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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Fenner, Australian Capital Territory
Northern Canberra: Belconnen, Gunghalin, Lyneham, North Canberra
Sitting member: Hon Dr Andrew Leigh (Labor), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 138,847
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.6% (Fraser)
2016 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 12.5%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Hon Dr Andrew Leigh
Australian Labor Party |
2. Andrew Woodman
Independent |
3. Robert Gunning
Liberal Party |
4. Carly Saeedi
Australian Greens |
5. Tim Bohm
Bullet Train For Australia |
2013 results (Fraser)
Statistics and history
Fenner has been created by the 2016 redistribution, and is the seat of Fraser renamed (so that a Victorian seat can be named after Malcolm Fraser at the next redistribution). Fraser was created in 1974, when the old seat of Australian Capital territory was divided in two. It takes in the suburbs north of Lake Burley Griffin, and is slightly more urban and slightly less affluent than Canberra, the seat south of the lake. It also includes the territory of Jervis Bay on the NSW coast, which is the best Liberal booth in the electorate. Because of its high public servant population Fraser has a high proportion of people in professional occupations, but these vote very heavily Labor, making this one of the most affluent Labor-held electorates.
The first two members for Fraser, Ken Fry and John Langmore, were strong leftists and spent their careers as backbench dissidents. Bob McMullan, by contrast, was a Labor insider, a former Labor National Secretary, and was a Cabinet minister in the Keating Government. In the Rudd Government he was made only a parliamentary secretary, and he took the hint and retired in 2010.
Dr Andrew Leigh, Labor MP for Fraser since 2010, is a lawyer who also has a PhD in economics from Harvard. He was a principal adviser at the Treasury and a Professor of Economics at the Australian National University before his election. He also worked as an adviser to Senator Peter Cook. He was briefly a parliamentary secretary at the end of the Gillard Government, and is now shadow assistant treasurer and shadow minister for competition.
The 2016 redistribution has removed the area around the commercial centre of Canberra and transferred it to the seat of Canberra. This has slightly reduced Labor's large majority in this seat. The Liberal candidate is Robert Gunning, who is executive director of the Livestock and Bulk Carriers Association.
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