Division of Flinders

Flinders
Australian House of Representatives Division
Flinders; Australian House of Representatives Division
	Division of Flinders (green) in Victoria
Created	1900
MP	Zoe McKenzie
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Matthew Flinders
Area	1,955 km2 (754.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer-metropolitan

The Division of Flinders is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was one of the original 75 divisions set up for the first federal election in 1901. It once covered country areas south and east of Melbourne which are now outer southern suburbs on the Mornington Peninsula, including Dromana, Hastings and Portsea.

It is named for Matthew Flinders, the first man to sail right around Australia, and the person who gave Australia her name.

Members

	Party	Term
Arthur Groom	Free Trade	1901–1903
James Gibb	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1903–1906
(Sir) William Irvine	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
	Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1917
	Nationalist	1917–1918
Stanley Bruce	Nationalist	1918–1929
Jack Holloway	Labor	1929–1931
Stanley Bruce	United Australia	1931–1933
James Fairbairn	United Australia	1933–1940
Rupert Ryan	United Australia	1940–1944
Rupert Ryan	Liberal	1944–1952
Keith Ewert	Labor	1952–1954
Robert Lindsay	Liberal	1954–1966
(Sir) Phillip Lynch	Liberal	1966–1982
Peter Reith	Liberal	1982–1983
Bob Chynoweth	Labor	1983–1984
Peter Reith	Liberal	1984–2001
Greg Hunt	Liberal	2001–present

It has usually been a fairly safe seat for the Liberal Party and the earlier conservative parties. It was won by the Australian Labor Party in 1929 when Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was defeated. This was the first time an Australian Prime Minister has lost his own seat at a general election. The only other time this has happened was when Liberal Prime Minister John Howard lost his seat of Bennelong in the 2007 election.

James Faibairn was Australia's first Minister for Air; he was one of three government ministers killed in the Canberra air disaster in 1940.

Sir Phillip Lynch and Peter Reith were former Deputy Liberal leaders.

Greg Hunt was Minister for the Environment in the Abbott Government.

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Flinders^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Zoe McKenzie	43,013	43.49	−3.23
	Labor	Surbhi Snowball	21,487	21.73	−3.01
	Greens	Colin Lane	9,293	9.40	+2.59
	Independent	Despi O'Connor	7,163	7.24	+7.24
	Independent	Sarah Russell	5,189	5.25	+5.25
	United Australia	Alex van der End	4,472	4.52	+2.00
	One Nation	Cyndi Marr	3,373	3.41	+3.41
	Liberal Democrats	Chrysten Abraham	2,366	2.39	+2.39
	Animal Justice	Pamela Engelander	2,060	2.08	−0.30
	Australian Federation	Jefferson Earl	486	0.49	+0.49
Total formal votes			98,902	94.56	+0.50
Informal votes			5,687	5.44	−0.50
Turnout			104,589	91.41	−1.82
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Zoe McKenzie	56,075	56.70	+1.06
	Labor	Surbhi Snowball	42,827	43.30	−1.06
	Template:Australian politics/name/Liberal hold		Swing	+1.06