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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Hume, New South Wales
South-west of Sydney: Camden, Crookwell, Goulburn, Picton
Sitting member: Hon Angus Taylor (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 107,211
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.5%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 13.6%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Aoife Champion-Fashoyin
Australian Labor Party |
2. Lindsay Cosgrove
Citizens Electoral Council |
3. Hon Angus Taylor
Liberal Party |
4. Trevor Anthoney
Bullet Train For Australia |
5. Adrian Van Der Byl
Christian Democrats |
6. Michaela Sherwood
Australian Greens |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Hume has existed since Federation, and has always been located in southern regional NSW, but its boundaries have undergone several major changes,
and it now contains none of its original territory. Before 1949 it was based on Albury, Gundagai and Yass, and was usually a non-Labor seat,
although Labor won it in good Labor years. After 1949 Liberal-voting Albury was removed to Farrer, and Hume became a classic marginal seat,
changing hands with every swing: Labor's Arthur Fuller held it for three separate terms.
Since 1984, however, Hume has been drawn to the north-east, acquiring first Goulburn (in 1993) and then affluent Southern Highlands towns like
Picton, Bowral and Moss Vale (the latter two are now in Whitlam). The inclusion of the Highlands towns, which are suburbanising, has raised Hume's
median family income level so that it is one of the highest for any rural seat, and also raised the proportion of people in professional occupations.
Most of the areas now in Hume are solidly conservative, and it is now a fairly safe seat for the non-Labor parties. Labor has not won it since 1972.
Alby Schultz, an outspoken local member and a frequent backbench rebel, held Hume for the Liberals from 1998 until his retirement in 2013.
Angus Taylor, Liberal MP for Hume since 2013, is a lawyer with a masters degree in economics from Oxford, and was a company director before his election.
He has been Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation since February 2016.
The 2016 redistribution has moved Hume even further to the north- east, removing rural Yass and adding semi-suburban territory around Camden and
Bringelly. The seat now has more in common with the old Macarthur than with the old Hume. The Labor candidate is Aoife Champion-Fashoyin*, a lawyer
who is legal consultant and recruitment officer with Pro Fundraising Services Group.
* Her first name is Irish and is pronounced "Eefa."
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