Electoral district of Ballarat East
Appearance
Ballarat East Victoria | |
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Dates current | 1859–1927, 1992–2014 |
Electors | 40,578 (2010) |
Area | 3,323 km2 (1,283.0 sq mi) |
Demographic | Urbanised rural |
Ballarat East (initially spelt Ballaarat East. The electorate had a population of 54,127 as of the 2006 census, with 40,578 enrolled electors at the 2010 state election.
Ballarat East was one of the earliest districts of the Legislative Assembly, having been created for the second Assembly election in 1859. It was initially a two-member seat, and as with the rest of the Assembly, was largely non-partisan until 1889, when it became a one-member electorate and began to be held by more partisan figures. It was held by successive early liberal parties until they merged into the
Labor Party in 1924, one term before being abolished in 1927. It was recreated as a marginal seat in 1992, when it was won by Liberal Barry Traynor, but was regained for Labor by Geoff Howard when the party won office at the 1999 election. Howard was re-elected at the 2002 election, 2006 election and 2010 election
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Ballarat East was abolished in 2014 after a redistribution of Victoria's electoral boundaries, with much of its territory going to the new district of Buninyong.
Members for Ballarat East
First incarnation (1859–1927) | |||||||
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Member 1 | Party | Term | Member 2 | Party | Term | ||
John Humffray
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Unaligned | 1859–1864 | John Cathie | Unaligned | 1859–1864 | ||
Charles Jones | Unaligned | 1864–1867 | Charles Dyte | Unaligned | 1864–1871 | ||
John Humffray
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Unaligned | 1868–1871 | |||||
John James | Unaligned | 1871–1886 | Robert Walsh | Unaligned | 1871–1874 | ||
Townsend McDermott | Unaligned | 1874–1877 | |||||
Daniel Brophy | Unaligned | 1877–1880 | |||||
James Russell | Unaligned | 1880 | |||||
Daniel Brophy | Unaligned | 1880–1883 | |||||
Edward Murphy | Unaligned | 1886–1889 | James Russell | Unaligned | 1883–1889 | ||
John Dunn | Comm Liberal
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1889–1894 | One Member (1889–1927)
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Robert McGregor | Comm Liberal
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1894–1924 | |||||
Nationalist
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William McAdam | Labor
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1924–1927 |
- McAdam went on to represent the new Electoral district of Ballarat from 1927.
Second incarnation (1992–2014) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Barry Traynor | Liberal
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1992–1999 | |
Geoff Howard | Labor
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1999–2014 |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Ben Taylor | 15,758 | 43.40 | +9.80 | |
Labor | Geoff Howard | 14,076 | 38.77 | -4.18 | |
Greens | Linda Zibell | 5,363 | 14.77 | +3.01 | |
Family First | Gary Greville | 1,109 | 3.05 | -2.03 | |
Total formal votes | 36,306 | 95.69 | -0.47 | ||
Informal votes | 1,636 | 4.31 | +0.47 | ||
Turnout | 37,942 | 93.50 | +1.58 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Geoff Howard | 18,702 | 51.51 | -5.13 | |
Liberal | Ben Taylor | 17,604 | 48.49 | +5.13 | |
Labor hold | Swing | -5.13 |
References
- ^ "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 1858. Retrieved 4 February 2014.