Division of Eden-Monaro

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The Division of Eden-Monaro is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for the town of Eden and the Monaro district of southern New South Wales. Its boundaries have changed very little throughout its history, and it includes the towns of Bega and Cooma and the city of Queanbeyan. Geographically it is a large electorate and the towns are quite dispersed: the electorate is 30 946 square kilometres in area and at the time of the 2004 Federal election had a population of 92,532 constituents. Until 1943 it was usually a safe non-Labor seat, but since then it has been consistently marginal. Since 1972 it has always been held by the government of the day, and it is thus regarded as a "bellwether seat".

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Austin Chapman	Protectionist	1901—1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909—1916
		Nationalist	1916—1926
	John Perkins	Nationalist	1926—1929
	John Cusack	Labor	1929—1931
	John Perkins	United Australia	1931—1943
	Allan Fraser	Labor	1943—1966
	Dugald Munro	Liberal	1966—1969
	Allan Fraser	Labor	1969—1972
	Bob Whan	Labor	1972—1975
	Murray Sainsbury	Liberal	1975—1983
	Jim Snow	Labor	1983—1996
	Gary Nairn	Liberal	1996—2007
	Mike Kelly	Labor	2007—present

Election results

References

• Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive
• The Poll Bludger
• ABC Elections
• Australian Electoral Commission

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