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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Ballarat, Victoria
Central Victoria: Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Ballarat, Daylesford
Sitting member: Hon Catherine King (Labor), elected 2001
Enrolment at close of rolls: 110,793
2013 Labor majority over Liberal 4.9%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Dianne Colbert
Australian Christians |
2. Paul Tatchell
The Nationals |
3. Hon Catherine King
Australian Labor Party |
4. Bren Eckel
Independent |
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5. Alice Barnes
Australian Greens |
6. Graham Howard
Family First |
7. Tran Tran
Rise Up Australia |
8. Sarah Wade
Liberal Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Ballarat (which was spelled Ballaarat until 1977) has existed since Federation, and has always taken in a block of territory
centering on the regional city of Ballarat. Like most regional seats, it has a fairly low relative income level, and a low
proportion of people born in non English speaking countries. Being close to Melbourne and subject to suburbanisation, it also has
a high proportion of families with dependent children and dwellings being purchased. Labor's strength lies the eastern and southern
parts of the city of Ballarat, plus smaller centres such as Daylesford and Creswick which have been heavily colonised by exurbanites
and pursuers of alternative lifetsyles.
Ballarat's most distinguished member has been Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, who held it from Federation until 1913. After
being a marginal seat in the 1940s and early 50s, it became a stronghold of the DLP and was safe for the Liberals for 25 years after
the 1955 Labor Split. Labor finally regained the seat in 1980. Since then it has grown steadily better for Labor, and has not elected
a Liberal since 1998.
Catherine King, Labor MP for Ballarat since 2001, won the seat against the trend of the 2001 election: Ballarat was the only seat
captured by Labor from the Howard Government at that election. She survived a sharp swing to the Liberals at the 2013 election and
now seems secure in the seat. She was a social worker and public servant before entering politics. She was a shadow parliamentary
secretary from 2004 and a minister through the Rudd-Gillard Government, ending as Regional Services, Local Communities and
Territories. She is now shadow minister for health. The Liberal candidate in 2016 will be Sarah Wade, a Ballarat lawyer.
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