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Victorian state election, 2018
Mordialloc District
Southern Melbourne: Chelsea, Chelsea heights, Mentone, Mordialloc, Parkdale
Federal seats: Part of Isaacs
Legislative Council: South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Local government areas: Part of Greater Dandenong and Kingston
Enrolment 2014 election: 43,607
Enrolment 2018 election: 46,041 (up 5.6%)
Sitting member:
Tim Richardson (Labor): Elected 2014
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 2.1
2014 Labor majority over Liberal: 2.1
Status: Very marginal Labor
2014 results
Candidates
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Geoff Gledhill
Liberal Party |
Tim Richardson
Australian Labor Party |
Hamish Taylor
Australian Greens |
Robyn Nolan (Independent)
Tim Richardson (Australian Labor Party)
Peter Sullivan (Derryn Hinch's Justice Party)
Phil Reid (Independent)
Hamish Taylor (Australian Greens)
Stephen Watson (Independent)
Bronwyn Currie (Animal Justice Party)
Amit Verma (Transport Matters)
Geoff Gledhill (Liberal Party)
Peter Phillips (Democratic Labor Party)
Mordialloc District
Modialloc was created in 1992, largely replacing the old seat of Mentone, although rather further south. On its current
boundaries it stretches from middle-class beachside suburbia around Parkdale and Mentone in the north to low-income suburbs in
Edithvale, Chelsea and Chelsea Heights, with Mordialloc in the centre of the seat.
Mordialloc has always been a marginal seat, only once electing a non-government member, in 1999. Every member for the seat has
eventually been defeated. It was contested in 1992 for Labor by Peter Spyker, a minister in the Kirner government who had previously
been MLA for Heatherton and Mentone. He was defeated by Geoff Leigh, who was MLA for Malvern from 1982 to 1992 before losing his
Liberal enorsement. Having successfuly transferred to Mordialloc, Leigh held the seat until his defeat in the Bracks landslide of
2002. His Labor successor, Janice Munt, was defeated in 2010 by the Liberal Lorraine Wreford, who was in turn defeated in 2014.
Tim Richardson, Labor MLA for Mordialloc since 2014, was a staffer for Tammy Lobato MLA and Mark Dreyfus MHR before being elected.
Mordialloc is one of the "Frankston Line Four" seats which Labor won in 2014, mainly on public transport issues. It is a seat the
Liberals must win if they are to regain government. The Liberal candidate in 2018 is Geoff Gledhill, a local businessman and
Kingston City councillor. The Greens candidate is Hamish Taylor, whose occupation is not stated.
Boundaries following 2014 redistricting:
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