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Electoral results for the Division of Bennelong

Australian division election results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ5356455 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Bennelong in Australian federal elections from the electorate's creation in 1949 until the present.

Members

Election results

Elections in the 2020s

2025

2022

Elections in the 2010s

2019

2017

2016

2013

2010

Elections in the 2000s

2007

2004

2001

Elections in the 1990s

1998

1996

1993

1990

Elections in the 1980s

1987

1984

1983

1980

Elections in the 1970s

1977

1975

1974

1972

Elections in the 1960s

1969

1966

1963

1961

Elections in the 1950s

1958

1955

1954

1951

Elections in the 1940s

1949

References

Australian Electoral Commission.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Electoral results for the Division of Bennelong” as australian division election results. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Electoral, results and Division.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2025, 2022, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Electoral, results and Division providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Electoral results for the Division of Bennelong”, the useful work is to connect “australian division election results” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5356455. The first chronological checks are 1949, 2025, 2022 and 2019.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Electoral results for the Division of Bennelong”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Electoral results for the Division of Bennelong primary sources, Electoral results for the Division of Bennelong archive and Electoral research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Electoral results for the Division of Bennelong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.