Electoral district of Stanhill

Stanhill
Electoral district of the House of Assembly
Member	Juliet Blake      (Democratic Party)
History
Created	New Ingrean general election, 1907
Named for	Stanhill, Centralia
Demographics
Electors	16,543

Stanhill is an electoral district of the House of Assembly. The constituency was created in 1907, and has continued to elect members at every election since.

Boundaries

When created in 1907, Stanhill the part of the county of Centralia that was coterminous with the newly-formed Stanhill Rural District. On it's foundation, Stanhill RDC had consisted of those parts of the East Riding north of the Great Central Road. With the creation of a new towns at Castlery and Donaldtown in the 1960s, the district began to contract more to the north and east. Today, the district is still more or less coterminous with the Stanhill RDC, and includes the all of the communities of Stanhill, Chandler, Silverton, St George, and Warmford Regis. The enrolment for Stanhill at the last election was 16,543.

Members of Parliament

Stanhill has typically been a safe seat for the Democratic Party (and before that, the Liberals) since it was formed. As part of the general decline of liberalism in the 1930s, the seat was held by the Labour Party until the collapse of support for social democracy at the 1952 election. Conservatives have only held the seat of five occasions, each time after a landslide election (1914, 1917, 1932, 1975, and 1992), and once after a by-election (2014).

Stanhill is also notable as being the seat of two Prime Ministers in Jonathan Braddock and Bill Howlett.

Election		Member	Party
	1907	Daniel Russell	Liberal Party
	1914	Charles Daly	Conservative Party
	1915		Coalition Ministry
	1920		Conservative Party
	1920	Thomas Richardson	Liberal Party
	1924	John Taylor-Woods	Liberal Party
	1932	William May	Country Party
	1935	Alfred Hopkins	Labour Party
	1952	Jonathan Braddock	Liberal Party
	1956		Democratic Party
	1975	Peter Hughes	National Party
	1978	Bill Howlett	Democratic Party
	1992	Simon Nesbitt	National Party
	1996	Tony Moore	Democratic Party
	2014	Bill Warren	National Party
	2020	Juliet Blake	Democratic Party