Eltham Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
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State | Victoria |
Created | 1992 |
MP | Vicki Ward |
Party | Labor Party |
Electors | 44,820 (2018) |
Area | 73 km2 (28.2 sq mi) |
Demographic | Outer metropolitan/semi-rural |
The electoral district of Eltham is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. [1] It is an outer metropolitan electorate and contains Eltham, Lower Plenty as well as parts of Greensborough and Kangaroo Ground.
Eltham was created prior to the 1992 election and although it had a notional Labor margin of 4.3%, it was easily won by Wayne Phillips for the Liberal Party with a swing of over 14%. Phillips held the seat before being defeated in the 'Brackslide' of 2002.
The current member is Labor MP Vicki Ward.
Member | Party | Term | |
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Wayne Phillips | Liberal | 1992–2002 | |
Steve Herbert | Labor | 2002–2014 | |
Vicki Ward | Labor | 2014–present |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Vicki Ward | 15,219 | 45.0 | −4.8 | |
Liberal | Jason McClintock | 11,965 | 35.4 | −1.4 | |
Greens | Alex Grimes | 4,591 | 13.6 | +3.1 | |
Family First | Hugh Stubley | 799 | 2.4 | +2.4 | |
Animal Justice | Catriona Marshall | 695 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Democratic Labour | Leila Karimi | 533 | 1.6 | −0.2 | |
Total formal votes | 33,802 | 96.8 | +1.3 | ||
Informal votes | 1,106 | 3.2 | −1.3 | ||
Turnout | 34,908 | 71.3 | −22.8 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Vicki Ward | 20,121 | 59.6 | −1.0 | |
Liberal | Jason McClintock | 13,661 | 40.4 | +1.0 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −1.0 |
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