Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Menzies, Victoria
Eastern Melbourne: Bulleen, Doncaster, Templestowe, Warrandyte
Sitting member: Hon Kevin Andrews (Liberal), elected 1991
Enrolment at close of rolls: 99,170
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 14.5%

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Candidates in ballot-paper order:

1. Antony Hulbert Animal Justice Party	2. Ramon Robinson Independent	3. David Clark Family First	4. Hon Kevin Andrews Liberal Party

5. Richard Cranston Australian Greens	6. Adam Rundell Australian Labor Party	7. Jay Franklin Voluntary Euthanasia Party	8. Stephen Mayne Independent

2013 results

Statistics and history

Menzies was created in 1984, when the old seat of Diamond Valley, a key marginal in the 1970s, was abolished. It took in the more middle-class
and more Liberal-voting parts of the seat, based on Doncaster and Templestowe, and subsequent redistributions have expanded it further to the
east into new upper-income suburbia such as Warrandyte. It has the high level of median family income and the high proportion of people in
professional occupations typical of such seats, while also having a higher level of families with dependent children and of dwellings being
purchased than inner-city upper- income seats like Kooyong. It also has quite a high proportion of people born in non English speaking countries
for a Liberal-held seat.

Although Menzies was seriously contested in the 1980s, it has grown stronger for the Liberals as the area has grown wealthier. Members for Menzies
have been Neil Brown (previously member for Diamond Valley and a minister in the Fraser Government) and Kevin Andrews, who won the 1991
by-election which followed Brown's resignation.

Kevin Andrews, Liberal MP for Menzies since 1991, was a barrister and legal academic before entering politics. He was on the opposition front
bench from 1992 and was a minister in the Howard Government, ending as Minister for Immigration. He was an opposition frontbencher from 2009 to
2013, and successively Minister for Social Services and Minister for Defence in the Abbott Government. He was dropped by Malcolm Turnbull in
September 2015 and is now a backbench dissident. The Labor candidate in 2016 is Adam Rundell, an IT technician.

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