Division of Burt

The Division of Burt is an Australian electoral division in Perth in the state of Western Australia.

Burt Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Burt in Western Australia, as of the 2021 redistribution.
Created	2016
MP	Matt Keogh
Party	Labor
Namesake	Burt family of Western Australia
Electors	113,024 (2022)
Area	172 km2 (66.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer metropolitan[1]

Burt contains Perth's growing southeastern suburban corridor and covers 190 square kilometers.^[2] Major suburbs include Armadale, Gosnells, Thornlie, Kenwick, Huntingdale, Harrisdale, Piara Waters and Southern River.^[2] Burt is a middle- and working-class electorate with a high rate of Trade Union membership.^[3]

The current and inaugural MP is Matt Keogh, a member of the Australian Labor Party. He has held the seat since its inception in 2016.

History

Septimus Burt, whose family is the division's namesake

The division was created in 2015 and was named after the Burt family, specifically Sir Archibald Burt, Septimus Burt and Sir Francis Burt.^[4] The division is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Perth and covers areas that had previously been represented by the divisions of Canning, Hasluck and Tangney.^[5]

The seat was first contested at the 2016 federal election. Based on the results from the 2013 federal election the division was created as a notionally fairly safe Liberal with a notional two-party preferred margin of 6.1 percent.^[6] However, based on federal polling indicating a large nine percent two-party swing to Labor since the last election, Burt was tipped as one of several seats that could have potentially fallen to Labor at the 2016 federal election.^[7] Additionally, much of the seat's territory is represented by Labor at state level.

The seat was won by Labor's Matt Keogh, who had been the Labor candidate in the 2015 Canning by-election, on a swing of over 13 percent, turning it from fairly safe Liberal to fairly safe Labor.

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.^[8]

In August 2021, the Australian Electoral Commission announced that the suburb of Canning Vale would be transferred from Burt to the seat of Tangney, while Burt would gain the suburbs of Kenwick, Maddington, Orange Grove and part of Martin from the seat of Canning. These boundary changes took place as of the 2022 election.^[9]

The seat presently comprises considerable portions of the City of Gosnells and the City of Armadale. Suburbs presently included are:^[10]

City of Armadale

• Armadale
• Brookdale
• Camillo
• Champion Lakes
• Forrestdale
• Harrisdale
• Haynes
• Hilbert (part)
• Kelmscott
• Mount Nasura
• Piara Waters
• Seville Grove
• Wungong (part)

City of Gosnells

• Beckenham
• Gosnells
• Huntingdale
• Kenwick
• Langford
• Maddington
• Martin (part)
• Orange Grove
• Southern River
• Thornlie

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Matt Keogh (1981–)	Labor	2 July 2016 – present	Incumbent. Currently a minister under Albanese

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Burt

2022 Australian federal election: Burt^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Matt Keogh	47,268	51.63	+10.51
	Liberal	David Goode	21,009	22.95	−9.49
	Greens	Daniel Garlett	9,004	9.84	+0.27
	One Nation	Travis Carter	4,436	4.85	−1.25
	Christians	Warnar Spyker	3,428	3.74	+0.06
	Western Australia	Stephen Phelan	2,390	2.61	+1.40
	United Australia	Joshua Mccurry	2,274	2.48	+0.24
	Federation	Michele Castle	1,741	1.90	+1.90
Total formal votes			91,550	94.16	+0.82
Informal votes			5,675	5.84	−0.82
Turnout			97,225	86.10	−0.89
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Matt Keogh	59,704	65.21	+9.71
	Liberal	David Goode	31,846	34.79	−9.71
	Labor hold		Swing	+9.71

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in Western Australia § Burt.[edit]

Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Burt in the 2022 federal election. The winning candidate got over 50% of first preference votes, so this alluvial diagram is indicative only, and preference flows were not used to determine the final result. The preference flows were used to determine the two-candidate-preferred.

Primary vote results in Burt (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Labor

  Liberal

  Greens

  Australian Christians

  One Nation

Two-party-preferred vote results in Burt

Notes

1. "Profile of the electoral division of Burt (WA)". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
2. "Burt - Federal Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
3. "2016 Burt, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
4. Proposed Redistribution of Western Australia into Electoral Divisions (PDF) (Report). Redistribution Committee for Western Australia. August 2015. p. 17.
5. "2015 Western Australian Federal redistribution - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News.
6. Federal Election 2016: Electoral Pendulum ABC.net.au. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
7. Bowe, William (11 May 2016). "Day Two: Essential, Lonergan, BludgerTrack and More." PollBludger.net. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
8. Muller, Damon (14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
9. Augmented Electoral Commission for Western Australia, Redistribution of Western Australia into electoral divisions. (PDF), Commonwealth of Australia 2021, 2021.
10. "Profile of the electoral division of Burt (WA)". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
11. Burt, WA, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.

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