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title: "Bean: members and political ads | Politics Computer"
description: "Bean: who holds the seat and what they're spending on Facebook and Instagram ads."
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Federal division, inner-metropolitan

# Bean

In Australian Capital Territory.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Senator_David_Smith.jpg?width=96)**David Smith** Labor, Bean ](https://politics.computer/mp/david-smith)

About

## About Bean

Bean is an inner-metropolitan Australian House of Representatives division in the Australian Capital Territory, which also includes Norfolk Island. It is currently held by David Smith of the Australian Labor Party.

Created

2018, first contested at the 2019 federal election

Named after

Charles Bean, Australian war correspondent and official historian

Area

Southern districts of the ACT and Norfolk Island

Previous members

Division of Canberra districts were transferred to Bean at creation

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FBean), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Bean whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Bean yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Bean are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

## Other divisions in Australian Capital Territory

- [Canberra](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/canberra)
- [Fenner](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/fenner)

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