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Adam Carr's Election Archive

Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Melbourne, Victoria

Named for: City of Melbourne (after Rt Hon William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), British Prime Minister 1834, 1835-41). The title derives from the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire.


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Central Melbourne: Carlton, Collingwood, Docklands, Richmond, South Yarra

Enrolment at 2019 election: 107,552
Enrolment at 2022 election: 114,388 (+06.4)

1999 republic referendum: Yes 70.9
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 83.7
2023 Voice referendum: Yes 77.2


Sitting member: Dr Adam Bandt (Green): Elected 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022

Leader of the Australian Greens


2007 Labor majority over Greens: 4.7%
2010 Greens majority over Labor: 6.0%
2013 Greens majority over Labor: 5.3%
2016 Greens majority over Liberal: 6.9%
2019 Greens majority over Liberal: 21.8%
2022 Greens majority over Labor 10.1%
2025 notional Greens majority over Labor 6.6%

Status: Fairly safe Greens
Labor/Greens two-party vote 1983-2022


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  • Statistics and history

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