Electoral district of Kensington

Kensington肯辛顿 Kěnxīndùnケンジントン KenjintonEnderronian Parliament 	Kensington肯辛顿 Kěnxīndùnケンジントン KenjintonEnderronian Parliament
Location of Kensington in Wentworth Metropolis 	Location of Kensington in Wentworth Metropolis
District Details 	District Details
Created 	1946
MP 	Ben Janik
Party 	Social Democrats
Namesake 	Kensington, Wentworth
Electors 	139,698
Area 	TBA km²
Demographic 	Inner metropolitan
Kensington is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Wentworth Metropolis, first contested at the 1946 federal election. It is centred on Inner West Wentworth, and is named after Kensington, one of its suburbs.
The sitting member, since the 2014 election, is Ben Janik, a member of the Social Democratic Party.
==History==
The electorate of Kensington is located in Wentworth's Inner West, an area historically solidly working class. It was proclaimed at the 1946 redistribution, replacing a similarly located district known as Islington.
As a result of its demographics, the electorate was historically one of the safest seats for the Social Democrats in the Enderronian Parliament, and the party has held it continuously since its creation. Since the 1980s, demographic change brought on by gentrification and immigration has significantly altered the electorate's voting population. Despite the change, Kensington remains a safe SDP seat, although both it and the opposing Liberal Party has seen their vote gradually decline with the rise of the Greens.
Kensington has been represented by two of Enderron's most prominent female politicians. The first is Helen Newton, a women's rights activist and suffragette who served as the seat's member from 1946 to 1954, having previously represented the predecessor seat of Islington from 1934 to 1946 (making her the fourth woman to be elected to parliament in Enderron). The electoral district of Newton, which existed from 1966 to 1990, was named after her. The second is Sian O'Dwyer, a cabinet minister in the Vandenberg and Clarkson governments who represented the seat from 1981 to 2014, longer than any other female MP in Enderronian history.
==Members==
#	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1	width="3%"	Helen Newton 	Social Democrats	1946–1954
2	 	Scott Jackson	Social Democrats	1954–1981
3	 	Sian O'Dwyer 	Social Democrats	1981–2014
4	 	Ben Janik 	Social Democrats	2014–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Kensington	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Kensington	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Kensington	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Kensington	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Kensington	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Kensington
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Social Democrats 	Ben Janik 	55,192 	42.57 	+2.71
 	Liberal 	Rutger Lange 	33,229 	25.63 	–3.48
 	Greens 	Nick Gaven 	28,328 	21.85 	–1.82
 	Pirate 	Patrick Taniguchi 	5,640 	4.35 	+4.35
 	Wentworth 	Annika Brankovic 	4,227 	3.26 	–1.10
 	Unity 	Wyatt Wee 	1,945 	1.50 	–0.43
 	Christian Alliance 	Emily Arata 	1,089 	0.84 	+0.84
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	129,649 	97.05 	+0.76
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	3,935 	2.95 	–0.76
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	133,584 	95.62 	–0.56
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 	Ben Janik 	82,314 	63.49 	+2.52
 	Liberal 	Rutger Lange 	47,335 	36.51 	–2.52
 	Social Democrats hold 	Social Democrats hold 	Swing 	+2.52 	
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