Australian electorates - Definition and Overview

The Australian House of Representatives has 150 members, each of whom represents an electoral Division, commonly known as an electorate or a seat.

• For a list of members of the current House of Representatives and the electorates they represent, see List of members of the Australian House of Representatives.
• For a description of how the House of Representatives is elected, see Australian electoral system.
• For an electoral history of each Division since Federation in 1901, see Adam Carr's Electoral Archive: Index of House of Representatives Divisions 1901-2001 (http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/divisions/divisions.shtml)

Related articles

• Politics of Australia
• Parliament of Australia
• Australian legislative election, 2004

External link

• Australian Electoral Commission website, with maps of each Commonwealth Electoral Division (http://www.aec.gov.au)