Electoral district of Mizuoka

Mizuoka 水冈 Shuǐgāng 水岡 Mizuoka Enderronian Parliament
File:MizuokaElectorate.png Location of Mizuoka in Kaigan
District Details
Created	1946
MP	Jack Lotus
Party	Social Democrats
Namesake	Mizuoka
Electors	138,447
Area	TBA km²
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

Mizuoka is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Kaigan Prefecture. It was created in 1946 and first contested at the federal election later that year. It encompasses the central business district of Mizuoka and the surrounding inner suburbs.

The sitting member, since the 2006 federal election, is Jack Lotus, a member of the Social Democratic Party.

History

The city of Mizuoka was traditionally a heavily working class region. At its creation, the Mizuoka electorate covered a wide region much larger than the city's metropolitan area at the time, and included the neighbouring city of Taralga. Due to these factors, Mizuoka was a safe seat for the Social Democrats for most of its early history. Over the latter half of the 20th century, the city's working class industry was surpassed by tourism and service industries, and grew increasingly marginal. The SDP's 40-year run in Mizuoka was broken when it was picked up by the United Party as it won government in the 1986 federal election. It returned to the SDP in the 1990 federal election, and has since tended to be a marginal seat for that party.

Although not viewed as a traditional bellwether seat, Mizuoka was won by the party that formed government at every election from 1970 to 2006.

Members

#	Member		Party	Term
1		P. J. Mulherin	Social Democrats	1946–1961
2		Ros Harcourt	Social Democrats	1961–1970
3		Aaron Crowe	Social Democrats	1970–1982
4		Paul Jovanovski	Social Democrats	1982–1986
5		Elliot Pegg	United	1986–1990
(4)		Paul Jovanovski	Social Democrats	1990–2002
6		Julia Zhou	Liberal	2002–2006
7		Jack Lotus	Social Democrats	2006–

Election results

Enderronian federal election, 2018: Mizuoka
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democrats	Jack Lotus	48,445	38.80	–1.31
	Liberal	Andrew Sauvage	47,833	38.31	–1.08
	Greens	Tanya Pan	20,377	16.32	+3.09
	Libertarian	Barbara Mah	4,345	3.48	+1.77
	Independent	Jake Ishibashi	1,860	1.49	+1.49
	Unity	Douglas Wan	1,673	1.34	–0.53
	Liberty Conservative	Victor Preston	325	0.26	+0.26
Total formal votes			124,857	94.79	–1.55
Informal votes			6,869	5.21	+1.55
Turnout			131,726	95.15	+4.18
Two-party-preferred result
	Social Democrats	Jack Lotus	70,582	56.53	+2.14
	Liberal	Andrew Sauvage	54,275	43.47	–2.14
	Social Democrats hold		Swing	+2.14