20-553: McMahon or MacMahon ( / m ə k ˈ m æ n / mək- MAN or / m ə k ˈ m ɑː n / mək- MAHN ) may refer to: Places [ edit ] Division of McMahon , an electorate for the Australian House of Representatives McMahon, Saskatchewan , a hamlet in Canada McMahon Line , a boundary between India and China McMahons Point ,
40-781: 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 is located in the western suburbs of Sydney , and includes the suburbs of Erskine Park , Fairfield Heights , Greystanes , Guildford West , Horsley Park , Merrylands West , Minchinbury , Mount Vernon , Old Guildford , Pemulwuy , Smithfield , St Clair , Wetherill Park , and Woodpark ; as well as parts of Abbotsbury , Arndell Park , Blacktown , Bossley Park , Canley Vale , Cecil Park , Eastern Creek , Fairfield , Fairfield West , Guildford , Huntingwood , Kemps Creek , Merrylands , Orchard Hills , Prairiewood , Prospect , South Wentworthville , and Yennora . McMahon
60-625: A suburb of Sydney, Australia McMahons Point ferry wharf , its wharf McMahon Stadium , in Calgary, Alberta, Canada People [ edit ] McMahon (surname) McMahon family MacMahon family McMahon clans MacMahon brothers William McMahon , a former Prime Minister of Australia Other [ edit ] McMahon Act , or the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 McMahon government McMahon killings McMahon ministry McMahon system tournament ,
80-590: A tournament pairing system invented for Go competitions McMahon-Hussein Correspondence , an exchange of letters during World War I concerning the fate of the Middle East MacMahon's master theorem Mathgamain mac Cennétig Macmahon Holdings , an Australian infrastructure and mining company. MV Empire MacMahon See also [ edit ] McMahon House (disambiguation) Mahon (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
100-491: Is Chris Bowen , a member of the Australian Labor Party . The division was established in 2010 and is named in honour of former Australian Prime Minister Sir William McMahon . It replaced the abolished division of Prospect . The current Member for McMahon, since the 2010 federal election , is the former member for Prospect, Chris Bowen , former interim leader of the Australian Labor Party . In 2017,
120-538: Is a diverse electorate, with slightly fewer electors of immigrant background than nearby Blaxland , Watson , and Fowler . Common ancestries in McMahon include Assyrian , Iraqi , Chinese , and Italian Australians . It has a mix of adherents to Catholicism at 36.1%, Islam at 11.5%, and other religions. In the most recent election, Labor performed best in Fairfield , an ethnic enclave of Assyrians , while
140-582: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Division of McMahon The Division of McMahon ( / m ə k ˈ m ɑː n / mək- MAHN ) is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales . McMahon is located in Sydney 's Outer Western Suburbs. McMahon lies south of the Great Western Highway , roughly between Woodville Road and South Creek. The current MP
160-600: Is entitled (called apportionment ) and the boundaries of each electorate, in a process known as redistribution . Such apportionment and redistributions apply to the next federal election, but not to any by-elections. The last apportionment determination was made in July 2020. The resulting redistribution took place during 2021 and was used in the 2022 federal election , which was held on 21 May 2022. Within each state and territory, electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time. This takes place at least once every 7 years, or when
180-423: Is the case in most other legislatures around the world. Most divisions are named in honour of prominent historical people, such as former politicians (often Prime Ministers ), explorers, artists and engineers. There is also a preference for retaining names used since Federation. In some cases where a division is named after a geographical locality, the connection to that locality is sometimes tenuous. For instance,
200-938: The 2022 Australian federal election , based on the 2021 apportionment, there were 151 divisions: 47 in New South Wales, 39 in Victoria, 30 in Queensland, 15 in Western Australia, 10 in South Australia, 5 in Tasmania, 3 in the ACT and 2 in Northern Territory. The divisions of the House of Representatives are unusual in that many of them are not named after geographical features or numbered, as
220-516: The Liberal Party did best in the rural precincts of Kemps Creek and Horsley Park in the west. According to the 2016 census , 42.3% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home include Arabic 12.8%, Vietnamese 4.8%, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 4.1%, Spanish 2.1% and Mandarin 2.1%. 33°50′13″S 150°51′32″E / 33.837°S 150.859°E / -33.837; 150.859 Divisions of
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#1732764929876240-666: The Northern Territory should have only one electorate based on their population, parliament have legislated that they receive two (by setting the quota for seat allocation using the harmonic mean for territories, meaning only around 1.3 quotas rather than 1.5 quotas are needed to have two seats). In addition, Section 29 forbids electorate boundaries from crossing state lines, forcing populated areas along state and territory borders to be placed in different electorates, such as Albury in New South Wales being part of
260-461: The ACT and the whole of Jervis Bay Territory ), and the Division of Lingiari (covering part of the Northern Territory and the whole of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands ). The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 sets out further provisions. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) determines the number of members of the House of Representatives to which each state and territory
280-720: The Australian House of Representatives Electorates (also known as electoral divisions or seats ) of the Australian House of Representatives are single member electoral districts for the lower house of the Parliament of the Commonwealth . There are currently 151 electorates. Section 24 of the Constitution of Australia specifies that the total number of members of the Australian House of Representatives shall be "as nearly as practicable" twice as many as
300-649: The division had the third-highest percentage of "No" responses in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey , with 64.9% of the electorate's respondents to the survey responding "No". Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission . Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in
320-455: The electorate of Farrer , while nearby Wodonga in Victoria is part of the electorate of Indi . The same restriction does not apply to territories, and several current electoral divisions incorporate electors from multiple territories. This is currently the case for the Division of Bean (covering part of the ACT and the whole of Norfolk Island ), the Division of Fenner (covering part of
340-597: The number of members of the Australian Senate . The section also requires that electorates be apportioned among the states in proportion to their respective populations; provided that each original state has at least 5 members in the House of Representatives, a provision that has given Tasmania higher representation than its population would otherwise justify. There are three electorates in the Australian Capital Territory and even though
360-448: The number of voters vary by more than 3.5% from the average projected enrolment 3.5 years into the future. However, due to various reasons, larger seats like Cowper in New South Wales contain 80% more electors than that of smaller seats like Solomon in the Northern Territory . In 2018, seats in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia were also abolished, in order to make way for seats in similar locations but with different names. At
380-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title McMahon . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McMahon&oldid=1214314268 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
400-404: The state's entitlement to the number of members of the House of Representatives changes. Boundaries are drawn by a Redistribution Committee, and redistributions within a state are on the basis of the number of enrolled voters , rather than total residents or "population". The number of enrolled voters in each division cannot vary by more than 10% from the average across a state or territory, nor can
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