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Victorian state election, 2018
Mount Waverley District
Eastern Melbourne: Glen Waverley, Mount Waverley
Federal seats: Parts of Chisholm and
Hotham
Legislative Council: Eastern Metropolitan Region
Local government areas: Part of Monash
Enrolment 2014 election: 39,993
Enrolment 2018 election: 38,937 (down 2.6%)
Sitting member:
Michael Gidley (Liberal): Elected 2010, 2014
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 7.5
2014 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.6
Status: Marginal Liberal
2014 results
Candidates
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Matt Fregon
Australian Labor Party |
Michael Gidley
Liberal Party |
Justin McCarthy
Australian Greens |
Matt Fregon (Australian Labor Party)
Michael Gidley (Liberal Party)
Justin McCarthy (Australian Greens)
Mount Waverley District
Mount Waverley was created in 2002, replacing the abolished seats of Bennettswood and Glen Waverley. It is a
block of middle-class suburbs in eastern Melbourne, an area with an affluent, ageing, home-owning population. This is
one of only three districts in the state where enrolments have fallen since the 2014 election.
Seats in this part of Melbourne are usually reliably Liberal, although Labor won Bennetteswood in 1982. Ross
Smith won Glen Waverley in 1985 and held it until it was abolished in 2002. Ron Wilson won Bennetteswood in 1999,
and contested the new seat of Mount Waverley in 2002, only to be unexpectedly defeated by Labor's Maxine Morand,
who held the seat until 2010, when the Liberals reclaimed it.
Michael Gidley, Liberal MLA for Mount Waverley since 2010, was a tax accountant and business adviser before
entering politics. He is now Shadow Assistant Minister for Small Business, Investment, Jobs and Trade. The Labor
candidate is Matt Fregon, runs an IT business. The Greens candidate, Justin McCarthy, works in the aged care sector.
Boundaries following 2014 redistricting:
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