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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Jagajaga, Victoria
Named for: Three supposed Indigenous elders whose names appear on John Batman's 1835 "treaty" purporting to purchase the site of Melbourne
North-eastern Melbourne: Eltham, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Montmorency, Research
Enrolment at 2019 election: 107,575
Enrolment at 2022 election: 113,162 (+05.3)
1999 republic referendum: Yes 56.8
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 73.5
2023 Voice referendum: Yes 54.6
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Sitting member:
Hon Kate Thwaites (Labor): Elected 2019, 2022
Assistant Minister for Social Security
Assistant Minister for Ageing
Assistant Minister for Women |
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 9.0%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.5%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 3.1%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.7%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 6.6%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.4%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 12.4%
Status: Safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1984-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Chris Parr
Liberal Party |
Hon Kate Thwaites
Australian Labor Party |
Division of Jagajaga
Jagajaga was created in 1984, as the western and more working-class half of the old seat of
Diamond Valley,
which was one of the most hotly-contested marginal seats of the 1970s. Overall, Jagajaga has a relatively
high level of median family income, but this conceals social disparities greater than in most electorates. The
seat contains both wealthy areas around Ivanhoe and Eaglemont, and some very low-income and deprived areas in
Heidelberg. For an urban Labor-held seat, it has a fairly low proportion of non English speaking households
and a high proportion of people in professional and managerial occupations.
Jagajaga has always been a Labor seat, although the Liberals came close to winning it in 1990.
Peter Staples,
who had previously been member for Diamond Valley, held it from 1984 to 1996, and was a minister in the Hawke-Keating
Government. He retired in 1996.
Jenny Macklin, who won the seat in 1996, was continuously on the Labor
front bench from her election, mostly in social policy areas. She was Deputy Labor Leader from 2001 to 2006 and was a senior
minister throughout the Rudd-Gillard Government. She retired at the 2019 election.
Kate Thwaites, Labor MP for Jagajaga since 2019, was a senior staffer to
Macklin, and more recently Director of Strategic Communications, Media and Public Policy at the Victorian Department of Health and
Human Services. Since July 2024 she has been Assistant Minister for Social Security, for Ageing and for Women. The Liberal candidate in
2025 will be Chris Parr, whose occupation is not stated.
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