Electoral district of Sunbury

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Sunbury
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Electoral district of Sunbury (Victoria) 2022.svg
Location of Sunbury (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State Victoria
Created2014
MP Josh Bull
Party Labor
Namesake Sunbury
Electors 45,588 (2018)
Area340 km2 (131.3 sq mi)
DemographicOuter metropolitan

The electoral district of Sunbury is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election. [1]

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It is a new district that was created in the fast-growing outer northwestern fringe of Melbourne from areas in the district of Macedon. It is centred on the city of Sunbury, and includes the towns of Diggers Rest, Bulla, Westmeadows and Gladstone Park. [2]

Sunbury was estimated to be a fairly safe Labor seat with a margin of 6.5% at the time of its creation. [3] Labor member Josh Bull became the first member for Sunbury at the 2014 election. [4]

Members

MemberPartyTerm
  Josh Bull Labor 2014–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Sunbury.[ edit ]
2022 Victorian state election: Sunbury [5] [6] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Josh Bull 16,25343.1−15.5
Liberal Simmone Cottom11,89531.6−2.1
Greens Richard Burke2,4596.5−1.2
Animal Justice Rohanna Mohr1,5374.1+4.1
Family First Charles Pace1,4453.8+3.8
Independent Laurence Pincini1,4323.8+3.8
Democratic Labour Peter Bayliss1,3173.5+3.5
Victorian Socialists James Gallagher1,1643.1+3.1
New Democrats Rushi Vijaykumar Patel2040.5+0.5
Total formal votes37,70693.5–0.5
Informal votes2,6206.5+0.5
Turnout 40,32688.5+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Josh Bull 21,27156.4−8.1
Liberal Simmone Cottom16,43543.6+8.1
Labor hold Swing −8.1

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References

  1. ↑ "Summary of Changes". Victorian Electoral Boundary Commission. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Map of Sunbury District". Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission.
  3. ↑ Green, Antony (23 January 2024). "2013 Victorian Redistribution Analysis of Electoral Boundaries". ABC.
  4. ↑ "Victorian state election: Huge numbers of rookie MPs take their seats". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  5. ↑ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  6. ↑ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  7. ↑ Sunbury District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.


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