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McMillan
Australian House of Representatives Division
McMillan; Australian House of Representatives Division
	Division of McMillan in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election
Created	1949
Abolished	2019
Namesake	Angus McMillan
Electors	116,200 (2016)
Area	8,328 km2 (3,215.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

The Division of McMillan was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was located in the western part of the Gippsland region, which extends for the length of Victoria's eastern Bass Strait coastline. It included the outer south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Pakenham, and also included the towns of Warragul, Moe, Wonthaggi, Leongatha and Foster. It stretched from Mount Baw Baw and the Baw Baw National Park in the north to Wilsons Promontory, and the Wilsons Promontory National Park in the south. It was the southernmost electoral division in continental Australia. It was replaced by the Division of Monash in 2019.

History

The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 election. It was named after Angus McMillan, a mass murderer^[1]^[2] and early European explorer in the Gippsland region responsible for the Gippsland massacres. The seat traded hands between the conservative parties from its creation until Labor finally won it in 1980. The Division has changed hands five times in the last seven Federal elections. The change at the 2004 election was attributed to the redistribution of 29 January 2003, which removed the traditionally Labor-voting cities of Traralgon and Morwell from the Division.^[3] This allowed Liberal Russell Broadbent to win the seat once again; he had previously held it from 1996 to 1998. Broadbent was re-elected in the 2007 election.

The 1972 federal election saw Country Party candidate Arthur Hewson win the seat from third place and a primary vote of 16.6%.^[4] This is the lowest primary vote for a winning candidate in any federal election; Hewson overtook the Liberal candidate on preferences from the Democratic Labor Party and disendorsed sitting Liberal MP Alex Buchanan, and then defeated the Labor candidate on Liberal preferences.^[5]

The division was renamed to the Division of Monash in 2018.

Members

Member	Party	Term	Notes
Geoffrey Brown (1894–1955)	Liberal	10 December 1949 – 14 October 1955	Died in office
Alex Buchanan (1905–1985)	Liberal	10 December 1955 – 1972	Lost preselection and then lost seat
Alex Buchanan (1905–1985)	Independent	1972 – 2 December 1972	Lost preselection and then lost seat
Arthur Hewson (1914–1999)	Country/National Country	2 December 1972 – 13 December 1975	Previously a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Lost seat
Barry Simon (1936–2004)	Liberal	13 December 1975 – 18 October 1980	Lost seat
Barry Cunningham (1939–2018)	Labor	18 October 1980 – 24 March 1990	Served as Chief Government Whip in the House under Hawke. Lost seat
John Riggall (1941–)	Liberal	24 March 1990 – 13 March 1993	Lost seat
Barry Cunningham (1939–2018)	Labor	13 March 1993 – 2 March 1996	Lost seat
Russell Broadbent (1950–)	Liberal	2 March 1996 – 3 October 1998	Previously held the Division of Corinella. Lost seat
Christian Zahra (1973–)	Labor	3 October 1998 – 9 October 2004	Lost seat
Russell Broadbent (1950–)	Liberal	9 October 2004 – 11 April 2019	Transferred to the Division of Monash after McMillan was abolished in 2019

Election results

2016 Australian federal election: McMillan^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell Broadbent	48,304	47.86	−2.50
	Labor	Chris Buckingham	29,531	29.26	+4.21
	Greens	Donna Lancaster	9,810	9.72	+2.10
	Family First	Nathan Harding	3,418	3.39	+1.38
	Animal Justice	Jennifer McAdam	3,022	2.99	+2.99
	Rise Up Australia	Norman Baker	2,786	2.76	+2.09
	Liberal Democrats	Jim McDonald	2,289	2.27	+2.27
	Christians	Kathleen Ipsen	1,761	1.74	+1.74
Total formal votes			100,921	94.29	+0.40
Informal votes			6,115	5.71	−0.40
Turnout			107,036	92.11	−2.53
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Russell Broadbent	56,543	56.03	−5.80
	Labor	Chris Buckingham	44,378	43.97	+5.80
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.80