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{{short description|Australian federal electoral division}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox Australian Electorate
| federal = yes
| name = Chisholm
| image = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|from=Australian Federal Electorates/Victoria (2025)/Chisholm.map|frame-height=300|frame-width=400|overlay-horizontal-alignment=right|overlay-vertical-alignment=bottom|overlay=[[File:Division of Chisholm 2025.svg|x100px]]}}
| caption = Interactive map of electorate boundaries from the [[2025 Australian federal election|2025 federal election]]
| created = 1949
| mp = [[Carina Garland]]
| mp-party = [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]]
| namesake = [[Caroline Chisholm]]
| electors = 122795
| electors_year = [[2025 Australian federal election|2025]]
| area = 73
| class = Inner metropolitan
| near-nw = [[Division of Kooyong|Kooyong]]
| near-n = [[Division of Menzies|Menzies]]
| near-ne = [[Division of Deakin|Deakin]]
| near-e = [[Division of Aston|Aston]]
| near-se = [[Division of Bruce|Bruce]]
| near-s = [[Division of Hotham|Hotham]]
| near-sw = [[Division of Macnamara|Macnamara]]
| near-w = [[Division of Kooyong|Kooyong]]
}}

The '''Division of Chisholm''' ({{IPAc-en|'|tʃ|ɪ|z|əm}} {{respell|CHIZ|əm}}) is an [[Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives|Australian Electoral Division]] in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] located in the eastern suburbs of [[Melbourne]]. The Division was created in 1949 and is named after [[Caroline Chisholm]], a social worker and promoter of women's immigration.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Australian Electoral Commission |first= |title=Profile of the electoral division of Chisholm (Vic) |url=https://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/vic/chisholm.htm |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Australian Electoral Commission |language=en-AU}}</ref> The Division is an Inner Metropolitan area.<ref name=":0" />

The Division's current MP is [[Carina Garland]] of the [[Australian Labor Party]]. The constituency is considered a key [[Marginal constituencies|marginal constituency]] targeted by both Labor and the [[Liberal Party of Australia]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-04-28 |title='For the first time ever I'm undecided': This seat could decide who forms government, but what are voters saying? |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-29/chisholm-election-chinese-australian-voters-undecided-marginal/101015928 |access-date=2022-05-06}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Muller |first1=Damon |title=The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide |url=https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1718/Quick_Guides/FederalRedistributions |website=Parliament of Australia |access-date=19 April 2022 |date=14 November 2017}}</ref>

Since 2022, the Division has encompassed the suburbs of [[Ashwood, Victoria|Ashwood]], [[Blackburn, Victoria|Blackburn]], [[Blackburn South, Victoria|Blackburn South]], [[Box Hill, Victoria|Box Hill]], [[Box Hill South, Victoria|Box Hill South]], [[Burwood, Victoria|Burwood]], [[Burwood East, Victoria|Burwood East]], [[Glen Waverley, Victoria|Glen Waverley]], [[Laburnum, Victoria|Laburnum]], [[Mount Waverley, Victoria|Mount Waverley]], [[Notting Hill, Victoria|Notting Hill]], [[Syndal, Victoria|Syndal]] and [[Wheelers Hill, Victoria|Wheelers Hill]]. Additionally, the Division also includes parts of [[Chadstone, Victoria|Chadstone]], [[Clayton, Victoria|Clayton]], [[Mulgrave, Victoria|Mulgrave]] and [[Oakleigh, Victoria|Oakleigh]].<ref name=":0" />

The Division of Chisholm consists of part of the local government areas of [[City of Monash|Monash City Council]] and [[City of Whitehorse|Whitehorse City Council]].<ref name=":0" />

== Demographics ==
The Division of Chisholm has a diverse population, with around 54% of its residents being [[Immigration to Australia|born overseas]]. Approximately 55% of the population speak a language other than [[English language|English]] at home, with [[Chinese Australians]] making around 30% of the population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/CED207 |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 |access-date=26 January 2024|title=2021 Chisholm, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics }}</ref> The seat has the largest Chinese community of any electorate in all of Australia.

==History==
[[File:Caroline Chisholm by Claudet.jpg|150px|thumb|left|[[Caroline Chisholm]], the division's namesake]]
On its original boundaries, it was a comfortably safe [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] seat centred on [[Camberwell, Victoria|Camberwell]]. However, successive redistributions from 1980 onward have moved the electorate south-east, taking in strongly [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]]-voting suburbs to balance out the relatively affluent Liberal-leaning suburbs in the north of the seat, and making the seat marginal. The first member for Chisholm, [[Wilfrid Kent Hughes|Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes]], was one of Australia's most distinguished soldiers and a former Olympian, who held the seat until his death on 31 July 1970.

Labor finally took the seat in the [[1983 Australian federal election|1983 landslide]] that brought [[Bob Hawke]] to power, only to lose it in [[1987 Australian federal election|1987]]. [[Anna Burke]] became the second Labor member ever to win it in [[1998 Australian federal election|1998 election]] and held it until her retirement in [[2016 Australian federal election|2016]]. [[Julia Banks]] won the seat for the Liberals at the 2016 election, becoming the only Liberal challenger to take a seat from Labor at that election. Taking this seat off Labor turned out to be crucial in ensuring the Coalition retaining its majority; it meant they had 76 seats, as opposed to the 75 they would have had if Labor had retained this seat.

