Division of Tangney

Tangney Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Tangney in Western Australia, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1974
MP	Ben Morton
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Namesake	Dorothy Tangney
Electors	94,111 (2016)
Area	83 km2 (32.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Tangney is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. The Division was named after Dame Dorothy Tangney, the first female member of the Australian Senate, and is at present a safe Liberal seat. It is currently held by Ben Morton a former state director of the Liberal Party.

Dennis Jensen lost Liberal preselection in Tangney for the 2016 election. Jensen ran against the endorsed Liberal candidate Ben Morton and lost.

Tangney was established at the Western Australia redistribution of 19 April 1974 and was first contested at the 1974 election. Until the 1984 redistribution, the seat included a much wider area including the traditional Labor areas of Spearwood and Gosnells, and the seat was a bellwether seat represented by the party of government. In 1984, the seat was confined to its present borders and has been held by the Liberal Party ever since.

It was first held by John Dawkins, later a Treasurer of Australia (as Member for Fremantle), and was held from 1993 until 2004 by Daryl Williams, former Attorney-General of Australia and Rhodes Scholar.