Division of Griffith

The Division of Griffith is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. It was created in 1934. It is named for Sir Samuel Griffith, 9th Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and principal author of the Constitution of Australia.^[1] It was represented from 1998 to 2013 by Kevin Rudd, who was Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and from June to September 2013. On 13 November 2013, Rudd announced that he would resign from parliament at the end of week and retire from politics.

Griffith Australian House of Representatives Division
Map Interactive map of boundaries
Created	1934
Namesake	Samuel Griffith
Electors	92,573 (2010)
Area	60 km2 (23.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

Boundaries

Griffith is in the inner southern suburbs of Brisbane, including Balmoral, Bulimba, Camp Hill, Carina Heights, Coorparoo, Dutton Park, East Brisbane, Greenslopes, Highgate Hill, Hawthorne, Kangaroo Point, Morningside, Norman Park, Seven Hills, South Brisbane, and Woolloongabba, and parts of Annerley, Cannon Hill, Carina, Holland Park, Holland Park West, Mount Gravatt East, Murarrie, Tarragindi, and West End.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Francis Baker	Labor	1934–1939
	William Conelan	Labor	1939–1949
	Douglas Berry	Liberal	1949–1954
	Wilfred Coutts	Labor	1954–1958
	Arthur Chresby	Liberal	1958–1961
	Wilfred Coutts	Labor	1961–1966
	Donald Cameron	Liberal	1966–1977
	Ben Humphreys	Labor	1977–1996
	Graeme McDougall	Liberal	1996–1998
	Kevin Rudd	Labor	1998–2013
	Terri Butler	Labor	2013–2022
	Max Chandler-Mather	Greens	2022–2025

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Griffith[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Greens	Max Chandler-Mather	36,771	34.59	+10.94
	Liberal National	Olivia Roberts	32,685	30.74	−10.23
	Labor	Terri Butler	30,769	28.94	−2.01
	One Nation	Shari Ware	3,504	3.30	+1.18
	United Australia	Robert McMullan	2,581	2.43	+0.98
Total formal votes			106,310	98.00	+0.26
Informal votes			2,169	2.00	−0.26
Turnout			108,479	89.45	−1.60
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Labor	Terri Butler	64,923	61.07	+8.21
	Liberal National	Olivia Roberts	41,387	38.93	−8.21
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Greens	Max Chandler-Mather	64,271	60.46	+60.46
	Liberal National	Olivia Roberts	42,039	39.54	−7.59
	Greens gain from Labor		Swing	+60.46