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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Lalor, Victoria
Named for: Hon Peter Lalor (1827-89), leader of Eureka miners, Vic MP 1855-71, 1874-89. (Lalor pronounced his surname LAW-luh, and the name of the Division of Lalor is always pronounced that way. The Melbourne suburb of Lalor (which is in
Scullin) is generally pronouned LAY-law.)
Western Melbourne: Hoppers Crossing, Manor Lakes, Tarneit, Werribee, Wyndham Vale
Enrolment at 2019 election: 106,795
Enrolment at 2022 election: 106,949 (+00.2)
1999 republic referendum: No 51.3
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 56.8
2023 Voice referendum: No 53.1
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Sitting member: Joanne Ryan (Labor): Elected 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 15.5%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 22.2%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.2%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 13.4%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.4%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.8%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 12.8%
Status: Safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Joanne Ryan
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Division of Lalor
Lalor was created in 1949, originally as a semi-rural seat extending as far north as Seymour. Later
redistributions cut it back to Melbourne's fast-growing outer western suburbs, based on the satellite town of
Werribee, now a major urban growth centre. Lalor is one of the country's leading lower-income mortgage belt seats, with very high levels of
families with dependent children and of dwellings being purchased. It also has very low levels of people in
professional occupations and of people aged over 65, which shows that it is overwhelmingly a seat of young families, many
of them recent immigrants, buying their first homes. It is also a very multicultural seat, with an
increasing population of immigrants from India.
Lalor has nearly always been a Labor seat, although it was lost in 1966, when it still had substantial
rural areas in it. Members for Lalor, a Labor "leadership seat," have included Labor ministers
Reg Pollard (Chifley Government),
Dr Jim Cairns (Whitlam Government),
Barry Jones (Hawke Government) and
Julia Gillard, who won the seat in 1998.
Gillard was on the Opposition front bench from 2001 and made her reputation as shadow minister for
health. In 2006 she formed a leadership ticket with
Kevin Rudd and was elected Deputy Labor Leader, in
succession to
Jenny Macklin. She was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and Workplace
Relations in the Rudd Government. In June 2010, after initial reluctance, she agreed to challenge Rudd,
and became Australia's first female PM when Rudd agreed not to contest the ballot. She lost Labor's majority
at the 2010 election and formed a minority government. In June 2013 she was defeated in Rudd's second
attempt at a counter-coup, and retired at the 2013 election.
Joanne Ryan, Labor MP for Lalor since 2013, was a teacher and school
principal before her election. She has been an Opposition Whip since 2013. The 2024 redistribution has removed territory on both the eastern
and western sides of the seat, without changing the Labor majority.
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