Electoral district of Bellarine
Bellarine Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Location of Bellarine (dark green) in Victoria | |||||||||||||||
State | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
Dates current | 1967–1976 1985–present | ||||||||||||||
MP | Alison Marchant | ||||||||||||||
Party | Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Bellarine Peninsula | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 55,022 (2022) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 356 km2 (137.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Urbanised Rural | ||||||||||||||
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The electoral district of Bellarine is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 367 square kilometres (142 sq mi) stretching from the Bellarine Peninsula to the outer eastern suburbs of Geelong. It includes the towns of Barwon Heads, Clifton Springs, Drysdale, Indented Head, Ocean Grove, Point Lonsdale, Portarlington and Queenscliff and the Geelong suburb of Leopold. It lies within the Western Victoria Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council.[1]
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, with Lisa Neville winning the seat on a swing of over nine percent.
Members for Bellarine
[edit]First incarnation (1967-1976) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Aurel Smith | Liberal | 1967–1976 |
Second incarnation (1985–present) | |||
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Graham Ernst | Labor | 1985–1992 | |
Garry Spry | Liberal | 1992–2002 | |
Lisa Neville | Labor | 2002–2022 | |
Alison Marchant | Labor | 2022–present |
Election results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Alison Marchant | 20,103 | 42.6 | −7.1 | |
Liberal | Donnie Grigau | 15,617 | 33.1 | −2.5 | |
Greens | Rachel Semmens | 5,537 | 11.7 | +2.6 | |
Independent | Sarah Fenton | 2,158 | 4.6 | +4.6 | |
Animal Justice | Adam Cardilini | 1,088 | 2.3 | −2.2 | |
Family First | Guy Manuell | 1,033 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
Justice | Brett Anthony Ritchie | 770 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
Freedom | Kylee Muse | 458 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
Angry Victorians | Brendan Taylor | 389 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
Total formal votes | 47,153 | 95.6 | –0.4 | ||
Informal votes | 2,156 | 4.4 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,309 | 89.6 | +3.3 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Alison Marchant | 27,567 | 58.5 | −3.0 | |
Liberal | Donnie Grigau | 19,586 | 41.5 | +3.0 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −3.0 |
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References
[edit]- ^ "Bellarine District profile". Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Bellarine District resultswebsite=Victorian Electoral Commission". Retrieved 1 December 2022.
External links
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