Electoral district of Sunbury

Sunbury Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of electoral district boundaries from the 2022 state election
State	Victoria
Created	2014
MP	Josh Bull
Party	Labor
Namesake	Sunbury
Electors	45,588 (2018)
Area	340 km2 (131.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer 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]

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

Member		Party	Term
	Josh Bull	Labor	2014–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Sunbury

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]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Josh Bull	16,253	43.1	−15.5
	Liberal	Simmone Cottom	11,895	31.6	−2.1
	Greens	Richard Burke	2,459	6.5	−1.2
	Animal Justice	Rohanna Mohr	1,537	4.1	+4.1
	Family First	Charles Pace	1,445	3.8	+3.8
	Independent	Laurence Pincini	1,432	3.8	+3.8
	Democratic Labour	Peter Bayliss	1,317	3.5	+3.5
	Victorian Socialists	James Gallagher	1,164	3.1	+3.1
	New Democrats	Rushi Vijaykumar Patel	204	0.5	+0.5
Total formal votes			37,706	93.5	–0.5
Informal votes			2,620	6.5	+0.5
Turnout			40,326	88.5	+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Josh Bull	21,271	56.4	−8.1
	Liberal	Simmone Cottom	16,435	43.6	+8.1
	Labor hold		Swing	−8.1

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.

External links

• District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission