DARWIN / BRADDON, Tasmania ===================================================================== * Darwin named for: Charles Darwin (1809-82), naturalist (visited Australia 1836) * Braddon named for: Rt Hon Sir Edward Braddon (1829-1904), Tas MP 1879-88, 1893-1901, Premier 1894-99, federal MP 1901-04 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created 1903 Redistributed 1922, 1949, 1955 (renamed Braddon), 1969, 1977, 1984, 1993, 2001, 2010, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903: Emu Bay, Leven, Queenstown, Zeehan 1922: Circular Head, Devonport, Emu Bay, Leven 1949: Devenport, Leven, Emu Bay, Table Cape 1955: Devonport, Emu Bay, Leven, Table Cape 1969: Circular Head, Devonport, Emu Bay, Leven 1977: Circular Head, Emu Bay, Table Cape, Leven 1984: Burnie, Devonport, Ulverstone, Wynyard 1993: Burnie, Devonport, Ulverstone, Wynyard 2001: Burnie, Devonport, Ulverstone, Wynyard 2010: Burnie, Devonport, Queenstown, Wynyard 2018: Burnie, Devonport, Queenstown, Wynyard --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolments --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 16,111 1943 29,850 (+01.8) 1980 53,854 (+06.8) 1906 17,916 (+11.2) 1946 32,436 (+08.7) 1983 54,231 (+00.7) 1910 20,145 (+12.4) 1949* 30,774 (-05.1) 1984* 57,737 (+06.5) 1913 21,322 (+05.8) 1951 31,470 (+02.3) 1987 59,813 (+03.6) 1914 19,921 (-06.6) 1954 34,036 (+08.2) 1990 61,417 (+02.7) 1917 19,043 (-04.4) 1955* 34,180 (+00.4) 1993* 64,357 (+04.8) 1919 18,661 (-02.0) 1958 35,282 (+03.2) 1996 63,449 (-01.4) 1922* 22,526 (+20.7) 1961 36,832 (+04.4) 1998 62,364 (-01.7) 1925 23,211 (+03.0) 1963 37,896 (+02.9) 2001* 67,180 (+07.7) 1928 23,496 (+01.2) 1966 39,747 (+04.9) 2004 69,988 (+04.2) 1929 23,973 (+02.0) 1969* 43,930 (+10.5) 2007 70,999 (+01.4) 1931 24,922 (+04.0) 1972 46,467 (+05.8) 2010* 71,574 (+05.0) 1934 26,326 (+05.6) 1974 51,589 (+11.0) 2013 71,585 (+00.0) 1937 27,540 (+04.6) 1975 53,977 (+04.6) 2016 72,529 (+01.3) 1940 29,311 (+06.4) 1977* 50,443 (-06.5) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two-party majorities --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1903 1906 1910 1913 1914 1917 1917b 1919 1922 1925 +00.7 +09.5 +13.3 +02.1 +06.1 -08.8 -05.8 -04.0 - na -10.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1928 1929 1931 1934 1937 1940 1943 1946 1949 1951 - na -05.9 -19.9 -04.4 -02.5 -09.2 -01.5 -04.2 -06.6 -04.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963 1966 1969 1972 1974 1975 -00.5 -08.9 +00.4 +12.1 +08.6 +07.7 +13.6 +12.9 +04.8 -03.8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1977 1980 1983 1984 1987 1990 1993 1996 1998 2001 -08.2 -05.1 -12.6 -04.6 -07.9 -08.4 -02.9 -05.7 +04.3 +06.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2918b -01.1 +01.4 +07.5 -02.6 +02.2 +02.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Members --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon King O'Malley (Lab, ALP) 1903-17 Aubrey Luck (Lib) 1951-58 Charles Howroyd (Nat) 1917 Ron Davies (ALP) 1958-75 Hon William Spence (Nat) 1917-19 Hon Ray Groom (Lib) 1975-84 George Bell (Nat) 1919-22 Hon Chris Miles (Lib) 1984-98 Joshua Whitsitt (CP) 1922-25 Sid Sidebottom (ALP) 1998-2004 Hon Sir George Bell (Nat, UAP) Mark Baker (Lib) 2004-07 1925-43 Hon Sid Sidebottom (ALP) 2007- Hon Dame Enid Lyons (UAP, Lib) 13 1943-51 Brett Whiteley (Lib) 2013- ---------------------------------------------------------------------