Electoral district of Footscray
Footscray Labor Party | |
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Namesake | Footscray, Victoria |
Electors | 51,602 (2018) |
Area | 23 km2 (8.9 sq mi) |
Demographic | Inner metropolitan |
Coordinates | 37°48′S 144°52′E / 37.800°S 144.867°E |
The electoral district of Footscray is an electoral district of the
Melbourne, covering the suburbs of Footscray, Maidstone, Maribyrnong, Seddon, West Footscray, and parts of Yarraville
.
The seat was first created by The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876 taking effect at the 1877 elections.Labor Party for its entire existence. It has usually been a comfortably safe Labor seat, as it lies in Labor's traditional heartland of western and northern Melbourne.
Members for Footscray
First incarnation (1877–1904) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
Mark Last King | Unaligned | 1877–1879 | |
William Clark | Unaligned | 1879–1894 | |
John Hancock | Labor
|
1894–1899 | |
Samuel Mauger | Independent | 1900–1901 | |
Jacob Fotheringham | Liberal | 1901–1902 | |
Alexander McDonald | Liberal | 1902–1904 | |
Second incarnation (1927–present) | |||
Member | Party | Term | |
George Prendergast | Labor
|
1927–1937 | |
Jack Mullens | Labor
|
1937–1945 | |
Jack Holland | Labor
|
1945–1955 | |
Roy Schintler | Labor
|
1955–1958 | |
Ernie Shepherd | Labor
|
1958 | |
Bill Divers | Labor
|
1958–1970 | |
Robert Fordham | Labor
|
1970–1992 | |
Bruce Mildenhall | Labor
|
1992–2006 | |
Marsha Thomson | Labor
|
2006–2018 | |
Katie Hall | Labor
|
2018–present |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Katie Hall | 17,387 | 43.1 | −11.8 | |
Greens | Elena Pereyra | 9,045 | 22.4 | +2.2 | |
Liberal | Emete Joesika | 7,214 | 17.9 | +0.8 | |
Victorian Socialists | Jorge Jorquera | 3,769 | 9.3 | +9.3 | |
Democratic Labour | Alan Williams | 1,098 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
Animal Justice | Shohre Mansouri Jajaee | 989 | 2.5 | −3.5 | |
Family First | Russell Muir | 838 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Total formal votes | 40,340 | 96.1 | +1.5 | ||
Informal votes | 1,654 | 3.9 | −1.5 | ||
Turnout | 41,994 | 86.0 | +0.4 | ||
Notional two-party-preferred count | |||||
Labor | Katie Hall | 30,523 | 75.7 | −3.0 | |
Liberal | Emete Joesika | 9,817 | 24.3 | +3.0 | |
Two-candidate-preferred result
| |||||
Labor | Katie Hall | 21,880 | 54.2 | −13.9 | |
Greens | Elena Pereyra | 18,460 | 45.8 | +13.9 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −13.9 |
Graphical summary
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Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
External links
References
- ^ "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Footscray District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.