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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Hotham, Victoria
Named for: Sir Charles Hotham (1806-55), Governor of Victoria 1854-55 (Sir Charles pronounced his name Hutham, but the seat has always been pronounced Hotham.)
South-eastern Melbourne: Carnegie, Clayton, Notting Hill, Oakleigh, Springvale
Enrolment at 2019 election: 107,859
Enrolment at 2022 election: 116,974 (+07.6)
1999 republic referendum: Yes 54.2
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 59.6
2023 Voice referendum: No 50.2
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Sitting member: Hon Clare O'Neil (Labor): Elected 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
Minister for Housing
Minister for Homelessness
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 13.0%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 13.5%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.3%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.5%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.9%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.3%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 11.6%
Status: Safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Hon Clare O'Neil
Australian Labor Party |
Division of Hotham
Hotham was created in 1969, when the old seat of
, which had existed since 1949,
was renamed (to avoid confusion with a state seat of the same name). Over successive redistributions it has been shifted around the
south-eastern suburbs, moving from the Moorabbin-Sandringham area towards Clayton and Springvale. In the process
it took in some of Melbourne's most heavily working-class and multicultural newer suburbs, while shedding older
middle-class areas, and moved from fairly safe Liberal to safe Labor.
The 2021 redistribution has extended Hotham further east,
taking in Labor-voting Keysborough, Noble Park and Springvale from Bruce. At the same time Hotham has lost Liberal-inclined
Mount Waverley and Wheelers Hill to Chisholm. These changes substantially increased the Labor majority. The 2024 redistribution
has moved the seat northwards, gaining Carnegie and Notting Hill while losing Keysborough. This change reduced the Labor majority.
In the 1960s Hotham was held by
Don Chipp, a minister in Liberal governments and later founder and
leader of the Australian Democrats.
Simon Crean won Hotham for Labor in 1990. He was President of the
ACTU from 1985 to 1990, and was put into the Hawke ministry as soon as he was elected in 1990, then promoted to Cabinet in 1991.
He was an unsuccessful Opposition Leader in 2001-03, but his career revived as a senior minister in the Rudd-Gillard Government. In 2013 he
resigned after his involvement in the botched first coup attempt against
Julia Gillard, and retired in 2013.
Clare O'Neil, Labor MP for Hotham since 2013, has a master's degree from
Harvard and was a manager with McKinsey, and mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong, before her election. She joined the Labor
front bench in 2016. She wwas Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security from 2022 to 2024 and is now Minister for Housing and Homelessness.
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