Seats Changing Hands At The 2007 Federal Election

The table on this page shows the seats that changed hands at the 2007 House of Representatives election.

A total of 27 seats changed hands. This includes the new and notionally National seat of Flynn (Qld). It also includes the incumbent ALP member for Parramatta, Julie Owens, whose seat was made notionally Liberal in a redistribution.

The ALP won 25 seats and lost two (Cowan and Swan in WA). It finished with a net gain of 23 and a total of 83 seats in the House of Representatives, an overall majority of 16 seats.

The Coalition lost 25 seats and gained two. Its net total was 65.

With the retirement, and subsequent death, of the independent member for Calare, Peter Andren, only 2 independents were returned at the election. Bob Katter (Kennedy) and Tony Windsor (New England) were easily elected.

Summary of Seats Changing Hands – 2007 Federal Election
Party/Group	2004 Seats	Seats Won	Seats Lost	2007 Total
ALP	60	25	2	83
Coalition	87	2	24	65
Independent	3 (Calare, Kennedy, New England)	–	1	2 (Kennedy, New England)

In the following table, the names of retiring sitting members are shown in italics, followed by the name of the new candidate for that party.

The seats are grouped by State.

SEATS CHANGING HANDS AT THE 2007 FEDERAL ELECTION
No.	Seat	State/ Territory	Member/ Candidate	HELD BY	Member	WON BY
1.	Benneloong	NSW	John Howard	Liberal	Maxine McKew	ALP
2.	Eden-Monaro	NSW	Gary Nairn	Liberal	Mike Kelly	ALP
3.	Lindsay	NSW	Jackie Kelly Karen Chijoff	Liberal	David Bradbury	ALP
4.	Parramatta	NSW	Julie Owens	ALP (notionally Liberal)	Julie Owens	ALP
5.	Page	NSW	Ian Causley Chris Gulaptis	National	Janelle Saffin	ALP
6.	Robertson	NSW	Jim Lloyd	Liberal	Belinda Neal	ALP
7.	Corangamite	VIC	Stewart McArthur	Liberal	Darren Cheeseman	ALP
8.	Deakin	VIC	Phil Barresi	Liberal	Mike Symon	ALP
9.	Blair	QLD	Cameron Thompson	Liberal	Shayne Neumann	ALP
10.	Bonner	QLD	Ross Vasta	Liberal	Kerry Rea	ALP
11.	Dawson	QLD	De-Anne Kelly	National	James Bidgood	ALP
12.	Flynn	QLD	new seat	(notionally National)	Chris Trevor	ALP
13.	Forde	QLD	Kay Elson Wendy Creighton	Liberal	Brett Raguse	ALP
14.	Leichhardt	QLD	Warren Entsch Charlie McKillop	Liberal	Jim Turnour	ALP
15.	Longman	QLD	Mal Brough	Liberal	Jon Sullivan	ALP
16.	Moreton	QLD	Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	Graham Perrett	ALP
17.	Petrie	QLD	Teresa Gambaro	Liberal	Yvette D’Ath	ALP
18.	Cowan	WA	Graham Edwards Liz Prime	ALP	Luke Simpkins	Liberal
19.	Hasluck	WA	Stuart Henry	Liberal	Sharryn Jackson	ALP
20.	Swan	WA	Kim Wilkie	ALP	Steve Irons	Liberal
21.	Kingston	SA	Kym Richardson	Liberal	Amanda Rishworth	ALP
22.	Makin	SA	Trish Draper Bob Day	Liberal	Tony Zappia	ALP
23.	Wakefield	SA	David Fawcett	Liberal	Nick Champion	ALP
24.	Bass	TAS	Michael Ferguson	Liberal	Jodie Campbell	ALP
25.	Braddon	TAS	Mark Baker	Liberal	Sid Sidebottom	ALP
26.	Solomon	NT	David Tollner	Country Liberal	Damian Hale	ALP