Division of Winston

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Division Details 	Division Details 	Division Details 	
Created 	1970 	 	
MP 	Bruce Kerry 	 	
Party 	Conservative 	 	
Namesake 	Francis Winston 	 	
Electors 	116,245 (2070) 	 	
Demographic 	Provincial 	 	
The Division of Winston is a Craftian federal division in the state of Wintaro. It was created in 1970 and named after political activist Francis Winston (1902–1961). The division was first contested in the 1971 general election. It covers the city of Novena and its suburbs. It is one of the few remaining divisions to have been contested before independence and the first federal election in 1986.
The sitting member, since the 2039 by-election, is Bruce Kerry, a member of the Craftian Conservative Party.
==History==
The Division of Winston originally covered the south-eastern corner of the state and was around an eighth of the total area of Wintaro, but successive redistributions have cut back on the boundaries significantly since its original form, due to population growth and demographic changes. Today, the seat covers little more than the city of Novena and its suburban sprawl.
The division has always been fairly safe for centre-right parties. Its prominent members include former Prime Minister Steve Bergensten, who held the seat between 1981 and 1995 (he was no longer the member for the seat when he became Prime Minister in 2002). Bergensten switched party affiliation thrice during his tenure as MP for Winston, first to the Craftian Democrats from the National Party of Craftia in 1986, then to the Craftia Liberty Party in 1989. He then founded the Liberal Party of Craftia in 1995. He was forced to contest another seat (Notchropolis) in 1995 due to a redistribution making the seat a notionally fairly safe centre-right seat. However, the division was held by the CLP until 1998 and again from 2005 to 2013.
The seat is now one of the Conservative Party's safest seats, currently held on a margin of 24.79%. Numerous redistributions have removed the left-leaning parts of the electorate such as the rural outskirts of Novena. As a whole, the state of Wintaro is noticeably more right-leaning than the rest of the country, and the city of Novena is particularly conservative even by Wintaro standards. The Conservatives have held the seat for all but three years since 2013, and without interruption since 2022. Its current member, Bruce Kerry, is the current Father of the Craftian House of Representatives, having held the seat for more than 34 years.
==Members==
# 	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1 	width="3%"	Brian Maloney 	Labour 	1971–1974
2 	 	Jamie White 	National 	1974–1981
3 	 	Steve Bergensten	National 	1981–1986
3 	 	Steve Bergensten	Democrats 	1986–1989
3 	 	Steve Bergensten	Liberty 	1989–1995
3 	 	Steve Bergensten	Liberal 	1995
4 	 	James Ishibashi 	Liberty 	1995–1998
5 	 	Clinton Wenne 	Conservative	1998–2005
(4)	 	James Ishibashi 	Liberty 	2005–2013
6 	 	Ron Trent 	Conservative	2013–2019
7 	 	Chrissie Lyon 	United 	2019–2022
8 	 	Jacqueline Levy 	Conservative	2022–2032
9 	 	Tim Eu 	Conservative	2032–2039
10 	 	Bruce Kerry 	Conservative	2039–
==Election results==
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Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Conservative 	Bruce Kerry 	68,556 	69.19 	–0.52
 	United 	Erica Zheng 	11,127 	11.23 	+2.37
 	Liberal 	Emiko Mori 	6,242 	6.30 	–0.08
 	Reform 	Darrah Lin 	6,074 	6.13 	–1.82
 	Republican 	James Orwell 	2,556 	2.58 	+2.58
 	Greens 	Julian Hix 	2,249 	2.27 	+0.76
 	Liberal Democrats 	Michelle Barrick 	1,298 	1.31 	–0.44
 	Libertarian 	Whitney Sims 	981 	0.99 	+0.99
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	99,083 	95.05 	–1.67
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	5,159 	4.95 	+1.67
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	104,242 	89.67 	+1.33
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	Conservative 	Bruce Kerry 	74,104 	74.79 	–1.29
 	United 	Erica Zheng 	24,979 	25.21 	+1.29
 	Conservative hold 	Conservative hold 	Swing 	–1.29 	
Electoral divisions of the Craftian House of Representatives in Wintaro
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