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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Bean, Australian Capital Territory
Named for: Charles Bean (1879-1968), war correspondent and historian
Southern Canberra: Kambah, Molonglo Valley, Tuggeranong, Weston Creek, Woden Valley
Enrolment at 2019 election: 104,482
Enrolment at 2022 election: 109,432 (+04.9)
2023 Voice referendum: Yes 56.3
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Sitting member: David Smith (Labor): Elected 2019, 2022
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2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.5%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 13.0%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 2019-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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David Smith
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Division of Bean
Bean was created at the 2018 redistribution when the Australian Capital Territory became eligible for a third seat as a result
of Canberra's rapid growth. It covers the southern half of the old seat of Canberra, inluding the
city's southern suburbs and the thinly-populated rural south of the territory, which is mostly national park. It is
roughly analogous to the seat of Namadgi, which existed from 1996 to 1998, the last time the ACT qualified (briefly) for
three seats.
Like the rest of Canberra, Bean has a high proportion of government employees, a high level of income and a high
level of education. However, it is less affluent and less public-service oriented than the other two ACT seats, Canberra and Fenner, and
has a fairly high level of traditional families paying mortgages. It is therefore more politically marginal than Canberra and Fenner,
though still basically a Labor seat. The Liberals have not won a federal seat in the ACT since the Canberra by-election of
1995.
Gai Brodtmann, Labor MP for Canberra, announced that she would be transferring to Bean at the 2019 election.
But in August 2018 she announced that instead she would be retiring for personal reasons. Labor then endorsed Senator
David Smith, who had inherited
Katy Gallagher's Senate seat when she was knocked out by the High Court over section 44.
David Smith, Labor MP for Bean since 2019, was born and educated in Canberra, and was a public servant and advisor before
entering politics. Most recently he was director of the ACT branch of Professionals Australia. At the 2016 election he was chosen
for the unwinnable second position on the Labor Senate ticket in the ACT. He was declared elected in May 2018 when Senator
Gallagher was found to be ineligible. He resigned from the Senate in April 2019 and was elected for Bean. Although the seat in
marginal, he is unlikely to be seriously threatened.
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