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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Lalor, Victoria
Western Melbourne: Hoppers Crossing, Point Cook, Werribee, Wyndham Vale
Sitting member: Joanne Ryan (Labor), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 123,571
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.2%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Marion Vale
Rise Up Australia |
2. Joanne Ryan
Australian Labor Party |
3. Gayle Murphy
Liberal Party |
4. Susan Jakobi
Australia First |
5. Daniel Sova
Australian Greens |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Lalor was created in 1949, originally as a semi-rural seat extending as far north as Seymour. Later redistributions cut it back to Melbourne's fast-growing outer western suburbs, based on the satellite town of Werribee. Lalor is one of the country's leading lower-income mortgage belt seats, with very high levels of families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased. Its very low levels of people in professional occupations and of people aged over 65 show that it is overwhelmingly a seat of young families buying their first homes.
Lalor has nearly always been a Labor seat, although it was lost in 1966, when it still had substantial rural areas in it. Members for Lalor, a Labor "leadership seat," have included Labor ministers Reg Pollard (Chifley Government), Dr Jim Cairns (Whitlam Government), Barry Jones (Hawke Government) and Julia Gillard, who won the seat in 1998.
Gillard was on the Opposition front bench from 2001 and made her reputation as shadow minister for health. In 2006 she formed a leadership ticket Kevin Rudd and was elected Deputy Labor Leader, in succession to Jenny Macklin. She was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations in the Rudd Government. In June 2010, after initial reluctance, she agreed to challenge Rudd, and became Australia's first female PM when Rudd agreed not to contest the ballot. She lost Labor's majority at the 2010 election and formed a minority government. In June 2013 she was defeated in Rudd's second attempt at a counter-coup, and retired at the 2013 election.
Joan Ryan, Labor MP for Lalor since 2013, was a teacher and school principal before her election. She has been an Opposition Whip since 2013. Her Liberal opponent in 2016 will be Gayle Murphy, a small business owner and client engagement consultant.
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