Division of Goldstein

Goldstein Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Goldstein in Victoria, as of the 2022 federal election
Created	1984
MP	Zoe Daniel
Party	Independent
Namesake	Vida Goldstein
Electors	109,773 (2022)
Area	51 km^2 (19.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

The Division of Goldstein (/ɡoʊldstaɪn/) is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1984, when the former Division of Balaclava was abolished. It is located in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, including Beaumaris, Bentleigh, Brighton, Caulfield South, Cheltenham (part), Glen Huntly (part), Elsternwick (part), Ormond (part), Gardenvale and Sandringham.

Geography

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.^[1]

As a result of a periodical boundary redistribution, from the next Australian federal election, Goldstein’s boundaries will move east to include the suburbs of Moorabbin (part) and Bentleigh East (part) and take more of the suburbs of Cheltenham and Highett.^[2]

History

Vida Goldstein, the division's namesake

The division is named after Vida Goldstein, an early parliamentary candidate who contested five separate elections within the first two decades after Federation. The seat was created in 1984 as a reconfigured version of the Division of Balaclava. Like its predecessor, it was historically a safe seat for the Liberal Party; when combined, the seat is one of very few that has never been held by the Labor Party at any point since 1901.

Its most prominent members include Ian Macphee, a minister under Malcolm Fraser and prominent Liberal moderate; and Andrew Robb, a former federal director of the Liberal Party who served as a minister under John Howard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull.

The long Liberal run in the seat ended in 2022, when teal independent and former ABC News reporter Zoe Daniel defeated Robb's successor, Tim Wilson. The swing against the Liberals was large enough to drop Goldstein down to marginal in a "traditional" two-party matchup with Labor.

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Ian Macphee (1938–)	Liberal	1 December 1984 – 19 February 1990	Previously held the Division of Balaclava. Lost preselection. Failed to win pre-selection for the Division of Deakin. Retired
		David Kemp (1941–)		24 March 1990 – 31 August 2004	Served as minister under Howard. Retired
		Andrew Robb (1951–)		9 October 2004 – 9 May 2016	Served as minister under Howard, Abbott and Turnbull. Retired
		Tim Wilson (1980–)		2 July 2016 – 21 May 2022	Lost seat
		Zoe Daniel (1972–)	Independent	21 May 2022 – present	Incumbent

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Goldstein

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in Victoria § Goldstein.[edit]

2022 Australian federal election: Goldstein^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Tim Wilson	39,607	40.38	−12.29
	Independent	Zoe Daniel	33,815	34.47	+34.47
	Labor	Martyn Abbott	10,799	11.01	−17.30
	Greens	Alana Galli-McRostie	7,683	7.83	−6.21
	Liberal Democrats	David Segal	2,072	2.11	+2.11
	United Australia	Catherine Reynolds	1,840	1.88	−0.08
	One Nation	Lisa Stark	1,239	1.26	+1.26
	Justice	Ellie Sullivan	589	0.60	+0.60
	Sustainable Australia	Brandon Hoult	443	0.45	−1.21
Total formal votes			98,087	96.57	−1.22
Informal votes			3,487	3.43	+1.22
Turnout			101,574	92.65	−1.07
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Liberal	Tim Wilson	53,750	54.80	−2.99
	Labor	Martyn Abbott	44,337	45.20	+2.99
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Zoe Daniel	51,861	52.87	+52.87
	Liberal	Tim Wilson	46,226	47.13	−10.66
	Independent gain from Liberal

Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Goldstein in the 2022 federal election. Y indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner.

Primary vote results in Goldstein (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Liberal

  Labor

  Greens

  Australian Democrats

  Independent

Two-candidate-preferred results in Goldstein

References

1. Muller, Damon (14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
2. https://www.aec.gov.au/redistributions/2023/vic/proposed-redistribution/maps/a4/2024-AEC-Victoria-A4-Goldstein-Proposed.pdf
3. Goldstein, VIC, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

• Division of Goldstein - Australian Electoral Commission

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