Electoral district of Linden

Linden林登 Líndēngリンデン RindenEnderronian Parliament 	Linden林登 Líndēngリンデン RindenEnderronian Parliament
Location of Linden in Wentworth Metropolis 	Location of Linden in Wentworth Metropolis
District Details 	District Details
Created 	1950
MP 	Kim Flowers
Party 	Social Democrats
Namesake 	Albert Linden
Electors 	137,285
Area 	TBA km²
Demographic 	Outer metropolitan
Linden is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Wentworth Metropolis, first contested at the 1950 federal election. It is the northernmost electorate in Wentworth, located in the city's northern suburbs. It is named after activist and Social Democratic politician Albert Linden.
The sitting member, since the 2002 election, is Kim Flowers, a member of the Social Democratic Party.
==History==
Linden was created at the 1950 redistribution with the expansion of the Enderronian Parliament. It has always been based in Wentworth's outer northern suburbs. In its original form, it was heavily polarised, split between the working class suburbs in the west and middle class waterfront suburbs in the east. From 1950 to 1958 it was held by the Social Democrats, before being lost to the United Party. Roger Baker held the seat for the party until his retirement in 1990, often on tenuous margins; United never held the seat by more than 4.5 percent except at the 1986 election, in which the margin blew out to 11.3 percent.
At the 1990 redistribution, a new electorate, Olympia, was created by carving out the eastern portion of Linden. The effect of this redistribution was a significant part of the conservative vote had shifted to the new electorate, while the remaining parts of Linden leaned heavily towards the Social Democrats, which remains the case in the present day.
==Members==
#	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1	width="3%"	Barry Bowditch 	Social Democrats	1950–1954
2	 	Rick Trent 	Social Democrats	1954–1958
3	 	Roger Baker 	United 	1958–1990
4	 	John Gillmartin	Social Democrats	1990–2002
5	 	Kim Flowers 	Social Democrats	2002–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Linden	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Linden	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Linden	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Linden	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Linden	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Linden
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Social Democrats 	Kim Flowers 	68,063 	59.32 	+6.76
 	Liberal 	Bart Vandebilt 	24,267 	21.15 	+3.03
 	Democrats 	Elaine Crean 	8,078 	7.04 	–7.60
 	Greens 	Josh Pablo 	7,160 	6.24 	–1.34
 	Wentworth 	Ted Fanning 	3,282 	2.86 	+0.81
 	Christian Alliance 	Amos Widjaja 	2,937 	2.56 	+1.60
 	Unity 	Lanlan Huo 	769 	0.67 	+0.67
 	Libertarian 	Michael Lavender 	184 	0.16 	–0.41
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	114,739 	95.07 	+0.65
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	5,954 	4.93 	–0.65
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	120,693 	87.91 	–2.04
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	Social Democrats 	Kim Flowers 	80,902 	70.51 	+4.21
 	Liberal 	Bart Vandebilt 	33,837 	29.49 	–4.21
 	Social Democrats hold 	Social Democrats hold 	Swing 	+4.21 	
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