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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of McEwen, Victoria
North of Melbourne: Craigieburn, Mernda, Seymour, Sunbury
Sitting member: Rob Mitchell (Labor), elected 2010
Enrolment at close of rolls: 130,591
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 0.2%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Rob Mitchell
Australian Labor Party |
2. James Anderson
The Nationals |
3. Neil Barker
Australian Greens |
4. Chris Jermyn
Liberal Party |
5. Ross Lee
Independent |
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6. Tracey Andrew
Country Party |
7. Jeff Truscott
Rise Up Australia |
8. Cathy Vaina
Animal Justice Party |
9. Dorothy Long
Family First |
2013 results
Statistics and history
McEwen was created in 1984, covering an expanse of rural Victoria north and north-east of Melbourne, as well as some fast-growing outer suburbs.
Although most of its area is rural, it has the social characteristsics of an outer-suburban mortgage belt seat - very high proportions of families
with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased, and a low level of people born in non English speaking countries. The seat has always been
politically marginal, with its orientation usually being determined by which suburbs are included at each successive redistribution. The 2010
redistribution, by adding the strongly Labor-voting suburb of Craigieburn, tipped the seat towards Labor.
Fran Bailey, who held McEwen for the Liberals for most of the 1990s, was a junior minister in the Howard Government and well-regarded locally. As a
result she was able, by the narrowest of margins, to retain the seat in 2007. When she retired in 2010, the seat was won by Labor. There was a swing
back to the Liberals in 2013, and McEwen is now Labor's most marginal seat.*
Rob Mitchell, Labor MP for McEwen since 2010, was variously a boot-maker, tow-truck operator and sales manager before entering politics. In 2002 he
unexpectedly won the Victorian Legislative Council seat of Central Highlands, which he held until 2006. He narrowly failed to win McEwen in 2007,
won it in 2010, and narrowly retained it in 2013. He was elected Second Deputy Speaker in 2013, and will probably become Speaker if Labor wins the
2016 election. His Liberal opponent is Chris Jermyn, is a staffer for Liberal state MP Craig Ondarchie.
* Not counting Dobell and Paterson, which have notional Labor majorities following the 2016 redistribution.
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