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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Scullin, Victoria
Named for: Rt Hon James Scullin (1876-1953), federal MP 1910-13, 1922-49, Prime Minister 1929-32
Northern Melbourne: Epping, Lalor, Mill Park, South Morang, Thomastown
Enrolment at 2019 election: 105,180
Enrolment at 2022 election: 108,583 (+03.3)
1999 republic referendum: Yes 56.3
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 53.4
2023 Voice referendum: No 61.9
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Sitting member: Hon Andrew Giles (Labor): Elected 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
Minister for Skills and Training
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 20.8%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 22.3%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.3%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 17.3%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 21.7%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 15.6%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 15.6%
Status: Safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Hon Andrew Giles
Australian Labor Party |
Division of Scullin
Scullin was created in 1969, when the old seat of
Darebin in the northern suburbs of
Melbourne was renamed (there was an
earlier seat of
Scullin in a different part of
Melbourne). The seat was originally based on Preston and Reservoir, but successive redistribution have pushed it northwards so
that now it contains none of its 1969 territory. It is a largely working-class seat, with an above-average proportion of its
workforce engaged in manufacturing, and also a high proportion in non English speaking households. It is thus a multicultural,
low-income mortgage-belt seat, with a high level of young families with dependent children and dwellings being purchased in
new suburbs such as Epping, Lalor and Mill Park. This is a very safe Labor seat, and was made safer by the 2018 redistribution.
It has been only slightly changed by the 2024 redistribution.
Scullin was represented by the Jenkins family for 44 years.
Dr Harry Jenkins was Speaker of the House during the first Hawke
government. His son
Harry Jenkins was Speaker in the Rudd-Gillard Government.
These are the only father-and-son Speakers in the Parliament's history. In 2012 Jenkins was told to resign as Speaker
so the government could instal the renegade Liberal
Peter Slipper. He retired in understandable disgust in 2013.
Andrew Giles, Labor MP for Scullin since 2013, was a lawyer with Slater and
Gordon before his election, and has also worked as an adviser to state ministers. Like Jenkins, he is a member of the Left faction of the
Victorian ALP. He was Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs from 2022 to 2024, and is now Minister for Skills and Training.
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