Electoral district of Mildura
Mildura Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
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State | Victoria |
Created | 1927 |
MP | Ali Cupper |
Party | Independent |
Namesake | Town of Mildura |
Electors | 44,401 (2018) |
Area | 35,702 km2 (13,784.6 sq mi) |
Demographic | Rural |
Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria and sits within the Northern Victoria electorate.[1] It is a 35,702 km² rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale. It is currently represented by independent Ali Cupper.
Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of Labor control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the Liberal Party, with journalist Craig Bildstien winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent Russell Savage. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide.
Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party.
Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.
Members for Mildura
Member | Party | Term | |
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Albert Allnutt | Country Progressive | 1927–1930 | |
Country | 1930–1945 | ||
Independent | 1945 | ||
Louis Garlick | Labor | 1945–1947 | |
Nathaniel Barclay | Country | 1947–1952 | |
Alan Lind | Labor | 1952–1955 | |
Nathaniel Barclay | Country | 1955–1962 | |
Milton Whiting | Country | 1962–1975 | |
National Country | 1975–1982 | ||
National | 1982–1988 | ||
Craig Bildstien | Liberal | 1988–1996 | |
Russell Savage | Independent | 1996–2006 | |
Peter Crisp | National | 2006–2018 | |
Ali Cupper | Independent | 2018–present |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Peter Crisp | 14,654 | 39.39 | −6.71 | |
Independent | Ali Cupper | 12,180 | 32.74 | +11.45 | |
Labor | Tony Alessi | 6,404 | 17.21 | +5.56 | |
Independent | Steven Timmis | 2,555 | 6.87 | +6.87 | |
Greens | Cathryn Milne | 1,414 | 3.80 | +1.96 | |
Total formal votes | 37,207 | 94.91 | +1.96 | ||
Informal votes | 1,996 | 5.09 | −1.96 | ||
Turnout | 39,203 | 88.29 | −4.04 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
National | Peter Crisp | 20,692 | 55.61 | −14.61 | |
Labor | Tony Alessi | 16,515 | 44.39 | +14.61 | |
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Ali Cupper | 18,730 | 50.34 | +8.38 | |
National | Peter Crisp | 18,477 | 49.66 | −8.38 | |
Independent gain from National | Swing | +8.38 |
References
- ^ "Parliament of Victoria". Parliament of Victoria – electorates. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ State Election 2018: Mildura District, VEC.