The Division of Griffith is an electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives. The division covers the inner southern

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of Brisbane, Queensland.

History

The division is named after Sir Samuel Griffith, former politician and a principal author of the

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. Griffith was created in 1934, replacing the seat of Oxley which had been established in 1900. Terri Butler retained the seat for Labor at the

2014 Griffith by-election A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Griffith occurred on Saturday 8 February 2014. Terri Butler retained the seat for Labor with a 51.8 (−1.2) percent two-party vote against Liberal National Party candidate Bill G ...

on 8 February, caused by the resignation of the previous member, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who held the seat from 1998 until his resignation in November 2013. Griffith has a growing Greens vote, with the party winning 5 booths on primary vote at the 2019 federal election and a further 4 booths in which the party came at a close second. The Greens also achieved their strongest favourable swing in 2019 within this seat (at 6.67%). In 2020, the Greens won the state seat of South Brisbane from Labor, which overlaps with part of the electorate, further supporting the trend of a growing Greens vote that has reduced Labor's primary vote in the seat.

Boundaries

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. Griffith covers the inner southern Brisbane suburbs of Balmoral, Bulimba, Camp Hill, Carina Heights, Coorparoo, Dutton Park, East Brisbane,

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, Highgate Hill,

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, Kangaroo Point, Morningside, Norman Park, Seven Hills, South Brisbane,

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, West End and Woolloongabba, as well as parts of

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, Cannon Hill, Carina,

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, Holland Park West, Mount Gravatt East, Murarrie, and

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Members

Election results

References

External links

Division of Griffith (Qld)
— Australian Electoral Commission {{DEFAULTSORT:Griffith, Division of Electoral divisions of Australia Constituencies established in 1934 1934 establishments in Australia Federal politics in Queensland