Division of Wills

Wills Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wills in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1949
MP	Peter Khalil
Party	Labor
Namesake	William Wills
Electors	113,856 (2016)
Area	57 km² (22.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Wills is an Australian electoral division of Victoria. It is currently represented by Peter Khalil of the Australian Labor Party.

The electorate encompasses many of the suburbs in the City of Moreland in Melbourne's north, including Brunswick, Coburg, Pascoe Vale, Fawkner, Glenroy and Essendon Airport. It was named after William John Wills of Burke and Wills fame.

Wills has been in Labor hands for its entire existence except between the 1992 by-election and 1996, when it was held by independent Phil Cleary. Its highest-profile member was former Prime Minister Bob Hawke. The 1992 by-election is remarkable for a number of reasons: It was caused by Bob Hawke's retirement from parliament; it had a record twenty-two candidates standing; it was won by an independent; the results were thrown out as the winner, Phil Cleary, was on unpaid leave from the state education system (the Australian Constitution forbids people employed by the Crown from standing for election). No replacement by-election was held as the court decision which threw out the results was made shortly before a general election was due.

Members

	Party	Term
Bill Bryson	Labor	1949–1955
Bill Bryson	Labor (Anti-Communist)	1955–1955
Gordon Bryant	Labor	1955–1980
Bob Hawke	Labor	1980–1992
Phil Cleary	Independent	1992–1996
Kelvin Thomson	Labor	1996–2016
Peter Khalil	Labor	2016–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Wills

Australian federal election, 2016: Wills^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Peter Khalil	35,431	37.65	−7.49
	Greens	Samantha Ratnam	29,017	30.83	+8.60
	Liberal	Kevin Hong	20,634	21.93	−0.91
	Sex Party	Tristram Chellew	2,608	2.77	+0.16
	Independent	Francesco Timpano	1,832	1.95	+1.95
	Animal Justice	Camille Sydow	1,578	1.68	+1.68
	Drug Law Reform	Ash Blackwell	1,287	1.37	+1.37
	Renewable Energy	Dougal Gillman	778	0.83	+0.83
	Socialist Alliance	Zane Alcorn	648	0.69	−0.44
	Socialist Equality	Will Fulgenzi	295	0.31	+0.31
Total formal votes			94,108	93.25	−1.22
Informal votes			6,807	6.75	+1.22
Turnout			100,915	88.63	−2.30
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Peter Khalil	67,037	71.23	+0.47
	Liberal	Kevin Hong	27,071	28.77	−0.47
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Peter Khalil	51,646	54.88	−10.32
	Greens	Samantha Ratnam	42,462	45.12	+10.32
	Labor hold		Swing	−10.32

References

↑ Wills, VIC, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Division of Wills - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria

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Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

Coordinates: 37°43′44″S 144°56′35″E / 37.729°S 144.943°E / -37.729; 144.943

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