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Location: Melbourne: Deer Park, Keilor, St Albans, Taylors Lakes Division named for: Rt Hon Sir John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia 1968-71 Median weekly family income: $963 (57th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 37.0% (5th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 15.9% (144th highest) Persons employed in manufacturing: 23.5% (3rd highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 6.8% (143rd highest) Couple families with dependent children: 48.3% (5th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 33.3% (29th highest) Sitting member: Hon Brendan O'Connor (Labor), elected (for Burke) 2001, (for Gorton) 2004, 2007 Born: 2 March 1962, Britain. Career: Assistant national secretary Australian Services Union. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry 2006-07. Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industrial Relations 2006-07. Minister for Employment Participation from 3 December 2007 2001 two-party majority: Labor 20.2 (notional) Effect of 2004 redistribution: New seat 2004 two-party majority: Labor 14.9 2007 two-party majority: Labor 21.2 
2004 enrolment: 92,309 2007 enrolment: 104,462 (+13.2%) Gorton was created in 2004, in the heart of Melbourne's heavily working-class and "ethnic" western suburbs. It replaced the old seat of Burke, but cannot be regarded as the same seat renamed, since it inherited only 54% of Burke's voters (the rest came from Calwell and Gellibrand). Gorton has one of the highest proportions of people employed in manufacturing, and one of the lowest of people in professional occupations. It has one of the highest proportion of people born in non English speaking countries of any electorate, and the fifth highest level of families with dependent children. It is thus an electorate of young working-class families, and a low-income mortgage belt seat. There was a substantial swing to the Liberals in 2004, but this was more than recouped in 2007, with swings to Labor in every booth. Labor polled more than 60% of the two-party vote at every booth except Keilor, polling over 80% in Deer Park Central, Deer Park West, Glengala South, Kings Park and Movelle. The Liberals won one booth, Keilor, where they polled 55%. Gorton's first member is Labor's Brendan O'Connor, who was member for Burke 2001-04. After the 2007 election O'Connor was promoted from the backbench to a junior ministry. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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