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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Gorton, Victoria

Named for: Rt Hon John Gorton (1911-2002), Senator 1949-68, federal MP 1968-75, Prime Minister 1968-71

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Western Melbourne: Caroline Springs, Deer Park, Rockbank, Sydenham, Taylors Lakes

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Enrolment at 2019 election: 110,424
Enrolment at 2022 election: 110,860 (+00.5)

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2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 53.3
2023 Voice referendum: No 60.9

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Sitting member: Hon Brendan O'Connor (Labor): Elected (for Burke) 2001, (for Gorton) 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022. Retiring 2025

2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 21.2%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 22.2%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 16.1%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 19.5%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 15.4%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 10.0%
2022 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 10.0%

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Status 2022: Fairly safe Labor

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Labor two-party vote 2004-22

2022 results

Statistics and history

Announced candidates:

Alice Jordan-Baird Australian Labor Party

Division of Gorton

Gorton was created in 2004, in the heart of Melbourne's heavily working-class and multi-cultural western suburbs. It replaced the old seat of Burke, but cannot be regarded as the same seat renamed, since it inherited only 54% of Burke's voters (the rest came from Calwell and Gellibrand).

Gorton has one of the highest proportions of people employed in manufacturing, and one of the lowest of people in professional occupations, of any seat in Australia. Gorton also has one of the highest proportions of people born in non English speaking countries of any electorate, and the fifth highest level of families with dependent children. It is thus an electorate of young working-class families, and a low-income mortgage-belt seat. Many of these families are recent immigrants from India and other Asian countries.

Brendan O'Connor, Labor MP for Burke from 2001 to 2004 and for Gorton since 2004, was assistant national secretary of the Australian Services Union before his election. He was on the opposition front bench from 2006, and was a minister throughout the Rudd-Gillard Government. He was Minister for Skills and Training in the Albanese Government until his resignation in July 2024. He will retire at the 2025 election. The new Labor candidate is Alice Jordan-Baird, a climate crisis and water policy expert. The seat has not been significantly changed by the 2024 redistribution.

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