Division of McEwen

The Division of McEwen is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is north of the capital city of Melbourne. It includes Broadford, Craigieburn, Doreen, Kilmore, Lancefield, New Gisborne, Riddells Creek, Romsey, Seymour, Sunbury, Wallan and Whittlesea.

It was set up in 1984 and named after Sir John McEwen, leader of the Country Party of Australia. McEwen was caretaker Prime Minister of Australia after the disappearance of Harold Holt in 1967.

In 2007 Fran Bailey lost the election by only six votes. She asked for the votes to be recounted and she won by 12 votes The result was challenged in the High Court of Australia and was referred to the Federal Court of Australia. Seven months later, and after carefully checking 643 individual ballot papers, the court found Bailey had won by 31 votes. Later Bailey called for big changes the voting system.Mitchell v Bailey (No 2) 2008 FCA 692: Federal Court of Australia Decisions 2/7/2008

Members
MemberPartyTerm  Peter Cleeland Labor 1984–1990  Fran Bailey Liberal 1990–1993  Peter Cleeland Labor 1993–1996  Fran Bailey Liberal 1996–2010  Rob Mitchell Labor 2010–present
Fran Bailey was  Minister for Employment Services, Assistant Minister for Defence, and later Minister for Small Business and Tourism during the Howard Government.

Election results

References

Other websites
 Division of McEwen – Australian Electoral Commission
 Rob Mitchell's website

Category:Electoral divisions of Victoria, Australia
Category:1984 establishments in Australia