Division of Corangamite

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The Division of Corangamite is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Lake Corangamite.

It is located in the Western District of Victoria and has always included the regional centre of Colac, but today most of its voters live in the southern suburbs of Geelong or coastal communities such as Anglesea and Queenscliff.

Until the 1930s it was a marginal seat which was occasionally won by the Australian Labor Party. In 1918 it was the first seat won by the newly formed Country Party. It was generally considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia from the 1940s to the late 1990s, but became increasingly less safe due to demographic changes. This resulted in the seat falling to Labor at the 2007 federal election for the first time since 1929.

	Party	Term
Chester Manifold	Protectionist	1901—1903
Gratton Wilson	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1903—1909
Gratton Wilson	Commonwealth Liberal	1909—1910
James Scullin	Labor	1910—1913
Chester Manifold	Commonwealth Liberal	1913—1916
Chester Manifold	Nationalist	1916—1918
William Gibson	Country	1918—1929
Richard Crouch	Labor	1929—1931
William Gibson	Country	1931—1934
Geoffrey Street	United Australia	1934—1940
Allan McDonald	United Australia	1940—1944
Allan McDonald	Liberal	1944—1953
Daniel Mackinnon	Liberal	1953—1966
Tony Street	Liberal	1966—1984
Stewart McArthur	Liberal	1984—2007
Darren Cheeseman	Labor	2007—present

Australian federal election, 2004: Corangamite
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stewart McArthur	44,060	52.05	+4.89
	Labor	Peter McMullin	31,105	36.75	+3.20
	Greens	Stephen Chenery	6,355	7.51	+1.19
	Family First	Christine Modra	2,318	3.74	+2.74
	Socialist Alliance	Chris Johnson	491	0.58	+0.58
	Citizens Electoral Council	Andrew Bailey	313	0.37	+0.37
Turnout			87,294	96.06	-0.18
2-Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Stewart McArthur	46,828	55.32	-0.05
	Labor	Peter McMullin	37,814	44.68	+0.05
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.05