On 27 November 2018, Banks resigned from the Liberal Party due to disaffection with the party resulting from the [[2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills|leadership spill]] which removed [[Malcolm Turnbull]] as Prime Minister and the treatment of women within the party. Banks announced she would sit on the crossbench as an independent, but guarantee [[confidence and supply]] to the [[Morrison government]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/julia-banks-has-resigns-from-the-liberal-party/news-story/38fbcbc4d3f9daced8dcfd6ba0984ef6|title=Julia Banks delivers scathing review of major parties after resigning from the Liberal Party|last=Chang|first=Charis|date=2018-11-27|work=news.com.au|access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref>

[[Gladys Liu]] won Chisholm in the [[2019 Australian federal election|2019 election]] for the Liberal Party against Jennifer Yang by less than 0.6%, becoming the first [[Chinese Australians|Chinese Australian]] to enter the lower house.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/gladys-liu-becomes-first-chinese-australian-woman-to-enter-lower-house|title=Gladys Liu becomes first Chinese-Australian woman to enter lower house|website=SBS News|language=en|access-date=2019-08-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-21/australia-elects-first-chinese-australian-female-mp-lower-house/11126624|title=Morrison secures majority Government with historic win of first female Chinese-Australian MP in Chisholm|last=Dziedzic|first=foreign affairs reporter Stephen|date=2019-05-21|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-08-16}}</ref>

In 2022, Labor's [[Carina Garland|Dr Carina Garland]] won the seat from Liberal incumbent Liu. The loss of the seat in 2022 to Labor has been attributed to the notably large swings against the Liberal Party among [[Chinese Australian]] voters which has cost the Liberal Party many key seats.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Knott |first1=Matthew |title=Chinese-Australian voters punished Coalition for hostile rhetoric |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-australian-voters-punished-coalition-for-hostile-rhetoric-20220525-p5aoem.html |website=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=3 February 2024}}</ref>
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==Members==
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
|-
! colspan=2 | Image
! Member
! Party
! Term
! Notes
|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}| 
| [[File:Kenthughes.jpg|100px]]
| [[Wilfrid Kent Hughes|Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes]] {{small|(1895–1970)}}
| rowspan="3" | [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]
| nowrap | [[1949 Australian federal election|10 December 1949]] – 31 July 1970
| Previously held the [[Victorian Legislative Assembly]] seat of [[Electoral district of Kew|Kew]]. Served as minister under [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|Menzies]]. Died in office

|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}| 
| [[File:Tony Staley 1974 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
| [[Tony Staley]] {{small|(1939–2023)}}
| nowrap | [[1970 Chisholm by-election|19 September 1970]] – [[1980 Australian federal election|19 September 1980]]
| Served as minister under [[Fraser government|Fraser]]. Retired

|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}| 
| [[File:Liberal Placeholder.png|100px]]
| [[Graham Harris]] {{small|(1937–)}}
| nowrap | [[1980 Australian federal election|18 October 1980]] – [[1983 Australian federal election|5 March 1983]]
| Lost seat

|-
| {{Australian party style|Labor}}| 
| [[File:Labor Placeholder.png|100px]]
| [[Helen Mayer]] {{small|(1932–2008)}}
| [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]]
| nowrap | [[1983 Australian federal election|5 March 1983]] – [[1987 Australian federal election|11 July 1987]]
| Lost seat

|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}| 
| [[File:Liberal Placeholder.png|100px]]
| [[Michael Wooldridge (politician)|Michael Wooldridge]] {{small|(1956–)}}
| [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]
| nowrap | [[1987 Australian federal election|11 July 1987]] – [[1998 Australian federal election|3 October 1998]]
| Served as minister under [[Howard government|Howard]]. Transferred to the Division of [[Division of Casey|Casey]]

|-
| {{Australian party style|Labor}}| 
| [[File:Anna Burke.jpg|100px]]
| [[Anna Burke]] {{small|(1966–)}}
| [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]]
| nowrap | [[1998 Australian federal election|3 October 1998]] – [[2016 Australian federal election|9 May 2016]]
| Served as [[Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives|Speaker]] during the [[Julia Gillard|Gillard]] and [[Kevin Rudd|Rudd]] Governments. Retired

|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}| 
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Julia Banks 2021.jpg|100px]]
| rowspan=2 | [[Julia Banks]] {{small|(1962–)}}
| [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]
| nowrap | [[2016 Australian federal election|2 July 2016]] – 27 November 2018
| rowspan=2 | Did not contest in [[2019 Australian federal election|2019]]. Failed to win the Division of [[Division of Flinders|Flinders]]
|-
| {{Australian party style|Independent}}| 
| nowrap | [[Independent politician|Independent]]
| nowrap | 27 November 2018 – [[2019 Australian federal election|18 May 2019]]

|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}| 
| [[File:Gladys Liu September 2014 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
| [[Gladys Liu]] {{small|(1964–)}}
| [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]
| nowrap | [[2019 Australian federal election|18 May 2019]] – [[2022 Australian federal election|21 May 2022]]
| Lost seat

|-
| {{Australian party style|Labor}}| 
| [[File:Carina Garland at ECLC Chisholm federal election candidates forum (1) — May 2022.jpg|100px]]
| [[Carina Garland]] {{small|(1982–)}}
| [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]]
| nowrap | [[2022 Australian federal election|21 May 2022]] – present
| Incumbent
|}

==Election results==
{{main|Electoral results for the Division of Chisholm}}
{{Excerpt|Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Victoria|section=Chisholm}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/Vic/Chisholm.htm Division of Chisholm - Australian Electoral Commission]

{{Australian federal divisions of Victoria}}

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[[Category:Electoral divisions of Australia]]
[[Category:Electoral divisions of Australia in Victoria]]
[[Category:Constituencies established in 1949]]
[[Category:1949 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:City of Whitehorse]]
[[Category:City of Monash]]
[[Category:Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne]]
[[Category:Caroline Chisolm]]

Division of Chisholm - Revision history

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