| Geelong Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1856–1859 1877–1976 1985–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Christine Couzens | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Geelong | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 47,575 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 328 km2 (126.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Urban | ||||||||||||||
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38°09′S144°21′E / 38.150°S 144.350°E /-38.150; 144.350
Theelectoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of theVictorian Legislative Assembly. It centres on inner metropolitanGeelong and following the June 2013 redistribution of electoral boundaries includes the suburbs ofBelmont,Breakwater,East Geelong,Geelong,Geelong West,Newtown andSouth Geelong,Herne Hill,Manifold Heights,Newcomb,Newtown, St Albans Park,Thomson,Whittington and part ofFyansford.[1]
The seat first existed from 1856 to 1859 as a four-member seat. It was split intoGeelong East andGeelong West in 1859, but re-created in 1876 as a three-member seat. It was cut back to a two-member seat in 1889 and became a single-member seat in 1904. It was abolished in 1976 but re-created in 1985.
In its current incarnation, it has historically been a marginal seat with demographics similar to the state at large. As such, it was held by the governing party of the day from 1985 to 2010. Incomes vary strongly across the seat.
It was won in 1999 byIan Trezise for theALP by 16 votes after recounts. TheVictorian Parliament was hung at that election, and the results for the seat of Geelong, which took several days to arrive at, had a significant impact on the events that brought the Bracks government to power. At the 2002 election, the seat's margin grew to 8.1%, however, neither major party considered it safe due to its history as a marginal seat. Trezise narrowly held it for Labor in the2010 election, becoming the first opposition member for this seat in its current incarnation.
The2014 Victorian state election saw boundary changes andChristine Couzens retained the seat for the ALP following the retirement of Trezise.[2] In 2018, she fended off a strong challenge from an independent candidate,Darren Lyons, a former mayor of Geelong. At the next election, she managed a swing to her on the 2PP and secured the best margin for Labor in this seat in 70 years.
| First incarnation (1856–1859, 4 members) | |||||||
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| Member 1 | Term | Member 2 | Term | Member 3 | Term | Member 4 | Term |
| SirCharles Sladen | 1856–1857 | Alexander Fyfe | 1856–1857 | Charles Read | 1856–1858 | John Brooke | 1856–1859 |
| Alexander Thomson | 1857–1859 | George Board | 1858–1859 | James Harrison | 1858–1859 | ||
Split intoGeelong East andGeelong West in 1859
| Second incarnation (1877–1976), 3 members initially, two from 1889, 1 from 1904 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member 1 | Term | Member 2 | Term | Member 3 | Term |
| Charles Kernot | 1877–1880 | Robert de Bruce Johnstone | 1877–1881 | SirGraham Berry | 1877–1886 |
| Charles Andrews Sr. | 1880 | ||||
| Charles Kernot | 1880–1882 | George Cunningham | 1881–1886 | ||
| Joseph Connor | 1882–1886 | ||||
| Charles Andrews Sr. | 1886–1894 | James Munro | 1886–1892 | John Donaghy | 1886–1889 |
| John Rout Hopkins | 1892–1894 | ||||
| H. B. Higgins | 1894–1900 | William Gurr | 1894–1902 | ||
| Charles Andrews Jr. | 1900–1904 | George Martin | 1902–1904 | ||
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Colechin | Labor | 1904–1907 | |
| William Gurr | Ministerialist | 1907–1908 | |
| William Plain | Labor | 1908–1916 | |
| Nationalist | 1916–1917 | ||
| Robert Purnell | Nationalist | 1917–1920 | |
| William Brownbill | Labor | 1920–1932 | |
| Edward Austin | United Australia | 1932–1935 | |
| William Brownbill | Labor | 1935–1938 | |
| Fanny Brownbill | Labor | 1938–1948 | |
| Edward Montgomery | Liberal/Liberal and Country | 1948–1950 | |
| James Dunn | Labor | 1950–1955 | |
| SirThomas Maltby | Liberal and Country | 1955–1961 | |
| Hayden Birrell | Liberal and Country/Liberal | 1961–1976 | |
| Third incarnation (1985–present, 1 member) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Hayden Shell | Labor | 1985–1992 | |
| Ann Henderson | Liberal | 1992–1999 | |
| Ian Trezise | Labor | 1999–2014 | |
| Christine Couzens | Labor | 2014–present | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Christine Couzens | 20,754 | 46.4 | +4.5 | |
| Liberal | James Bennett-Hullin | 12,194 | 27.2 | +5.3 | |
| Greens | Aleisha Smith | 6,849 | 15.3 | +6.3 | |
| Family First | Madeleine Parker-Hill | 2,051 | 4.6 | +4.6 | |
| Animal Justice | Bob Motta | 1,465 | 3.3 | +0.2 | |
| Ind. (Socialist Alliance) | Angela Carr | 994 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
| Independent | Stephen Juhasz | 455 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
| Total formal votes | 44,762 | 95.9 | +0.4 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,918 | 4.1 | −0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 46,680 | 89.1 | −1.1 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Christine Couzens | 28,965 | 64.7 | +4.4 | |
| Liberal | James Bennett-Hullin | 15,797 | 35.3 | −4.4 | |
| Laborhold | Swing | +4.4 | |||
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