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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Jagajaga, Victoria
North-eastern Melbourne: Eltham, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Montmorency
Sitting member: Hon Jenny Macklin (Labor), elected 1996
Enrolment at close of rolls: 103,112
2013 Labor majority over Liberal 3.1%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Hon Jenny Macklin
Australian Labor Party |
2. Jessica Ward
Family First |
3. David Mulholland
Liberal Party |
4. Hugh McKinnon
Australian Greens |
5. Nathan Schram
Animal Justice Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Jagajaga was created in 1984, as the western and more working-class half of the old seat of Diamond Valley, which was one of the most hotly-contested
marginal seats of the 1970s. Overall, Jagajaga has a relatively high level of median family income, but this conceals social disparities greater than
in most electorates. The seat contains both wealthy areas around Ivanhoe and Eaglemont, and some very low-income and deprived areas in Heidelberg. For
an urban Labor- held seat, it has a fairly low proportion of people in non English speaking countries and a high proportion of people in professional
occupations.
Jagajaga has always been a Labor seat, although the Liberals came close to winning it in 1990. Jagajaga has had only two members. Peter Staples, who
had previously been member for Diamond Valley, held it from 1984 to 1996, and was a minister in the Hawke-Keating Government. He retired in 1996.
Jenny Macklin, Labor MP for Jagajaga since 1996, is a leading figure in the Socialist Left faction, and was director of the Australian Urban and
Regional Development Review before her election. She has been continuously on the Labor front bench since her election, mostly in social policy areas.
After the 2001 election was elected Deputy Leader, a position she held until 2006. She was Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
throughout the Rudd-Gillard Government, and still holds that portfolio in opposition.
Although Macklin was re-elected in 2013 with a majority of only 3.1%, she is fairly secure in this seat. Her Liberal opponent in 2016 will be David
Mulholland.
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