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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Gellibrand, Victoria

Named for: Cape Gellibrand (after Joseph Gellibrand (1792-1837), pioneer and explorer)

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Western Melbourne: Altona, Laverton, Newport, Point Cook, Williamstown

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Enrolment at 2019 election: 111,217
Enrolment at 2022 election: 108,096 (-02.7)

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1999 republic referendum: Yes 56.9
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 68.1
2023 Voice referendum: No 52.5

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Sitting member: Hon Tim Watts (Labor): Elected 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022 Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs

2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 21.5%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 23.9%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 16.5%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 18.3%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.8%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.5%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 11.2%

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Status 2022: Safe Labor

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Labor two-party vote 1983-2022

2022 results

Statistics and history

Announced candidates:

Tim Watts Australian Labor Party

Division of Gellibrand

Gellibrand was created in 1949, occupying a block of Melbourne's working-class western suburbs, based on Footscray and Williamstown. Successive redistributions extended it westwards into newer suburban areas, without much changing its political character. The seat has a relatively high income level, a high proportion of non English speaking households and a fairly high proportion in professional and managerial occupations, although all these are likely to be reduced on the new boundaries following the 2021 redistribution, which has removed the more "inner-city" part of the seat.

The 2021 redistribution changed the seat substantially, removing Footscray for the first time, and extending it as far west as Point Cook and Truganina. These changes reduced the Labor majority, and also disadvantaged the Greens by removing the more inner-city parts of the seat, making it more clearly working-class. The 2024 redistribution had made only minor changes.

Members for Gellibrand have included Ralph Willis, Treasurer in the Keating government, and Nicola Roxon, a senior minister in the Rudd-Gillard Government. Roxon retired in 2013.

Tim Watts, Labor member for Gellibrand since 2013, was a solicitor, a ministerial adviser and a manager at Telstra before his election. Since 2022 he has been Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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