Griffith Australian House of Representatives Division |
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Division of Griffith in Queensland, as of the 2016 federal election.
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Created | 1934 |
MP | Terri Butler |
Party | Australian Labor Party |
Namesake | Samuel Griffith |
Electors | 105,841 (2016) |
Area | 60 km2 (23.2 sq mi) |
Demographic | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Griffith is an electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives. The division covers the inner southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland.
Terri Butler retained the seat for Labor at the 2014 Griffith by-election 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 was created in 1934, replacing the seat of Oxley which had been established in 1900. The division is named after Sir Samuel Griffith, former politician and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia.
Griffith covers the inner southern Brisbane suburbs of Balmoral, Bulimba, Camp Hill, Carina Heights, Coorparoo, Dutton Park, East Brisbane, Greenslopes, Highgate Hill, Hawthorne, Kangaroo Point, Morningside, Norman Park, Seven Hills, South Brisbane, and Woolloongabba, as well as parts of Annerley, Cannon Hill, Carina, Holland Park, Holland Park West, Mount Gravatt East, Murarrie, Tarragindi and West End.