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Victorian state election, 2018
Box Hill District
Eastern Melbourne: Blackburn, Box Hill, Mont Albert, parts of Balwyn, Nunawading
Federal seats: Parts of Chisholm,
Deakin and
Kooyong
Legislative Council: Eastern Metropolitan Region
Local government areas: Parts of Boroondarra and Whitehorse
Enrolment 2014 election: 43,389
Enrolment 2018 election: 43,983 (up 1.4%)
Sitting member:
Hon Robert Clark (Liberal): Elected (Balwyn) 1988, (Box Hill) 1992, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 13.8
2014 Liberal majority over Labor: 5.7
Status: Marginal Liberal
2014 results
Candidates
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Hon Robert Clark
Liberal Party |
Paul Hamer
Australian Labor Party |
Sophia Sun
Australian Greens |
Hon Robert Clark (Liberal Party)
Paul Hamer (Australian Labor Party)
Sophia Sun (Australian Greens)
Box Hill District
Box Hill has existed since 1945, and at various times has taken in most of the outer north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Since the
1980s it has been cut back to a block of suburbs running east-west along Whitehorse Road. In the
1950s and '60s this was a fast-growing area of young middle-class homebuyers with children, but today it has a stable, home-owning,
ageing population. Box Hill itself has become the centre of settlement of Chinese immigrants in Melbourne.
For its first 25 years Box Hill was uusally a fairly safe Liberal seat, being lost to Labor only in 1945 and 1952. It was held for many
years (1945-52, 1955-73) by the veteran Liberal minister George O Reid. Labor won it again in 1982 and held it for ten years. But the
1992 redistricting, which abolished the seat of Balwyn, moved Box Hill into solid Liberal territory and made it a safe seat for
the current member, Robert Clark. The 2014 redistricting, however, parly reversed this, adding Blackburn and again making the seat
marginal.
Robert Clark, Liberal MLA for Box Hill since 1992 and before that for Balwyn since 1988, was a solicitor before entering politics. He was
a parliamentary secretary throughout the Kennett government, and an opposition frontbencher from 1999 to 2010. In the Baillieu and
Napthine governments he was Attorney-General and Minister for Finance, and in 2013-14 he was also Minister for Industrial Relations.
He is now Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations and for Counter Terrorism. He is the longest serving member of the current
Victorian Parliament.
The Labor candidate in 2018 is Paul Hamer, a transport engineer. The Greens candidate is Sophia Sun, a researcher and
businesswoman.
Boundaries following 2014 redistricting:
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