Electoral district of Bellarine

Bellarine Victoria—Legislative Assembly
State or territory:	Victoria
Created:	1967, 1985
Abolished:	1976
MP:	Lisa Neville
Party:	Australian Labor Party
Electors:	44,369 (2010)
Area:	337 km² (130 sq mi)
Demographic:	Urbanised Rural

The Electoral district of Bellarine is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The electorate contains some of the eastern suburbs of Geelong and much of the Bellarine Peninsula after which the electorate is named.

The seat was first created in a redistribution prior to the 1967 election but was abolished and replaced by Geelong East and South Barwon in 1976. It was revived prior to the 1985 election after Geelong East was itself abolished and population increases in South Barwon moved that electorate westwards.

It has traditionally been a marginal seat. Graham Ernst of the Labor Party won the seat in the 1985 and 1988 elections but was defeated at the 1992 election by the Liberal Party's Garry Spry who held the seat until his retirement in 2002. At the election in November of that year it was one of many seats to fall to the Labor Party.

Lisa Neville is the current member. She holds the seat with a margin of 1.37%.

Members for Bellarine

Member		Party	Term
	Aurel Smith	Liberal	1967–1976
	Graham Ernst	Labor	1985–1992
	Garry Spry	Liberal	1992–2002
	Lisa Neville	Labor	2002–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Bellarine

Victorian state election, 2010: Bellarine
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Kurt Reiter	17,140	43.05	+5.85
	Labor	Lisa Neville	16,324	41.00	−7.49
	Greens	Judy Baldacchino	3,123	7.84	−1.75
	Family First	Lara Duff	944	2.37	−2.34
	Democratic Labor	Klaus Clapinski	831	2.09	+2.09
	Country Alliance	Nick McCallum	665	1.67	+1.67
	Independent	Stephen Juhasz	510	1.28	+1.28
	Socialist Alliance	Mitch Cherry	274	0.69	+0.69
Total formal votes			39,811	94.69	−1.79
Informal votes			2,231	5.31	+1.79
Turnout			42,042	94.76	+0.59
Two-candidate preferred result
	Labor	Lisa Neville	20,449	51.37	−6.59
	Liberal	Kurt Reiter	19,362	48.63	+6.59
	Labor hold		Swing	−6.59

See also

• Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
• List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

External links

• Electorate profile: Bellarine District, Victorian Electoral Commission