Electoral district of Cheltenham

Cheltenham is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Cooksland Prefecture, first contested at the 1950 federal election. It encompasses the outer eastern suburbs of Rockingham, and is named after the suburb of Cheltenham.

The sitting member, since the 2018 federal election, is Mike Woods, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Enderron.

History
Cheltenham is centred on its namesake, the outer eastern suburb of Cheltenham. It is traditionally a Social Democratic electorate, being won by the Liberals and their predecessors only at high-tide elections. The seat was marginal before the 1970s.

The electorate is very polarised geographically, with heavily SDP-leaning areas in the centre and east, and Liberal-leaning areas to the north, west and south. As such, the political landscape changes frequently with redistributions. The Liberal Party's win in Cheltenham in the 2002 and 2006 elections was assisted by a redistribution expanding Cheltenham into the Liberal-voting inner eastern suburbs, while successive redistributions have pushed the seat towards more SDP-friendly territory in the outer east. The creation of the new seat of Druitt in the inner east has strengthened the SDP's hold on Cheltenham in recent elections.