Electoral district of Bellarine

Bellarine
Labor Party
Bellarine; Labor Party
Namesake	Bellarine Peninsula
Electors	55,022 (2022)
Area	356 km2 (137.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Urbanised Rural
	Electorates around Bellarine:

The electoral district of Bellarine is one of the

Point Lonsdale, Portarlington and Queenscliff and the Geelong suburb of Leopold. It lies within the Western Victoria Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council.^[1]

The seat was first created in a redistribution prior to the 1967 election but was abolished and replaced by Geelong East and South Barwon in 1976. It was revived prior to the 1985 election after Geelong East was itself abolished and population increases in South Barwon moved that electorate westwards.

It has traditionally been a marginal seat.

Liberal Party's Garry Spry who held the seat until his retirement in 2002. At the election in November of that year it was one of many seats to fall to the Labor Party, with Lisa Neville

Members for Bellarine

First incarnation (1967-1976)
Member		Party	Term
	Aurel Smith	Liberal	1967–1976

2022 Victorian state election: Bellarine^[2]^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Alison Marchant	20,103	42.6	−7.1
	Liberal	Donnie Grigau	15,617	33.1	−2.5
	Greens	Rachel Semmens	5,537	11.7	+2.6
	Independent	Sarah Fenton	2,158	4.6	+4.6
	Animal Justice	Adam Cardilini	1,088	2.3	−2.2
	Family First	Guy Manuell	1,033	2.2	+2.2
	Justice	Brett Anthony Ritchie	770	1.6	+1.6
	Freedom	Kylee Muse	458	1.0	+1.0
	Angry Victorians	Brendan Taylor	389	0.8	+0.8
Total formal votes			47,153	95.6	–0.4
Informal votes			2,156	4.4	+0.4
Turnout			49,309	89.6	+3.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Alison Marchant	27,567	58.5	−3.0
	Liberal	Donnie Grigau	19,586	41.5	+3.0
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.0