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Australian federal election, 2019
Division of Clark, Tasmania
Central Hobart: Claremont, Glenorchy, Hobart, Moonah, New Town
State seats: All of Clark (currently called
Denison)
Local government areas: All of Glenorchy and Hobart, parts of Kingborough
Enrolment at close of rolls: 73,915
1999 republic referendum: Yes 52.4
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 73.8
Sitting member: Andrew Wilkie (independent):
Elected 2010, 2013, 2016
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 15.6% *
2010 Independent majority over Labor: 1.2% *
2013 Independent majority over Labor: 15.5% *
2016 Independent majority over Labor: 17.8% *
2016 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 15.3% *
2019 notional Independent majority over Labor: 17.8%
* as Denison
Status: Safe Independent
2016 results
Statistics and history
Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Andrew Wilkie
Independent |
2. Ben McGregor
Australian Labor Party |
3. Amanda-Sue Markham
Liberal Party |
4. Juniper Shaw
Australian Greens |
5. Jim Starkey
United Australia Party |
Candidate websites:
Ben McGregor
Amanda-Sue Markham
Juniper Shaw
Andrew Wilkie
Division of Clark
The seat of Clark, named Denison until the 2018 redistribution, has existed since Tasmania was first divided into
electorates in 1903, and has always taken in the city of Hobart and its suburbs on the western shore of the Derwent River.
Its boundaries have expanded and contracted over successive redistributions but the character of the seat has changed
very little. Although it has a relatively low median income level, like all Tasmanian seats, it has a high proportion of
people in professional and managerial occupations, and particularly, as both a state capital and a hub for Commonwealth administration,
a high level of government employment. This contributed to the consolidation of the Labor vote from 1969 onwards, even
as traditional blue-collar employment has disappeared from inner urban areas. Clark has the smallest proportion of
Catholics of any seat in Australia.
Members for Denison have included Liberal ministers Athol Townley and Michael Hodgman. Duncan Kerr won the seat for Labor
in 1987. Denison used to be one of the most consistently marginal seats in the country (it has had 16 members, the equal
highest number, with Bass and Bendigo), but Kerr held it for 23 years. He was a junior minister in the Keating government and a
Parliamentary Secretary in the Rudd Government. Kerr retired in 2010, and Denison then produced a major upset by electing
Andrew Wilkie, an independent.
Andrew Wilkie, independent MP for Denison since 2010, is a former Army officer and analyst at the Office of National
Assessments, who gained attention with his criticisms of the Howard Government's conduct of the Iraq War. In 2004 he
ran as an independent against John Howard in Bennelong. In 2007 he was in second place on the Greens' Tasmanian Senate
ticket. In 2010 he polled only 21% in Denison, but was elected on Green and Liberal preferences.
Wilkie supported the minority Gillard Government in the 2010 hung parliament, but later withdrew his support. He
easily won re-election in 2013 and 2016.
The Labor candidate in 2019 will be Ben McGregor, a social worker and mental heath clinician. The Liberal candidate is
Amanda-Sue Markham, a former nurse, who contested Franklin in 2016. (She was also a Christian Democratic candidate in the 2001 WA
state election). The Greens
candidate is Juniper Shaw, a bar manager.
Demographics:
Median weekly household income: $1,224 (Australia $1,438)
People over 65: 17.4% (Australia 15.8%)
Indigenous: 3.0% (Australia 2.8%)
Australian born: 75.3% (Australia 66.7%)
Non-English-speaking households: 12.8% (Australia 22.2%)
Catholics 9.8% (Australia 22.6%)
No religion 41.5% (Australia 29.6%)
University graduates: 26.8% (Australia 22.0%)
Professional and managerial employment: 38.3% (Australia 35.2%)
Employed in manufacturing and construction: 16.9% (Australia 22.9%)
Paying a mortgage: 31.1% (Australia 34.5%)
Renting: 33.6% (Australia 30.9%)
Traditional families: 24.4% (Australia 32.8%)
Members for Denison:
Rt Hon Sir Philip Fysh (Prot, AS, Lib) 1903-10
Hon William Laird Smith (ALP, Nat) 1910-22
Hon David O'Keefe (ALP) 1922-25
Sir John Gellibrand (Nat) 1925-28
Hon Charles Culley (ALP) 1928-31
Arthur Hutchin (UAP) 1931-34
Gerald Mahoney (ALP) 1934-40
Arthur Beck (UAP) 1940-43
Dr John Gaha (ALP) 1943-49
Hon Athol Townley (Lib) 1949-64
Adrian Gibson (Lib) 1964b-69
Dr Robert Solomon (Lib) 1969-72
John Coates (ALP) 1972-75
Hon Michael Hodgman (Lib) 1975-87
Hon Duncan Kerr (ALP) 1987-2010
Andrew Wilkie (Ind) 2010-
Boundaries following 2018 redistribution:
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