Electoral district of Wendouree
| Wendouree Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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_2022.svg) Location of Wendouree (dark green) in Victoria | |||||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 2014 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Juliana Addison | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Wendouree | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 43,575 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 64 km2 (24.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Regional city | ||||||||||||||
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The electoral district of Wendouree 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 largely covers the area of the abolished district of Ballarat West, covering north, southwest and west suburbs of Ballarat, including Wendouree, Alfredton, Delacombe, Redan, Ballarat North, Invermay, Black Hill and Brown Hill, as well as much of the CBD. The south suburb of Sebastopol was moved to the adjoining district of Buninyong.[2]
The abolished seat of Ballarat West was held by Labor MP Sharon Knight. While the redistribution made Wendouree notionally Liberal-held, Knight won the new seat with a swing to Labor.
In the 2021 boundary redistribution, Wendouree gained the suburb of Sebastopol while losing the suburbs of Brown Hill and Ballarat East, with the new boundaries being based on the Western Freeway with the district of Ripon and the Yarrowee River with the district of Eureka.
Members
[edit]| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharon Knight | Labor | 2014–2018 | |
| Juliana Addison | Labor | 2018–present | |
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Juliana Addison | 20,059 | 47.6 | −3.1 | |
| Liberal | Samantha McIntosh | 12,548 | 29.7 | −4.1 | |
| Greens | Ellen Burns | 4,386 | 10.4 | +1.4 | |
| Family First | Ian Harkness | 1,616 | 3.8 | +3.8 | |
| Animal Justice | Bryn Hills | 1,602 | 3.8 | +0.2 | |
| Democratic Labour | Dianne Colbert | 1,509 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
| Independent | Bren Eckel | 455 | 1.1 | +0.9 | |
| Total formal votes | 42,172 | 95.2 | +0.5 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,399 | 5.4 | −0.5 | ||
| Turnout | 44,571 | 88.3 | +1.8 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Juliana Addison | 26,109 | 61.9 | +0.9 | |
| Liberal | Samantha McIntosh | 16,063 | 38.1 | −0.9 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Summary of Changes". Victorian Electoral Boundary Commission. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
- ^ "Map of Wendouree District" (PDF). Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission.
- ^ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ Wendouree District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ Full preference distributions – 2022 State election, Victorian Electoral Commission. [Retrieved 17 June 2023.