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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Fraser, Victoria
Named for: Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser (1930-2015), federal MP 1955-83, Opposition Leader 1975, Prime Minister 1975-83
Western Melbourne: Braybrook, Footscray, St Albans, Sunshine, Yarraville
Enrolment at 2019 election: 109,430
Enrolment at 2022 election: 110,961 (+01.5)
2023 Voice referendum: Yes 57.0
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.2%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 16.5%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 16.6%
Status 2022: Very safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 2019-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Daniel Mulino
Australian Labor Party |
Division of Fraser
Fraser was created in 2018, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, as a result of Victoria's rapid growth in recent years.
It covered the heartland of Melbourne's working-class and multi-cultural west, based on St Albans and Sunshine. As a result
it was one of the safest Labor seats in Australia. It is a heavily working-class, Catholic and ethnic seat, with a very high
proportion of voters from non English speaking backgrounds, mainly Vietnamese and Chinese.
(This Fraser should not be confused with the earlier seat of
Fraser, which existed in the
ACT from 1974 to 2016. That seat was named for
Jim Fraser MP. It was renamed
Fenner in 2016 so that a
Victorian seat of Fraser could be created following
Malcolm Fraser's death in 2015.)
Fraser was formed from parts of the old seats of
Calwell,
Gellibrand,
Gorton and
Maribyrnong:
the latter held by then Opposition Leader
Bill Shorten. Shorten could have moved to Fraser had he chosen, but
opted to stay in Maribyrnong. After no more than the usual amount of factional bickering, the Labor nomination (which is
tantamount to election) went to Dr Daniel Mulino, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Dr Daniel Mulino, Labor MP for Fraser since 2019, was born in
Italy and has a PhD in economics from Yale. He has worked as a senior state public servant and as an advisor to Premier
Steve Bracks and Treasurer
John Lenders. He later worked for Shorten when he was Minister for
Employment and Workplace Relations.
The 2021 redistribution changed Fraser fairly radically, removing the northern half of the seat around Keilor and
extending it eastwards to take in Footscray, Maidstone and Yarraville, formerly in Gellibrand and Maribyrnong. This increased
the already large Labor majority, but also added more territory favourable to the Greens. The seat has been altered only slightly
by the 2024 redistribution.
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