Western Metropolitan Region Victoria—Legislative Council | |
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State | Victoria |
Created | 2006 |
MP | Lizzie Blandthorn (Labor) Moira Deeming (Independent Liberal) David Ettershank (Legalise Cannabis) Trung Luu (Liberal) Ingrid Stitt (Labor) |
Party | Labor (2) Legalise Cannabis (1) Liberal (1) Independent Liberal (1) |
Electors | 538,136 (2022) |
Area | 1,299 km2 (501.5 sq mi) |
Demographic | Metropolitan |
Coordinates | 37°45′S144°42′E / 37.750°S 144.700°E |
Western Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
The region comprises the Legislative Assembly districts of Footscray, Kororoit, Laverton, Niddrie, Point Cook, St Albans, Sunbury, Sydenham, Tarneit, Werribee and Williamstown.
Year | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | |||||
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2006 | Colleen Hartland | Greens | Khalil Eideh | Labor | Martin Pakula | Labor | Justin Madden | Labor | Bernie Finn | Liberal | |||||
2010 | Andrew Elsbury | Liberal | |||||||||||||
2013 | Cesar Melhem | Labor | |||||||||||||
2014 | Rachel Carling-Jenkins | Democratic Labour | |||||||||||||
2017 | Conservatives | ||||||||||||||
2018 | Huong Truong | Greens | Independent | ||||||||||||
2018 | Ingrid Stitt | Labor | Kaushaliya Vaghela | Labor | Catherine Cumming | Justice | |||||||||
2018 | Independent | ||||||||||||||
2022a | Independent | Independent | |||||||||||||
2022b | Independence | Democratic Labour | |||||||||||||
2022c | New Democrats | Angry Victorians | |||||||||||||
2022 | Lizzie Blandthorn | Labor | David Ettershank | Legalise Cannabis | Trung Luu | Liberal | Moira Deeming | Liberal | |||||||
2023 | Independent Liberal |
Seats are allocated by single transferable vote using group voting tickets. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity. [1] [2] [3]
Election | 1st MLC | 2nd MLC | 3rd MLC | 4th MLC | 5th MLC | |||||
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2006 | Labor (Justin Madden) | Liberal (Bernie Finn) | Labor (Khalil Eideh) | Labor (Martin Pakula) | Greens (Colleen Hartland) | |||||
2010 | Labor (Martin Pakula) | Liberal (Bernie Finn) | Labor (Khalil Eideh) | Liberal (Andrew Elsbury) | Greens (Colleen Hartland) | |||||
2014 | Labor (Cesar Melhem) | Liberal (Bernie Finn) | Labor (Khalil Eideh) | Greens (Colleen Hartland) | Democratic Labour (Rachel Carling-Jenkins) | |||||
2018 | Labor (Cesar Melhem) | Labor (Ingrid Stitt) | Liberal (Bernie Finn) | Labor (Kaushaliya Vaghela) | Justice (Catherine Cumming) | |||||
2022 | Labor (Lizzie Blandthorn) | Liberal (Moira Deeming) | Labor (Ingrid Stitt) | Legalise Cannabis (David Ettershank) | Liberal (Trung Luu) |
Labor were defending three seats. The Liberal Party and Derryn Hinch's Justice Party were defending one seat each. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Quota | 74,860 | ||||
Labor | 1. Lizzie Blandthorn (elected 1) 2. Ingrid Stitt (elected 3) 3. Cesar Melhem 4. Cuc Lum 5. Nurul Khan | 166,371 | 37.04 | -9.81 | |
Liberal | 1. Moira Deeming (elected 2) 2. Trung Luu (elected 5) 3. Golam Haque 4. Manish Patel 5. Luan Walker | 109,895 | 24.47 | +3.65 | |
Greens | 1. Bernadette Thomas 2. Sarah Bray 3. Isabelle McRae McLeod 4. Lloyd Davies 5. Pierre Vario | 36,239 | 8.07 | -0.04 | |
Democratic Labour | 1. Bernie Finn 2. Thi Kiem-Lien Lee | 23,422 | 5.21 | +1.54 | |
Legalise Cannabis | 1. David Ettershank (elected 4) 2. Raffaela Menta | 19,295 | 4.30 | +4.30 | |
Victorian Socialists | 1. Liz Walsh 2. Aran Mylvaganam | 16,095 | 3.58 | +3.02 | |
Family First | 1. Darren Buller 2. Mary Filmer | 14,261 | 3.18 | +3.18 | |
One Nation | 1. Ursula Van Bree 2. Frank Vrionis | 7,691 | 1.71 | +1.71 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1. Anthony Cursio 2. Liam Roche | 6,546 | 1.46 | −0.26 | |
Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Ken Vickers 2. Geoff Ashby | 6,401 | 1.43 | -0.59 | |
Animal Justice | 1. Meg Watkins 2. Nat Kopas | 6,209 | 1.38 | -1.26 | |
Justice | 1. Peter Sullivan 2. Jean-Marie D'Argent | 5,371 | 1.20 | -5.80 | |
United Australia | 1. Andrew Cuthbertson 2. Deepak Bansal | 4,737 | 1.06 | +1.06 | |
Sack Dan Andrews | 1. Samson Palkuri 2. Burkin Yalaz | 3,653 | 0.81 | +0.81 | |
Reason | 1. David Thirkettle-Watts 2. Harry Millward | 3,617 | 0.81 | -0.24 | |
Freedom | 1. John McBride 2. Dan McBride | 3,513 | 0.78 | +0.78 | |
Angry Victorians | 1. Catherine Cumming 2. Adam Robinson 3. Jennifer Zalme | 2,596 | 0.57 | +0.57 | |
New Democrats | 1. Kaushaliya Virjibhai Vaghela 2. Mohammed Qasim Shaik 3. Arix Maheshkumar Bishnoi 4. Anitha Jyothi Palkuri 5. Yogesh Kumar Malhotra | 2,470 | 0.55 | +0.55 | |
Health Australia | 1. Isaac Golden 2. Leah Golden | 2,122 | 0.47 | -0.49 | |
Sustainable Australia | 1. Bert Jessup 2. Dennis Bilic | 2,046 | 0.46 | -0.28 | |
Independent Liberal | 1. Fred Ackerman 2. Mark Barro | 1,623 | 0.36 | +0.36 | |
Companions and Pets | 1. Craig Treherne 2. Mary Britton | 1,806 | 0.40 | +0.40 | |
Independent | 1. Walter Villagonzalo 2. Sam Alcordo | 1,623 | 0.36 | +0.36 | |
Transport Matters | 1. Daniel Lowinger 2. Greg Collins | 1,204 | 0.27 | -0.41 | |
Independent | Esther Demian | 144 | 0.03 | +0.03 | |
Total formal votes | 449,155 | 95.94 | +0.79 | ||
Informal votes | 19,025 | 4.06 | −0.79 | ||
Turnout | 468,180 | 87.00 | −2.25 |
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