Electoral district of Kensington

Kensington is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Wentworth Metropolis, first contested at the 1946 federal election. It is centred on Inner West Wentworth, and is named after Kensington, one of its suburbs.

The sitting member, since the 2014 election, is Ben Janik, a member of the Social Democratic Party.

History
The electorate of Kensington is located in Wentworth's Inner West, an area historically solidly working class. It was proclaimed at the 1946 redistribution, replacing a similarly located district known as Islington.

As a result of its demographics, the electorate was historically one of the safest seats for the Social Democrats in the Enderronian Parliament, and the party has held it continuously since its creation. Since the 1980s, demographic change brought on by gentrification and immigration has significantly altered the electorate's voting population. Despite the change, Kensington remains a safe SDP seat, although both it and the opposing Liberal Party has seen their vote gradually decline with the rise of the Greens.

Kensington has been represented by two of Enderron's most prominent female politicians. The first is Helen Newton, a women's rights activist and suffragette who served as the seat's member from 1946 to 1954, having previously represented the predecessor seat of Islington from 1934 to 1946 (making her the fourth woman to be elected to parliament in Enderron). The electoral district of Newton, which existed from 1966 to 1990, was named after her. The second is Sian O'Dwyer, a cabinet minister in the Vandenberg and Clarkson governments who represented the seat from 1981 to 2014, longer than any other female MP in Enderronian history.