Electoral district of Cheltenham

Cheltenham切滕安 Qièténg'ānチェルトナム CherutonamuEnderronian Parliament 	Cheltenham切滕安 Qièténg'ānチェルトナム CherutonamuEnderronian Parliament 	Cheltenham切滕安 Qièténg'ānチェルトナム CherutonamuEnderronian Parliament
Location of Cheltenham in Greater Rockingham 	Location of Cheltenham in Greater Rockingham 	Location of Cheltenham in Greater Rockingham
District Details 	District Details 	District Details
Created 	1950 	
MP 	Mike Woods 	
Party 	Social Democrats 	
Namesake 	Cheltenham, Cooksland 	
Electors 	138,535 	
Area 	TBA km² 	
Demographic 	Outer metropolitan 	
Cheltenham is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Cooksland Prefecture, first contested at the 1950 federal election. It encompasses the outer eastern suburbs of Rockingham, and is named after the suburb of Cheltenham.
The sitting member, since the 2018 federal election, is Mike Woods, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Enderron.
==History==
Cheltenham is centred on its namesake, the outer eastern suburb of Cheltenham. It is traditionally a Social Democratic electorate, being won by the Liberals and their predecessors only at high-tide elections. The seat was marginal before the 1970s.
The electorate is very polarised geographically, with heavily SDP-leaning areas in the centre and east, and Liberal-leaning areas to the north, west and south. As such, the political landscape changes frequently with redistributions. The Liberal Party's win in Cheltenham in the 2002 and 2006 elections was assisted by a redistribution expanding Cheltenham into the Liberal-voting inner eastern suburbs, while successive redistributions have pushed the seat towards more SDP-friendly territory in the outer east. The creation of the new seat of Druitt in the inner east has strengthened the SDP's hold on Cheltenham in recent elections.
==Members==
# 	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1 	width="3%"	Rhys Garland 	Social Democrats	1950–1961
2 	 	Mike Saunders 	Social Democrats	1961–1978
3 	 	Doug Caines 	Social Democrats	1978–1986
4 	 	Mitchell Dawe 	United 	1986–1990
(3)	 	Doug Caines 	Social Democrats	1990–1993
5 	 	Roger Caines 	Social Democrats	1993–2002
6 	 	Angela Walker 	Liberal 	2002–2010
7 	 	Chelsea Caines	Social Democrats	2010–2018
8 	 	Mike Woods 	Social Democrats	2018–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Cheltenham	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Cheltenham	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Cheltenham	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Cheltenham	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Cheltenham	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Cheltenham
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Social Democrats 	Mike Woods 	70,428 	56.35 	–1.41
 	Liberal 	Martin Kending 	22,647 	18.12 	–2.70
 	Democrats 	Tim Reynolds 	16,860 	13.49 	+4.05
 	Greens 	Jonas Abioye 	8,299 	6.64 	–0.18
 	National 	Kylie Rother 	4,049 	3.24 	+0.76
 	Left Bloc 	Tessa Tang 	1,725 	1.38 	+1.38
 	Libertarian 	Jack Vermont 	975 	0.78 	–1.06
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	124,984 	98.25 	+0.68
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	2,227 	1.75 	–0.68
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	127,211 	91.83 	–1.49
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 	Mike Woods 	89,041 	71.53 	+1.61
 	Liberal 	Martin Kending 	35,583 	28.47 	–1.61
 	Social Democrats hold 	Social Democrats hold 	Swing 	+1.61 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Cooksland Prefecture
Cheltenham · Druitt · Endeavour · Marshall Bay · Mayfair · Normanhurst · Oxley · Reedijk · Rockingham North · Rockingham South · Scott · Wilson