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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Aston, Victoria
Eastern Melbourne: Boronia, Knox, Scoresby, Wantirna
Sitting member: Hon Alan Tudge (Liberal), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 96,010
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 8.2%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Steve Raymond
Australian Greens |
2. Daniel Martin
Family First |
3. Daniel Huppert
Independent |
4. Joel Moore
Liberal Democratic Party |
5. Rosemary Lavin
Animal Justice Party |
6. Hon Alan Tudge
Liberal Party |
7. Paul Klisaris
Australian Labor Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Aston was created in 1984, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, centred on the fast-growing City of Knox and new wealthy areas such as Wantirna and Lysterfield. It has a very high proportion of families with dependent children and dwellings being purchased, indications of traditional families paying high mortgages. This is a high-income mortgage belt seat, without the high concentration of people in professional occupations that marks wealthy seats closer to the city centre. These factors explain why Aston changed from a marginal seat in the 1980s to the safest Liberal seat in metropolitan Melbourne in 2004. There are still a few Labor-voting areas around Boronia on the north-eastern edge of the seat.
Aston's first member, John Saunderson (Labor - he had previously been member for Deakin from 1983 to 1984) was defeated in 1990 by Peter Nugent (Liberal), and the seat has got steadily better for the Liberals since. Nugent died in 2001 and was succeeded by Chris Pearce, who easily held the seat until he retired in 2010.
Alan Tudge, Liberal MP for Aston since 2010, has an MBA from Harvard and was a lawyer, consultant and ministerial adviser (to Alexander Downer) before his election. He became a parliamentary secretary in 2013 and is now Minister for Human Services. The Labor candidate is Monash City Councillor Paul Klisaris.
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