Division Profile

Division Name

CHARLTON

State

New South Wales

Elected Member

Hoare, K (ALP) 1998-

Name Derivation

Named after Matthew Charlton 1866-1948, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1903-10, Member of House of Representatives 1910-28 and leader of ALP 1922-28.

First Proclaimed / Election

1984

Area

567 sq. kms

Demographic

Provincial

Seat Status

Fairly Safe

Enrolment

85,547

Turnout

95.73%

Informal

4.96%

Location

Charlton covers an area of approximately 567 sq km from Cardiff, Warners Bay, Wallsend and Garden Suburb in the east, south to Wyee and north to Wallsend. The main suburbs include Cardiff, Edgeworth, and Wallsend in the Newcastle area and Boolaroo, Charlestown, Speers Point, Toronto, Wangi Wangi, Warners Bay, Morisset and Wyee in the Lake Macquarie area.

Products and Industry

Light and heavy engineering, timber, textiles, some dairy farms and poultry farming, tourism, coal-mining, electricity, sulphide production and retailing.

Members

HOARE, K (ALP) 1998-

BROWN, B (ALP) 1984-1998

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Inner metropolitan: located in a capital city and comprising well-established, built-up suburbs.
Outer metropolitan: located in capital cities and containing areas of more recent urban expansion.
Provincial: divisions with a majority of enrolment in major provincial cities.
Rural: divisions without a majority of enrolment in major provincial cities.
Where a winning party receives less than 56% of the vote, the seat is classified as 'marginal', 56-60% is classified as 'fairly safe' and more than 60% is considered 'safe'.
The turnout figure provided in the results screens is based on eligible electors and is calculated as the number of votes counted as a percentage of the election enrolment.
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NSW DIVISION - CHARLTON

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