| Higgins Australian House of Representatives Division | |
|---|---|
 Division of Higgins in Victoria, as of the 2022 federal election | |
| Created | 1949 |
| MP | Michelle Ananda-Rajah |
| Party | Labor |
| Namesake | H. B. Higgins |
| Electors | 107,782 (2022) |
| Area | 39 km2 (15.1 sq mi) |
| Demographic | Inner metropolitan |
The Division of Higgins is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria for the Australian House of Representatives. The division covers 41 km2 (16 sq mi) in Melbourne's inner south-eastern suburbs. The main suburbs include Armadale, Ashburton, Carnegie, Glen Iris, Kooyong, Malvern, Malvern East, Murrumbeena, Prahran and Toorak; along with parts of Camberwell, Ormond and South Yarra. Though historically a safe conservative seat, Higgins was won by the Liberal Party by a margin of just 3.9 percent over the Labor Party at the 2019 election, the closest result in the seat’s history.[1] It then flipped to Labor in the 2022 election.[2]
Higgins is a largely white-collar electorate. According to the 2021 census, 52.4% of electors hold a Bachelor's Degree, slightly more than twice the national average.[3]
The current member for Higgins, since the 2022 federal election, is Michelle Ananda-Rajah, a member of the Australian Labor Party, and the first Labor member in the seat's history.
In 2024, the Australian Electoral Commission announced that the seat would be abolished in the Victorian federal electorate redistribution, effective from the next Australian federal election, with its electors distributed across the divisions of Melbourne, Kooyong, Hotham, Macnamara and Chisholm.[4]
- ^ "Higgins (Key Seat) - Federal Electorate, Candidates, Results - ABC News". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ "Higgins (Key Seat) - Federal Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Higgins". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "7. Announcement of names and boundaries of federal electoral divisions in Victoria". Victorian federal redistribution. Australian Electoral Commission. 5 September 2024. The abolition of the Division of Higgins. Archived from the original on 8 October 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
