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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Holt, Victoria
South-eastern Melbourne: Cranbourne, Doveton, Endeavour Hills, Hampton Park
Sitting member: Hon Anthony Byrne (Labor), elected 1999
Enrolment at close of rolls: 116,262
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 9.1%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Colin Robertson
Rise Up Australia |
2. Hon Anthony Byrne
Australian Labor Party |
3. Neil Bull
Family First |
4. Jake Tilton
Australian Greens |
5. James Mathias
Liberal Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Holt was created in 1969, based on the manufacturing centre of Dandenong in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. Subsequent redistributions, however, have moved the seat further out, removing Dandenong and adding the commuter suburb of Cranbourne. Holt is now the country's foremost mortgage belt seat - it has the highest proportion of families with dependent children and the highest proportion of dwellings being purchased of any electorate. It is thus acutely sensitive to interest rates, which nearly cost Labor the seat at the 2004 election.
Gareth Evans, Foreign Minister in the Hawke-Keating Government, won Holt in 1996 after a long career in the Senate. He departed after Labor's defeat in 1998.
Anthony Byrne, Labor MP since the 1999 by-election which followed Evas's resignation, was chief executive officer of the Anxiety Disorders Foundation of Australia before his election. He was a parliamentary secretary in the first Rudd Government but was dropped after the 2010 election. He was chair of the Joint Statutory Committee on Intelligence and Security from 2010 to 2013 and is now deputy chair. His Liberal opponent in 2016 is James Mathias, who works for Senator Mitch Fifield.
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