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Victorian state election, 2018
Melbourne District
Inner Melbourne: Carlton, North Carlton, East Melbourne, Kensington, North Melbourne
Federal seats: Parts of Melbourne and
Maribyrnong
Legislative Council: Northern Metropolitan Region
Local government areas: Part of Melbourne
Enrolment 2014 election: 43,801
Enrolment 2018 election: 50,395 (up 15.1%)
Sitting member:
Ellen Sandell (Greens): Elected 2014
2010 Labor majority over Greens 6.2:
2013 by-election Labor majority over Greens 1.5
2014 Greens majority over Labor: 2.4
Status: Very marginal Greens over Labor
2014 results
Candidates
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Jennifer Kanis
Australian Labor Party |
Ellen Sandell
Australian Greens |
Darin Schade
Liberal Party |
Ellen Sandell (Australian Greens)
Darin Schade (Liberal Party)
Peter Hanlon (Independent)
Benjamin Rookes (Liberal Democrats)
Kim Fuhrmann (Independent)
Jennifer Kanis (Australian Labor Party)
Lawrence Pope (Animal Justice Party)
Leo Close (Fiona Patten's Reason Party)
Melbourne District
The current electorate of Melbourne has existed since 1889 (there was an earlier multi-member seat of Melbourne between 1856 and 1859).
At that time it included only the current central business district, but over successive redistrictings it expanded to take in the
surrounding inner suburbs. When West Melbourne was abolished in 1904, it became a largely working-class seat, although East Melbourne
remained an upper-income enclave, as it still is. From the 1970s, as manufacturing left the inner city area and took working-class
voters with it, the seat has become increasingly populated by affluent professionals, and is today one of the most affluent areas in
Victoria.
Melbourne first elected a Labor member in 1908. Labor then held the seat for 106 years, until the 2014 election. Barry Jones
held Melbourne from 1972 to 1977 before moving to federal politics. Bronwyn Pike, who held it from 1999 to 2012, was a minister in the
Bracks Government. Her resignation in 2012 caused a by-election, which was won by Labor's Jennifer Kanis.
Labor's primary vote in Melbourne fell from nearly 70% in 1988 to 35% in 2010, while the Greens vote rose from nothing to 33%. At the 2012
by-election, which the Liberals did not contest, the Greens overtook Labor's primary vote, and Labor won only with minority party
preferences. At the 2014 election, Labor's vote fell to 30%, while the Greens polled over 40%, and Kanis was defeated by the Greens'
Ellen Sandell.
Ellen Sandell, Greens MLA for Melbourne since 2014, was a policy adviser in the Victorian Office of Climate Change, and national director
of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, before her election. Her Labor opponent will be the former member Jennifer kanis, a teacher
and lawyer, and a former Melbourne City councillor. She is currently Social Justice Practice Manager at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers. The
last-minute Liberal candidate is Darin Schade, about whom nothing is known.
Boundaries following 2014 redistricting:
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