Electoral district of Geelong

Geelong Victoria—Legislative Assembly
State or territory:	Victoria
Created:	1856, 1889
Abolished:	1859
MP:	Ian Trezise
Party:	Labor
Electors:	40,062 (2010)
Area:	40 km² (15 sq mi)
Demographic:	Urban

The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong. Incomes vary strongly across the seat, and it is often aligned with the governing Party, due to similar demographics to the state at large.

It has been held since 1999 by Ian Trezise for the ALP, who won that election by 16 votes after recounts. The Victorian Parliament was hung at that election, and the results for the seat of Geelong, which took several days to arrive at, had a significant impact on the events which brought the Bracks government to power. At the 2002 election, the seat's margin grew to 8.1%. However, neither major party considers it safe, as it has been won by the governing party for every election between 1985 and 2006, but was narrowly held by Labor in the 2010 election.

Members for Geelong

First incarnation (1856–1859, 4 members)
Member	Term	Member	Term	Member	Term	Member	Term
Sir Charles Sladen	1856–1857	Alexander Fyfe	1856–1857	Charles Read	1856–1858	John Brooke	1856–1859
Alexander Thomson	1857–1859	George Board	1858–1859	James Harrison	1858–1859

Second incarnation (1877–1889, 3 members)
Member	Term	Member	Term	Member	Term
Charles Kernot	1877–1880	Robert de Bruce Johnstone	1877–1881	Sir Graham Berry	1877–1886
Charles Andrews Sr.	1880
Charles Kernot	1880–1882	George Cunningham	1881–1886
Joseph Connor	1882–1886
John Donaghy	1886–1889	James Munro	1886–1889	Charles Andrews Sr.	1886–1889

Third incarnation (1889–1904, 2 members)
Member		Party	Term
James Munro	1889–1892	Charles Andrews Sr.	1889–1894
John Rout Hopkins	1892–1894
H. B. Higgins	1894–1900	William Gurr	1894–1902
Charles Andrews Jr.	1900–1904	George Martin	1902–1904

Fourth incarnation (1904–1976, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	William Colechin	Labor	1904–1907
	William Gurr	Ministerialist	1907–1908
	William Plain	Labor	1908–1916
		Nationalist	1916–1917
	Robert Purnell	Nationalist	1917–1920
	William Brownbill	Labor	1920–1932
	Edward Austin	United Australia	1932–1935
	William Brownbill	Labor	1935–1938
	Fanny Brownbill	Labor	1938–1948
	Edward Montgomery	Liberal	1948–1950
	James Dunn	Labor	1950–1955
	Sir Thomas Maltby	Liberal	1955–1961
	Hayden Birrell	Liberal	1961–1976
Fifth incarnation (1985–present, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Hayden Shell	Labor	1985–1992
	Ann Henderson	Liberal	1992–1999
	Ian Trezise	Labor	1999–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Geelong

Victorian state election, 2010: Geelong
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alastair Thomson	15,472	43.01	+7.66
	Labor	Ian Trezise	14,809	41.17	-7.82
	Greens	Bruce Lindsay	4,131	11.48	+2.38
	Family First	Len Lengyel	688	1.91	-2.92
	Independent	Samantha Schultz	444	1.23	+1.23
	Country Alliance	Matthew Schmidt	430	1.20	+1.20
Total formal votes			35,974	95.93	-0.37
Informal votes			1,528	4.07	+0.37
Turnout			37,502	93.61	+1.56
Two-candidate preferred result
	Labor	Ian Trezise	18,702	51.98	-6.35
	Liberal	Alastair Thomson	17,275	48.02	+6.35
	Labor hold		Swing	-6.35

See also

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

External links

• Electorate profile: Geelong District, Victorian Electoral Commission