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Victorian state election, 2018
Bendigo West District
Northern Victoria: Castlemaine, Golden Square, Harcourt, Kangaroo Flat, Long Gully
Federal seats: Part of Bendigo
Legislative Council: Northern Victoria Region
Local government areas: Parts of Greater Bendigo, Loddon, Mount Alexander
Enrolment 2014 election: 42,505
Enrolment 2018 election: 45,325 (up 6.6%)
Sitting member:
Maree Edwards (Labor): Elected 2010, 2014
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.9
2014 Labor majority over Liberal: 12.2
Status: Safe Labor
2014 results
Candidates
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Maree Edwards
Australian Labor Party |
Kevin Finn
Liberal Party |
Laurie Whelan
Australian Greens |
Marilyn Nuske (Animal Justice Party)
Kevin Finn (Liberal Party)
Maree Edwards (Australian Labor Party)
Laurie Whelan (Australian Greens)
Bendigo West District
Bendigo West was created in 1985, when the old seats of Bendigo and Midlands were abolished snd new seats of Bendigo East and
West were created. Bendigo West takes in the central and western parts of the city of Bendigo, plus the regional towns of Castlemaine and
Harcourt. Bendigo is a regional administrative and economic hub and a major tourism centre, increasingly colonised by
exurbanites from Melbourne. These trends have made the area increasingly solid for Labor. The Liberals have not won a Bendigo seat,
state or federal, since 1996.
Bendigo West has generlly been the safer for Labor of the two Bendigo seats. It was won by the Liberals only in the Kennett
landslide year of 1992. Labor's Bob Cameron won it back in 1999 and was a minister in the Bracks government. He retired in 2010, and Maree
Edwards has held the seat fairly easily since, gaining a large swing in 2014.
Maree Edwards, Labor MLA for Bendigo West since 2010, was a staffer for Bob Cameron for eleven years before succeeding him as the
Labor candidate. She has been Deputy Speaker since March 2017.
The Liberal candidate in 2018 will be Kevin Finn, a lawyer. The Green candidate will be Laurie Whelan, a former Mayor of Greater
Bendigo.
Boundaries following 2014 redistricting:
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