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2024 Dunkley By-election
A by-election to elect the next member of the Australian Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives in the electorate of Division of Dunkley, Dunkley was held on 2 March 2024, following the death of sitting member Peta Murphy in December 2023. Jodie Belyea retained the seat for the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party, winning 52.7% of the Two-candidate preferred, two-party preferred vote. It was the third federal by-election to have taken place since the first sitting of the 47th Parliament of Australia, 47th Parliament, as well as being the first federal by-election in a Labor seat since 2020 Eden-Monaro by-election, 2020 and the first federal by-election triggered by a member's death since 2015 Canning by-election, 2015. Background The by-election was triggered by the death of sitting Australian Labor Party, Labor member Peta Murphy, who died at 50 years old due to breast cancer. Murphy was first diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 37. Murphy was elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Dunkley
The Division of Dunkley is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division is located south-east of Melbourne in the Mornington Peninsula. It covers an area of approximately from in the north to in the south and Langwarrin South in the southeast. 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. History The division was created in 1984 and is named for Louisa Margaret Dunkley, a trade unionist and campaigner for equal pay for women. It was held by the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2019, however a 2018 boundary redistribution that favoured Labor, along with Labor’s increased statewide streng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
