Wannon

Wannon Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Wannon in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	Dan Tehan
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Wannon River
Electors	99,213 (2016)
Area	33,854 km2 (13,071.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

The Division of Wannon is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the south-west of the state, and encompasses most of the Western District of the state. It adjoins the South Australian border in the west, and the Bass Strait coast in the south. The division encompasses the towns of Warrnambool, Portland, Ararat, Hamilton and Halls Gap. The Grampians and the Port Campbell National Parks are in the division. Maryborough and Avoca became part of Wannon at the 2013 federal election due to a redistribution that took place on 24 December 2010.

The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. The division was named after the Wannon River. For the first half-century after Federation, it regularly traded hands between the Australian Labor Party and the conservative parties. However, a 1955 redistribution removed most of the seat's Labor-friendly territory, and it has been a safe Liberal seat since then.