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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Goldstein, Victoria
Named for: Vida Goldstein (1869-1949), feminist and anti-war activist and parliamentary candidate
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Inner Melbourne: Beaumaris, Bentleigh, Brighton, Gardenvale, Sandringham
Enrolment at 2019 election: 108,555
Enrolment at 2022 election: 109,633 (+01.1)
1999 republic referendum: Yes 58.0
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 76.3
2023 Voice referendum: Yes 56.2
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Sitting member: Zoe Daniel (Independent): Elected 2022
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2007 Liberal majority over Labor: 6.0%
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 6.5%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.0%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 12.7%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 7.8%
2022 Independent majority over Liberal 2.9%
2025 notional Independent majority over Liberal 2.9%
Status 2022: Very marginal independent
Liberal two-party vote 1984-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Zoe Daniel
Independent |
Nildhara Gadani
Aust Labor Party |
Alana Galli-McRostie
Aust Greens |
Hon Tim Wilson
Liberal Party |
Leon Gardiner (One Nation)
Andrew Montgomery (Family First)
David Segal (Libertarian)
Division of Goldstein
Goldstein* was created in 1984, but is in fact the old federation seat of
Balaclava renamed (because it no longer contains the suburb of Balaclava). It has always been located in the affluent bayside suburbs of Melbourne, based on the Liberal strongholds of Brighton
and Sandringham. Successive redistributions have extended it into somewhat more marginal territory to the
east of the Nepean Highway, but it remains one of most affluent seats in Australia, with a high level of
median family income and a high proportion of people in professional and managerial occupations.
Until 2022, Balaclava/Goldstein was the only seat in Australia which had been won by the major non-Labor party of the day
(Protectionist, Liberal, Nationalist, United Australia, Liberal) at every election since Federation. Seven of its ten
members have been ministers, from the first federal Treasurer,
Sir George Turner, to Liberal Cabinet
ministers
Ian Macphee,
Dr David Kemp and
Andrew Robb - the last a minister in the Howard Government and a member of
the Abbott and Turnbull cabinets. Robb retired in 2016.
Tim Wilson, who won Goldstein in 2016, was policy director of the Liberal think-tank the Institute of Public Affairs and later Australian Human Rights Commissioner. In 2021 he became Assistant Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. In 2022 he became the first member for Balaclava/Goldstein to be defeated.
Zoe Daniel, independent MP for Goldstein since 2022, had a long career as an ABC journalist,
mainly as a foreign correspondent. Wilson will again be her opponent in 2025. The Labor candidate (who will come a distant third) is Nildhara Gadani, a teacher.
* Which is pronounced Goldstine, not Goldsteen.
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