Division of Banks

Banks Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Banks in New South Wales, as of the 2019 federal election
Created	1949
MP	David Coleman
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Sir Joseph Banks
Electors	107,786 (2022)
Area	53 km2 (20.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

The Division of Banks is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

History

Sir Joseph Banks, the division's namesake. A 1773 portrait by Joshua Reynolds.

The division was created in 1949 and is named for Sir Joseph Banks, the British naturalist and botanist who accompanied James Cook on his voyage to Australia in 1770. It has always been based in the south-western and southern suburbs of Sydney, including the suburbs of Padstow, Panania, Peakhurst and Revesby.

Up until 2013, it was held since its creation by the Australian Labor Party, but has grown increasingly marginal from the 1990s onward. It was almost lost in 2004, but the 2006 redistribution added areas to the west in Bankstown and Condell Park which strengthened the seat for Labor. Those areas were lost in the 2009 redistribution, which pushed Banks into new areas to the east, around Hurstville. Long-term Labor member, Daryl Melham, was defeated at the 2013 federal election by current member David Coleman. Coleman became the first non-Labor member for the seat, breaking a 64-year tradition.

Boundaries

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.

The division includes the suburbs of Allawah, East Hills, Hurstville Grove, Lugarno, Mortdale, Oatley, Padstow, Padstow Heights, Panania, Peakhurst, Peakhurst Heights, Picnic Point, Revesby Heights, and South Hurstville; and parts of Bankstown, Bankstown Aerodrome, Beverly Hills, Blakehurst, Carlton, Condell Park, Connells Point, Hurstville, Milperra, Narwee, Penshurst, Revesby, and Riverwood.

Demographics

2021 Australian census
Ancestry
Response	Banks	NSW	Australia
Chinese	20.0%	7.2%	5.5%
English	18.4%	29.8%	33.0%
Australian	18.4%	28.6%	29.9%
Irish	6.1%	9.1%	9.5%
Greek	6.0%	1.8%	1.7%
Country of birth
Response	Banks	NSW	Australia
Australia	55.9%	65.4%	66.9%
China	9.9%	3.1%	2.2%
Nepal	3.3%	0.8%	0.5%
Vietnam	1.9%	1.2%	1.0%
Hong Kong	1.8%	0.6%	0.4%
Lebanon	1.8%	0.8%	0.3%
Religious affiliation
Response	Banks	NSW	Australia
No religion	27.1%	32.8%	38.4%
Catholicism	22.7%	22.4%	20.0%
Anglicanism	8.5%	11.9%	9.8%
Eastern Orthodoxy	8.5%	2.5%	2.1%
Islam	6.3%	4.3%	3.2%
Language spoken at home
Response	Banks	NSW	Australia
English	49.1%	67.6%	72.0%
Mandarin	9.2%	3.4%	2.7%
Cantonese	7.3%	2.8%	1.2%
Arabic	5.4%	2.8%	1.4%
Greek	3.8%	1.0%	0.9%
Nepali	3.4%	0.8%	0.5%

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Eric Costa (1900–1976)	Labor	10 December 1949 – 29 September 1969	Retired
		Vince Martin (1920–2001)		25 October 1969 – 19 September 1980	Lost preselection and retired
		John Mountford (1933–2022)		18 October 1980 – 19 February 1990	Retired
		Daryl Melham (1954–)		24 March 1990 – 7 September 2013	Lost seat
		David Coleman (1974–)	Liberal	7 September 2013 – present	Served as minister under Turnbull and Morrison. Incumbent

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Banks

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in New South Wales § Banks.[edit]

2022 Australian federal election: Banks

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Coleman	41,622	45.22	−5.70
	Labor	Zhi Soon	32,459	35.26	−1.09
	Greens	Natalie Hanna	8,063	8.76	+2.94
	United Australia	Marika Momircevski	5,048	5.48	+3.27
	One Nation	Malcolm Heffernan	2,628	2.86	+2.86
	Liberal Democrats	Elouise Cocker	1,264	1.37	+1.37
		Steve Khouw	961	1.04	+1.04
Total formal votes			92,045	93.36	+0.56
Informal votes			6,550	6.64	−0.56
Turnout			98,595	91.55	−1.48
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	David Coleman	48,969	53.20	−3.06
	Labor	Zhi Soon	43,076	46.80	+3.06
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.06

Primary vote results in Banks (parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Liberal

  Labor

  Lang Labor

  Australia Party / Australian Democrats

  Greens

  Democratic Labour Party

  Communist Party of Australia

  Independent

  One Nation

  Palmer United/United Australia Party

  Christian Democrats

  Against Further Immigration

Two-candidate-preferred results in Banks

External links

• Division of Banks - Australian Electoral Commission