What was the name of the Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales?
Q: What was the name of the Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales?
A: The Division of Charlton.
Q: Who was it named after?
A: It was named for Matthew Charlton, leader of the Australian Labor Party 1922-28.
Q: What area did it cover?
A: It covered the Hunter Region area of New South Wales and included towns such as Cardiff, Wallsend, Toronto, Morisset, Cooranbong, Glendale and Warners Bay.
Q: When did it become obsolete?
A: In October 2015 the Australian Electoral Commission said that the division would be renamed at the next election due to population changes in New South Wales which resulted in one division being lost and a new one created in Western Australia.
Q: What happened to its former area when it became obsolete?
A: The old Division of Hunter was abolished and its area moved eastward to take over Charlton's former area.
Q: Why does this change involve keeping the Hunter name?
A: Because Hunter is an original Federation electorate, the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines for redistributions means it has to try and keep the Hunter name.
