Peter Ronald Hall is an Australian retired politician. He was a National member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1988 to 2014,representing Gippsland Province (1988–2006) and the Eastern Victoria Region (2006–2014).
Allan McLean was an Australian politician who served as the 19th Premier of Victoria,in office from 1899 to 1900. He was later elected to federal parliament,where he served as a government minister under George Reid.
Peter Julian Ryan is a former Australian politician who was leader of The Nationals in Victoria from 1999 to 2014. He represented the electoral district of Gippsland South from 1992 to 2015,and from 2010 to 2014 was the Deputy Premier of Victoria as well as the Minister for Rural and Regional Development. In addition,Ryan was the Minister for Police from 2010 to 2013.
The 2006 Victorian state election,held on Saturday,25 November 2006,was for the 56th Parliament of Victoria. Just over 3 million Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly and,for the first time,40 members to the Legislative Council under a proportional representation system. The election was conducted by the independent Victorian Electoral Commission.
Michael Anthony O'Brien is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2006,representing the electorate of Malvern and served as the leader of the party and opposition leader from December 2018 to September 2021.
Russell John Northe is an Australian former politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 until his retirement in 2022. Prior to winning preselection by The Nationals for the seat of Morwell,he was a local Australian rules footballer. He resigned from The Nationals in August 2017,and served the rest of his time in office as an independent member of parliament. Following Northe's retirement at the 2022 state election,National member Martin Cameron won Northe's previous seat of Morwell.
Matthew Jason Guy is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Parliament of Victoria since 2006,representing the Northern Metropolitan Region in the Legislative Council (2006–2014) and Bulleen in the Legislative Assembly (2014–present). He was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and state leader of the Liberal Party from 2014 to 2018,when he resigned the leadership after the Liberal Party's landslide defeat in the 2018 Victorian election. From 7 September 2021,Guy again served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria,but he again resigned after another heavy defeat in the 2022 state election.
Peter Lindsay Walsh is an Australian politician. He has been a National Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2002,representing the electorate of Swan Hill until 2014 and Murray Plains thereafter. He was state leader of the Nationals from 2014 to 2024 and served as Minister for Agriculture and Food Security and Minister for Water in the Baillieu and Napthine Coalition governments.
The electoral district of Gippsland South is a Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Eastern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council.
Darren Jeffrey Chester is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the House of Representatives for Gippsland in Victoria,representing the Nationals since 2008. Chester had served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Defence Personnel between March 2018 and July 2021 in the Turnbull and Morrison governments. He was also Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC until May 2019.
David Roland Joseph O'Brien is an Australian politician who represented the National Party in the Victorian Legislative Council.
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2018.
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council,as elected at the 2014 state election.
Stephanie Maureen Ryan is a former Australian politician. She was a National Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2014 to 2022,representing the Legislative Assembly seat of Euroa. Ryan retired from politics at the 2022 Victorian state election,citing family reasons. Making the announcement while pregnant with her second child,Ryan expressed a desire to seek more flexible employment.
The 2018 Victorian state election was held on Saturday,24 November 2018 to elect the 59th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The first-term incumbent Labor government,led by Premier Daniel Andrews,won a second four-year term,defeating the Liberal/National Coalition opposition,led by Opposition Leader Matthew Guy in a landslide victory. Minor party the Greens led by Samantha Ratnam also contested the election.
A by-election for the seat of Gippsland South in the Victorian Legislative Assembly was held on 14 March 2015. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of former state National Party leader and Deputy Premier,Peter Ryan. Ryan had been a member of the Victorian parliament for over 22 years,and last retained the seat at the 2014 election on a 65.7 percent two-party vote,with a negative 6.9 percentage point swing. The election was contested on the same boundaries used at the previous state election.
Melina Gaye Bath is an Australian politician and former schoolteacher,who is a Nationals member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Eastern Victoria Region.
The Victorian Liberal Party,officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) and branded as Liberal Victoria,is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria. It was formed in 1944. It became the Liberal and Country Party (LCP) in 1949,and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. The party sits on the centre-right to right-wing of the Australian political spectrum.
The 2022 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election was an election to appoint the leader of the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition after the 2022 Victorian state election. Matthew Guy,who had held these roles since September 2021 and previously in 2018 resigned after the Coalition's defeat to the Australian Labor Party at the November election.
The Victorian National Party,the state branch of the National Party of Australia in Victoria,has held a number of leadership elections and deputy leadership elections.
