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Victorian state election, 2018
Bentleigh District
Eastern Melbourne: Bentleigh, Bentleigh East, Hampton East, McKinnon, Moorabbin
Federal seats: Parts of Goldstein,
Hotham and
Isaacs
Legislative Council: Southern Metropolitan Region
Local government areas: Parts of Bayside, Glen Eira, Kingston
Enrolment 2014 election: 40,981
Enrolment 2018 election: 42,772 (up 4.4%)
Sitting member:
Nick Staikos (Labor): Elected 2014
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 0.9
2014 Labor majority over Liberal: 0.8
Status: Very Marginal Labor
2014 results
Candidates
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Sarah Dekiere
Australian Greens |
Asher Judah
Liberal Party |
Nick Staikos
Australian Labor Party |
Oscar Lobo (Independent)
Asher Judah (Liberal Party)
Nick Staikos (Australian Labor Party)
Sarah Dekiere (Australian Greens)
Hans Verzijl (Sustainable Australia)
Naren Chellappah (Animal Justice Party)
Fi Fraser (Democratic Labor Party)
Ellie Sullivan (Derryn Hinch's Justice Party)
George Mavrogeni (Independent)
Bentleigh District
Bentleight has existed since 1967, when the old seat of Ormond was abolished. It has always occupied a block
of middle-class suburbs in the inner south-east of Melbourne. In the 1960s this was a fast-growing area of young
families with children. Today it has an ageing population, although recently population density has increased as
more people take up apartment-dwelling in areas closer to the city.
Bentleigh has always been a fairly marginal seat, usually electing a member of the governing party of the day.
For its first 12 years that meant the Liberals of Henry Bolte and Dick Hamer, but in 1979 it elected a Labor member,
and Labor retained the seat until the Kennett landslide of 1992. Inga Peulich, the Liberal member elected in 1992, was defeated
in 2002 by Labor's Rob Hudson. In 2010 Hudson lost very narrowly to the Liberal, Elizabeth Miller. In 2014 there was a
small swing back to Labor, but enough to elect Nick Staikos as the new member.
Nick Staikos, Labor MLA for Bentleigh since 2014, was a staffer for Judith Graley, Ann Barker, Simon Crean and
Clare O'Neil before his election. He was also a Glen Eira City councillor.
Bentleigh is the northernmost of the "Frankston Line Four" seats which Labor won in 2014, mainly on public
transport issues. It is a seat the Liberals must regain if they are to win government. The Liberal candidate in 2018
is Asher Judah, who has worked for the Victorian Farmers Federation, the Master Builders Association and the Property
Council. He is now a consultant. The Greens candidate is Sarah Dekiere, a science and mathematics teacher.
Boundaries following 2014 redistricting:
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