Electoral district of Forest Hill
Forest Hill Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
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![]() Location of Forest Hill (dark green) in Greater Melbourne | |
State | Victoria |
Created | 1976 |
MP | Neil Angus |
Party | Liberal Party of Australia |
Electors | 40,991 (2014) |
Area | 25 km2 (9.7 sq mi) |
Demographic | Outer Metropolitan |
Forest Hill is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.[1] It is a 25 km² electorate located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Blackburn South, Burwood East and Vermont South and parts of Forest Hill and Vermont. The electorate had a population of 50,163 as of the 2006 census.
Forest Hill was created as a relatively safe Liberal seat in 1976, and was won by Liberal candidate John Richardson at the election that year. Richardson was re-elected at six consecutive elections, surviving some close races against Labor candidates at the height of the Cain government in the 1980s, and held the seat with a comfortable margin of over 7% when he retired at the 2002 election. However, Labor nominated high-profile skier and Winter Olympics medallist Kirstie Marshall as their candidate at that election, which combined with a statewide Labor landslide and the loss of Richardson's personal vote saw Labor easily win the seat for the first time. Marshall suffered a sharp swing back to the Liberal Party at the 2006 election, and held the seat by a margin of only 0.78%. At the 2010 election, Marshall was defeated by Liberal candidate Neil Angus.
Members for Forest Hill
Member | Party | Term | |
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Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal| | John Richardson | Liberal | 1976–2002 |
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Labor| | Kirstie Marshall | Labor | 2002–2010 |
Template:Australian politics/party colours/Liberal| | Neil Angus | Liberal | 2010–present |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Neil Angus | 18,340 | 49.7 | +0.9 | |
Labor | Pauline Richards | 12,984 | 35.2 | −3.0 | |
Greens | Brewis Atkinson | 3,289 | 8.9 | +1.1 | |
Animal Justice | Kane Rogers | 999 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
Christians | Lynne Maddison | 561 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
Family First | Wendy Ross | 508 | 1.4 | −0.6 | |
Country Alliance | Melissa Trotter | 211 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
Total formal votes | 36,892 | 95.7 | −0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 1,646 | 4.3 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 38,538 | 94.0 | −1.1 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Neil Angus | 20,286 | 54.8 | +1.3 | |
Labor | Pauline Richards | 16,717 | 45.2 | −1.3 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | +1.3 |
External links
References
- ^ "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 29 May 2014.