Division of Kooyong

The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was one of the divisions for the first Federal election in 1901. It includes the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Balwyn, Canterbury, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. It is named after the suburb of Kooyong. Kooyong is an Indigenous Australian word meaning resting place.^[1] Because of boundary changes over the years, the suburb of Kooyong is no longer in the Division and is now in the Division of Higgins.

Kooyong Australian House of Representatives Division
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Created	1901
MP	Monique Ryan
Party	Independent
Namesake	Kooyong, Victoria
Electors	89,626 (2010)
Area	49 km2 (18.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

Members

Member		Party	Term
	William Knox	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1901–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
	Sir Robert Best	Commonwealth Liberal	1910–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1922
	John Latham	Liberal Union	1922–1925
		Nationalist	1925–1931
		United Australia	1931–1934
	Sir Robert Menzies	United Australia	1934–1944
		Liberal	1944–1966
	Andrew Peacock	Liberal	1966–1994
	Petro Georgiou	Liberal	1994–2010
	Josh Frydenberg	Liberal	2010–2022
	Monique Ryan	Independent	2022–present

Kooyong has been held by non-Labor parties since 1901. Famous members include the Opposition Leader and later Chief Justice John Latham, Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock.

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Kooyong[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Josh Frydenberg	43,736	42.66	−6.51
	Independent	Monique Ryan	41,303	40.29	+40.29
	Labor	Peter Lynch	7,091	6.92	−10.60
	Greens	Piers Mitchem	6,461	6.30	−14.78
	Liberal Democrats	Alexandra Thom	1,080	1.05	+1.05
	United Australia	Scott Hardiman	1,011	0.99	−0.22
	One Nation	Josh Coyne	741	0.72	+0.72
	Animal Justice	Rachael Nehmer	500	0.49	−0.65
	Independent	Will Anderson	265	0.26	+0.26
	Justice	Michele Dale	177	0.17	+0.12
	Australian Values	David Connolly	152	0.15	+0.15
Total formal votes			102,517	97.11	+0.08
Informal votes			3,046	2.89	−0.08
Turnout			105,563	93.44	−2.39
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Liberal	Josh Frydenberg	55,542	54.18	−2.21
	Labor	Peter Lynch	46,975	45.82	+2.21
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Independent	Monique Ryan	54,276	52.94	+52.94
	Liberal	Josh Frydenberg	48,241	47.06	−8.36
	Independent gain from Liberal		Swing	+52.94