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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Wannon, Victoria
Western Victoria: Hamilton, Maryborough, Portland, Warrnambool
Sitting member: Hon Dan Tehan (Liberal), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 99,213
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 10.1%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Michael Barling
Australian Labor Party |
2. Thomas Campbell
Australian Greens |
3. Hon Dan Tehan
Liberal Party |
4. Bernardine Atkinson
Independent |
5. Michael McCluskey
Independent |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Wannon has existed since Federation, and has always occupied the Western District in the south-western corner of Victoria, one of Australia's
wealthiest agricultural areas, with an economy based on wool-growing. Until the 1950s the area had a large rural working class and also many
small farmers, who provided a voting base for Labor, and the seat was frequently marginal. Since the 1960s it has become increasingly conservative.
It still has a high proportion of its workforce engaged in agriculture, and the lowest proportion of people born in non English-speaking
countries of any electorate. Maryborough and Ararat are still Labor towns, and there is some Labor vote in Portland and Warrnambool, but Hamilton
and the rural parts of the seat are overwhelmingly Liberal.
Wannon's most eminent member has been Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, who won the seat from Labor in 1955 at his second try, and went on to
consolidate the seat for the Liberals, greatly helped by the Labor Split of the 1950s and Labor's demographic decline in the area. He was succeeded
by David Hawker, who was Speaker of the House from 2004 until his retirement in 2010.
Dan Tehan, Liberal MP for Wannon since 2010, is the son of Marie Tehan, who was a state minister in the 1990s. He was a public servant, diplomat and
ministerial adviser before his election. He was also deputy state director of the Victorian Liberal Party. He has been rapidly promoted and is now
Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Materiel. The Labor candidate is Michael Barling, a Warrnambool teacher, who also stood in 2013.
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