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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Kooyong, Victoria
Eastern Melbourne: Balwyn, Canterbury, Hawthorn, Kew
Sitting member: Hon Josh Frydenberg (Liberal), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 100,018
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.1%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Helen McLeod
Australian Greens |
2. Hon Josh Frydenberg
Liberal Party |
3. Marg D'Arcy
Australian Labor Party |
4. Dr Angelina Zubac
Independent |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Kooyong has existed since Federation, and has always taken in Melbourne's prosperous inner eastern suburbs, based originally on Kew and Hawthorn. Successive redistributions have extended the seat to the east but have not changed its social composition or its political alignment. It has one of the country's highest levels of median family income and highest proportions of people in professional occupations. It also has a fairly high level of families with dependent children, but a much lower rate of dwellings being purchased. This is an electorate of affluent, home-owning upper middle-class families.
Kooyong is a traditional "leadership seat" for the non-Labor parties. It has never come close to electing a Labor member, but did spoil its perfect record of loyalty to the non-Labor parties once, by electing an independent liberal in 1922. That was John Latham, who went to be Leader of the Nationalist Party.
Kooyong's most illustrious member has been Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister from 1939 1941 and from 1949 to 1966, and founder of the modern Liberal Party. His successor Andrew Peacock was twice leader of the Liberal Party but failed to become Prime Minister. He was succeeded by Petro Georgiou, a former state director of the Liberal Party and senior adviser to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Georgiou found himself out of sympathy with the Howard government and became a leading backbench dissident. He retired in 2010.
Josh Frydenberg, Liberal MP for Kooyong since 2010, is a lawyer who was an adviser to John Howard and Alexander Downer, and later a director of Deutsche Bank. He was a parliamentary secretary from 2013 and is now Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia. He is the first Jewish member of the House from the non-Labor side since 1906. The Labor candidate is Marg D'Arcy, a community health worker.
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