Electoral district of Williamstown

Williamstown Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Williamstown (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1856
MP	Melissa Horne
Party	Labor Party
Electors	50,919 (2018)
Area	34 km2 (13.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

Williamstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 33 km² urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown and Yarraville. The electorate had a population of 54,426 as of the 2006 census.

Williamstown is one of only three electorates (along with Brighton and Richmond) to have been contested at every election since 1856. It is a very safe seat for the Labor Party, which has held it for all but two terms since 1889 and without interruption since 1904. Notable former members include John Lemmon, who held the seat for a Victorian record 51 years until his retirement in 1955, and former Premiers Joan Kirner and Steve Bracks. [1]

Steve Bracks held the seat from a by-election in 1994 until his surprise resignation on 30 July 2007. A by-election was held on 15 September 2007, resulting in the election of Labor's Wade Noonan.

The seat is almost entirely within the equally safe federal seat of Gellibrand.

Members for Williamstown

Member		Party	Term
	John Foster	Unaffiliated	1856–1857
	George Perry	Unaffiliated	1857–1859
	George Verdon	Liberal	1859–1868
	Thomas Mason	Unaffiliated	1868–1871
	Alfred Clark	Liberal	1871–1887
	James Mirams	Liberal	1887–1889
	William Carter	Labour	1889–1894
	James Styles	Labour	1894–1900
	Alexander Ramsay	Commonwealth Liberal	1900–1904
	John Lemmon	Labor	1904–1955
	Larry Floyd	Labor	1955–1973
	Gordon Stirling	Labor	1973–1988
	Joan Kirner	Labor	1988–1994
	Steve Bracks	Labor	1994–2007
	Wade Noonan	Labor	2007–2018
	Melissa Horne	Labor	2018–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Williamstown

2018 Victorian state election: Williamstown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Melissa Horne	21,839	50.36	+5.72
	Liberal	Pallavee Joshi	7,832	18.06	−9.98
	Greens	Sam Long	6,960	16.05	−4.67
	Independent	Peter Hemphill	4,407	10.16	+10.16
	Animal Justice	Virginia Saint-James	1,251	2.88	+2.88
	Independent	Lisa Bentley	1,081	2.49	+2.49
Total formal votes			43,370	95.23	+0.24
Informal votes			2,173	4.77	−0.24
Turnout			45,543	89.44	−2.65
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Melissa Horne	31,273	72.07	+5.53
	Liberal	Pallavee Joshi	12,118	27.93	−5.53
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.53

Historical maps

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  Location within Greater Melbourne area, 1859

External links

• District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission
• Map of the Electoral District of Williamstown, 1855