Melton Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
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State | Victoria |
Created | 1992 |
MP | Steve McGhie |
Party | Labor |
Electors | 53,306 (2018) |
Area | 332 km2 (128.2 sq mi) |
Demographic | Outer metropolitan |
The electoral district of Melton is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. [1] It contains the towns of Aintree, Bacchus Marsh, Balliang, Balliang East, Blackwood, Brookfield, Greendale, Kurunjang, Melton, Melton South, Melton West, Mount Cottrell, Sydenham West, and Toolern Vale as well as parts of Diggers Rest, Plumpton, Rockbank and Truganina.
Member | Party | Term | |
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David Cunningham | Labor | 1992–1999 | |
Don Nardella | Labor | 1999–2017 | |
Independent | 2017–2018 | ||
Steve McGhie | Labor | 2018–present | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Steve McGhie | 12,626 | 38.1 | +3.7 | |
Liberal | Graham Watt | 8,137 | 24.6 | +8.2 | |
Independent | Ian Birchall | 3,258 | 9.8 | +9.8 | |
Independent | Jarrod James Bingham | 2,044 | 6.2 | +6.2 | |
Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Paul Blackborrow | 1,356 | 4.1 | +4.1 | |
Democratic Labour | Ashley Alp | 1,352 | 4.1 | +1.2 | |
Greens | Praise Morris | 1,339 | 4.0 | −0.5 | |
Family First | Richard Brunt | 780 | 2.4 | +2.4 | |
Freedom | Tony Dobran | 669 | 2.0 | +2.0 | |
Animal Justice | Fiona Adin-James | 583 | 1.8 | −1.0 | |
Justice | Samantha Jane Donald | 516 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
New Democrats | Jasleen Kaur | 197 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
Health Australia | Lucienne Ciappara | 155 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Independent | Jason Spencer Perera | 118 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Total formal votes | 33,130 | 90.6 | +0.5 | ||
Informal votes | 3,455 | 9.4 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 36,585 | 73.0 | −4.3 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Steve McGhie | 17,930 | 54.2 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Graham Watt | 15,164 | 45.8 | +1.6 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −1.6 |
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