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VIC DIVISION - ISAACS

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Division Name ISAACS
State Victoria
Elected Member Dreyfus, M (ALP) 2007-
Name Derivation Named after Sir Isaac Isaacs 1855-1948, Member of the House of Representatives 1901-06, Chief Justice of the High Court 1930 and Governor-General of Australia 1931-36.
First Proclaimed / Election 1948/1949
Area 171 sq. kms
Demographic Outer Metropolitan
Pre-Election Seat Status Marginal
Seat Status Fairly Safe
Enrolment 98,189
Turnout 95.18%
Informal 3.31%
Location Isaacs covers an area of approximately 171 sq km on the eastern side of Port Phillip Bay from Cheltenham to Seaford then inland to Skye and Noble Park. The main suburbs include Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Bonbeach, Braeside, Carrum, Carrum Downs (part), Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Cheltenham (part), Dandenong South, Edithvale, Keysborough, Lyndhurst (part), Mentone (part), Mordialloc, Noble Park (part), Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, Skye (part), Springvale South (part) and Waterways.
Products and Industry Light manufacturing especially around Braeside.

Members
Dreyfus, M (ALP) 2007-
Corcoran, A (ALP) 2000-2007
Wilton, G S (ALP) 1996-2000
Atkinson, R A (LP) 1990-1996
Charles, D E (ALP) 1980-1990
Burns, W G (LP) 1977-1980
Hamer, D J (LP) 1975-1977
Clayton, G (ALP) 1974-1975
Hamer, D J (LP) 1969-1974
Haworth, W C (LP) 1949-1969

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