First contested at the 2016 election, Burt had a notional Liberal margin on creation, but was easily won by the Labor Party's Matt Keogh. He was easily re-elected in 2019 and 2022.

This explains the two points for the 1990 result, Labor's margin declining from 5.3% to a notional 1.0% on the new boundaries. Having won Hawker by 14 votes in 1990, Liberal Christine Gallus ...