Division of Kirkby

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Division Details 	Division Details 	Division Details 	
Created 	2015 	 	
MP 	Linda Remington 	 	
Party 	Conservative 	 	
Namesake 	Virginia Kirkby 	 	
Electors 	100,910 	 	
Demographic 	Outer metropolitan 	 	
The Division of Kirkby is a Craftian federal division in the state of Meyang. It was created in 2015 and was first contested at the 2016 federal election. It is named after award-winning Craftian author and biographer Virginia Kirkby (1909–1972). The division is coastal, and stretches from the northern suburbs of Yoollagarra to semi-urban areas north of the city.
The sitting member, since the 2055 federal election, is Linda Remington, the leader of the Craftian Conservative Party.
==History==
The northern suburbs of Yoollagarra are among the safest Conservative strongholds in the country, due to a very high proportion of affluent and high-income families. This is combined with the conservative agricultural regions on the outskirts of the Yoollagarra metropolitan area to make Kirkby one of the heaviest-voting Conservative seats. The seat has only been held by three members since it was first contested in 2016, and has never been lost by the Conservative Party – the lowest percentage of the two-party-preferred vote it has ever received is 62 percent. Although today it does not have the largest majority, it is still regarded as the party's safest seat ever, with no signs of vote decline.
Kirkby is regarded as a 'leadership seat', with all three MPs having held important positions in the Conservative Party: Owen Steele was Deputy Leader from 2027 to 2036, Marvel Lu held multiple cabinet portfolios including Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Queanbeyan Government, and Linda Remington has held the position of party leader since 2073; additionally, she was Deputy Leader from 2067 to 2073.
The seat is also notable for consistently having one of the highest informal voting rates in the country (often in excess of 10 percent). It has been argued by psephologists that this is due to the extremely safe nature of the seat, causing a high protest vote.
==Members==
#	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1	width="3%"	Owen Steele 	Conservative	2016–2036
2	 	Marvel Lu 	Conservative	2036–2055
3	 	Linda Remington	Conservative	2055–
==Election results==
Craftian federal election, 2070: Kirkby	Craftian federal election, 2070: Kirkby	Craftian federal election, 2070: Kirkby	Craftian federal election, 2070: Kirkby	Craftian federal election, 2070: Kirkby	Craftian federal election, 2070: Kirkby
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Conservative 	Linda Remington 	56,644 	70.18 	–1.37
 	United 	Ben Law 	10,130 	12.55 	+4.10
 	Reform 	Lionel Weist 	6,409 	7.94 	–3.84
 	Liberal 	Shelley Gallucci 	5,061 	6.27 	+1.28
 	Greens 	William Aman 	1,065 	1.32 	–0.55
 	Mojang 	Akiko Date 	944 	1.17 	+1.17
 	Liberal Democrats 	Mila Qi 	460 	0.57 	–0.02
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	80,713 	88.46 	+1.49
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	10,525 	11.54 	–1.49
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	91,238 	90.42 	–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 	Linda Remington 	61,084 	75.68 	–1.21
 	United 	Ben Law 	19,629 	24.32 	+1.21
 	Conservative hold 	Conservative hold 	Swing 	–1.21 	
Electoral divisions of the Craftian House of Representatives in Meyang
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