigh, while the Liberals won only Mount Waverley (51%) and Surrey Hills. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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