Electoral district of Minato

Minato港区 Gǎngqū港区 Minato-kuEnderronian Parliament 	Minato港区 Gǎngqū港区 Minato-kuEnderronian Parliament
Location of Minato in Greater Shirakawa 	Location of Minato in Greater Shirakawa
District Details 	District Details
Created 	1978
MP 	Marilyn Richards
Party 	Liberal
Namesake 	Minato, Tojima
Electors 	130,216
Area 	TBA km²
Demographic 	Inner metropolitan
Minato is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture, first contested at the 1978 federal election. It is named for the suburb of Minato in Shirakawa, and is located in the city's inner southwest harbourside area, including the Port of Shirakawa.
The sitting member, since the 1998 federal election, is Marilyn Richards, a member of the Liberal Party of Enderron.
==History==
Minato was proclaimed at the 1978 redistribution, being carved out of the heavily Social Democrat-leaning Shirakawa Central. Originally, it was anchored in the industrial suburbs in the east of the electorate. While Shirakawa Central remains one of the Social Democratic Party's safest seats, Minato was far more marginal due to the inclusion of wealthier territory towards the western end of the electorate. At its first election, it was narrowly claimed by the United Party, but was won by the Social Democrats at the following election in 1982. It would remain in the SDP column, albeit on consistently tenuous margins, until the 1998 election. Gentrification and further redistributions have made the seat increasingly secure for the Liberals. Parallels have been drawn between Minato and the Wentworth electorate of Docklands, for their similar electoral geography and demographic changes since the late 1990s, transforming from industrial SDP-leaning areas to affluent safe Liberal seats.
==Members==
#	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1	width="3%"	Walt Dustin 	United 	1978–1982
2	 	Makoko Tahara 	Social Democrats	1982–1984
2	 	Makoko Tahara 	Tojima People's 	1984–1986
3	 	Seiko Yoshida-Walsh	Social Democrats	1986–1998
4	 	Marilyn Richards 	Conservative 	1998–2000
4	 	Marilyn Richards 	Liberal 	2000–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Minato	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Minato	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Minato	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Minato	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Minato	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Minato
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Liberal 	Marilyn Richards 	61,444 	50.72 	–0.79
 	Social Democrats 	Stephanie Dayton 	21,152 	17.46 	+4.17
 	Greens 	Christine Bui 	16,463 	13.59 	+2.03
 	Tojima First 	Yori Takahashi 	10,164 	8.39 	–2.94
 	Pirate 	Chunghee Heo 	5,427 	4.48 	+4.48
 	Independent 	Ji Suzuki 	2,774 	2.29 	+2.29
 	Anti-Development 	Wheeler Kierstead 	2,750 	2.27 	–0.84
 	Libertarian 	Lindsay Sun 	969 	0.80 	–0.27
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	121,143 	95.12 	–0.51
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	6,215 	4.88 	+0.51
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	127,358 	97.81 	+2.50
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 	Marilyn Richards 	81,965 	67.66 	–5.15
 	Social Democrats 	Stephanie Dayton 	39,178 	32.34 	+5.15
 	Liberal hold 	Liberal hold 	Swing 	–5.15 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Tojima Prefecture
Akagi · Durston · Harvey · Higashi · Itabashi · Kamijima · Kawayama · Kitaoka · Minato · Nakamura · Nishihama · Rijkens · Shirakawa Central · Shirakawa South