Division of Tangney

Tangney Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Tangney (green) in Western Australia
Created:	1974
MP:	Dennis Jensen
Party:	Liberal
Namesake:	Dorothy Tangney
Area:	96 km² (37 sq mi)
Demographic:	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Tangney is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. Eligible voters within the Division elect a single representative, known as the member for Tangney, to the Australian House of Representatives. The Division was named after Dame Dorothy Tangney, the first female member of the Australian Senate, and is at present a safe Liberal seat held by Dr Dennis Jensen, a physicist and defence analyst, since the retirement of high-profile former Attorney General Daryl Williams at the 2004 federal election.

History

Tangney was established at the 19 April 1974 redistribution and was first contested at the 1974 federal election. Until the 1984 redistribution, the seat included a much wider area including the traditional Labor areas of Spearwood and Gosnells, and the seat was a bellwether seat represented by the party of government. In 1984, the seat was confined to its present borders and has been held by the Liberal Party ever since.

It was first held by John Dawkins, later a Treasurer of Australia (as Member for Fremantle), and was held from 1993 until 2004 by Daryl Williams, former Attorney-General of Australia and Rhodes Scholar.^[1]

The seat briefly made national headlines in August 2006 when Matt Brown, once a chief-of-staff to former Defence Minister Robert Hill, defeated incumbent MP Dr Dennis Jensen for preselection, despite support for the latter from John Howard. However, on 7 October 2006, the decision was overturned by the Liberals' Western Australian state council and Jensen was once again confirmed as the candidate for the 2007 election.^[2]

Geography

The seat presently contains most of the City of Melville and a considerable portion of the City of Canning and is located south of the Swan and Canning rivers. Suburbs presently included are:

City of Melville Alfred Cove Applecross Ardross Attadale Bateman Booragoon Brentwood Bull Creek Kardinya (east of North Lake Road) Leeming Melville Mount Pleasant Murdoch (including Murdoch University) Myaree Winthrop

City of Canning Parkwood Riverton Rossmoyne Shelley Willetton Canning Vale

Members

Member		Party	Term
	John Dawkins	Labor	1974–1975
	Peter Richardson	Liberal	1975–1977
		Progress	1977–1977
	Peter Shack	Liberal	1977–1983
	George Gear	Labor	1983–1984
	Peter Shack	Liberal	1984–1993
	Daryl Williams	Liberal	1993–2004
	Dennis Jensen	Liberal	2004–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Tangney

Australian federal election, 2010: Tangney
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dennis Jensen	46,712	55.69	+3.31
	Labor	David Doepel	21,637	25.80	-5.73
	Greens	Peter Best	11,311	13.49	+5.20
	Christian Democrats	Ka-ren Chew	2,814	3.36	+1.01
	Family First	Moyna Rapp	1,399	1.67	+0.53
Total formal votes			83,873	96.52	-0.83
Informal votes			3,028	3.48	+0.83
Turnout			86,901	94.28	-0.80
Two-candidate preferred result
	Liberal	Dennis Jensen	52,266	62.32	+2.51
	Labor	David Doepel	31,607	37.68	-2.51
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.51

References

1. ^ "ABC "Australia Votes" - Tangney Electorate Profile". http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2004/guide/tang.htm. 
2. ^ "Dumped MP re-endorsed for federal seat". Sydney Morning Herald. 8 October 2006. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/08/1160246004117.html. 

• Division of Tangney - Australian Electoral Commission

Coordinates: 32°03′11″S 115°52′08″E / 32.053°S 115.869°E / -32.053; 115.869