Electoral district of Docklands

Docklands港区 Gǎngqū港区 Minato-kuEnderronian Parliament 	Docklands港区 Gǎngqū港区 Minato-kuEnderronian Parliament 	Docklands港区 Gǎngqū港区 Minato-kuEnderronian Parliament
Location of Docklands in Wentworth Metropolis 	Location of Docklands in Wentworth Metropolis 	Location of Docklands in Wentworth Metropolis
District Details 	District Details 	District Details
Created 	1946 	
Dates current 	1946–1962, 1990–present 	
MP 	Craig Ahlquist 	
Party 	Liberal 	
Namesake 	Docklands, Wentworth 	
Electors 	132,582 	
Area 	TBA km² 	
Demographic 	Inner metropolitan 	
Docklands is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Wentworth Metropolis. It was originally created in the 1946 redistribution and first contested at the federal election later that year, then abolished in 1962. It was recreated after a redistribution in 1990. The seat is named after the inner eastern Wentworth suburb of Docklands, and is one of the most densely populated electorates in the country.
The sitting member, since the 2002 federal election, is Craig Ahlquist, a member of the Liberal Party of Enderron.
==History==
Docklands has always been centred on waterfront inner eastern suburbs of Wentworth, however significant demographic change has affected its voting patterns. In its original incarnation, it was a safe seat for the Social Democrats, as the Wentworth Docklands were originally a heavily working class region. The eastern end of the electorate was more affluent, taking in the more upper-class suburbs of St Kilda and Brighton Beach, however their tendency to favour the United Party was not enough to overcome the overall left-leaning nature of the seat. In the 1962 redistribution, amidst population decline in the area, Docklands was abolished and its territory was divided into its neighbouring electorates.
Starting from the late 1980s, the Docklands area underwent a major urban revitalisation project and became significantly gentrified. The seat of Docklands was recreated in 1990. The demographic changes made the seat much less safe for the Social Democrats. It was one of the many marginal seats taken by the Liberals in its 2002 election win, and it has been held by the party since. Docklands is now a safe Liberal seat.
==Members==
# 	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
First incarnation (1946–1962) 	First incarnation (1946–1962) 	First incarnation (1946–1962) 	First incarnation (1946–1962) 	First incarnation (1946–1962)
1 	width="3%" 	Max Wharton 	Social Democrats 	1946–1959
2 	 	David House 	Social Democrats 	1959–1962
Second incarnation (1990–present)	Second incarnation (1990–present)	Second incarnation (1990–present)	Second incarnation (1990–present)	Second incarnation (1990–present)
3 	 	Jane Billingsley 	United 	1990–1994
4 	 	Christine Sokolowski 	Social Democrats 	1994–2002
5 	 	Craig Ahlquist 	Liberal 	2002–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Docklands	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Docklands	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Docklands	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Docklands	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Docklands	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Docklands
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Liberal 	Craig Ahlquist 	72,410 	60.61 	+4.48
 	Greens 	Erik Tolbert 	19,748 	16.53 	+1.64
 	Social Democrats 	Sean Thunberg 	19,402 	16.24 	–3.05
 	Pirate 	Joy Ruddock 	4,050 	3.39 	+3.39
 	Wentworth 	Luke Mander 	3,859 	3.23 	+1.56
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	119,468 	95.13 	–1.04
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	6,115 	4.87 	+1.04
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	125,583 	94.72 	–0.33
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	Liberal 	Craig Ahlquist 	81,525 	68.24 	+4.17
 	Social Democrats 	Sean Thunberg 	37,943 	31.76 	–4.17
 	Liberal hold 	Liberal hold 	Swing 	+4.17 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Wentworth Metropolis
Anderson · Bayswater · Bexley · Brighton · Castlebrook · Docklands · Dykstra · Franklin · Hannigan · Heathbridge · Jackson · Jansen · Kensington · Linden · MacDonnell · Olympia · Parnell · Reed · Rhinehart · Sjoberg · Southcott · Thompson · Torrens · Wentworth · Whetstone