Division of Waratah

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Division Details	Division Details 	Division Details	
Created 	1986 	 	
MP 	Iva Spaker 	 	
Party 	United 	 	
Namesake 	Waratah plant 	 	
Electors 	104,157 	 	
Demographic 	Outer metropolitan	 	
The Division of Waratah is a Craftian federal division in the state of Jebsten. It is one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named after the native waratah plant, abundant in the southern suburbs of Notchropolis which forms the main area in which the division covers.
The sitting member, since the 2061 federal election, is Iva Spaker, a member of the National United Party.
==History==
While the southern suburbs of Notchropolis have been heavily United-voting since the seat's creation, Waratah was previously a much larger electorate, spanning from the outer suburbs to parts of the conservative provincial Jebsten hinterland in the south of the state. This made Waratah a somewhat marginal seat, frequently changing hands between the left and right, as well as a relatively reliable bellwether, thanks to its status as a 'mortgage belt' seat. While on paper it appeared to be a relatively safe United seat, the party usually only held it on margins of less than five percent. However, since the 2030s, it has trended strongly towards the United Party, and with the creation of the Division of Changshou in 2049, most of the Conservative-voting territory was eliminated from Waratah. Today it is now one of the NUP's safest seats, and is approximately a fifth of its former size, now only covering the outer southern suburbs of the city.
==Members==
# 	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1 	width="3%"	Christopher Ottley 	Liberty 	1987–1990
2 	 	Barney Warner 	National 	1990–1995
3 	 	Bryan Tsai-wen Chen	United 	1995–1998
4 	 	Scott Parker 	Conservative	1998–2001
(3)	 	Bryan Tsai-wen Chen	United 	2001–2007
5 	 	Karen McBride 	United 	2007–2016
6 	 	Lee Boise 	Conservative	2016–2019
7 	 	Jimmy O'Brien 	United 	2019–2028
8 	 	Zack Boise 	Conservative	2028–2031
(7)	 	Jimmy O'Brien 	United 	2031–2035
9 	 	Casey Lin-McDougall	United 	2035–2040
10 	 	Shelby Donnellsen 	United 	2040–2049
11 	 	Nick Philippou 	United 	2049–2061
12 	 	Iva Spaker 	United 	2061–
==Election results==
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Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	United 	Iva Spaker 	45,253 	47.52 	+0.66
 	Conservative 	Scarlett Gilmartin 	23,027 	24.18 	–1.08
 	Liberal 	Rin Tonkin 	21,760 	22.85 	+3.74
 	Greens 	Porter Minh 	2,066 	2.17 	–0.18
 	Independent 	Tom Luber 	1,609 	1.69 	+1.69
 	Mojang 	William Angelos 	1,267 	1.33 	–0.79
 	Libertarian 	Gene Ranking 	248 	0.26 	+0.26
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	95,230 	98.09 	+0.02
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	1,854 	1.11 	–0.02
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	97,084 	93.21 	+1.60
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	United 	Iva Spaker 	66,071 	69.38 	+1.72
 	Conservative 	Scarlett Gilmartin 	29,159 	30.62 	–1.72
 	United hold 	United hold 	Swing 	+1.72 	
Electoral divisions of the Craftian House of Representatives in Jebsten
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