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Victorian state election, 2018
Prahran District
Inner Melbourne: East St Kilda, Prahran, South Yarra, Toorak, Windsor
Federal seats: Parts of Higgins and
Macnamara
Legislative Council: Southern Metropolitan Region
Local government areas: Parts of Glen Eira, Melbourne, Port Phillip and Stonnington
Enrolment 2014 election: 44,075
Enrolment 2018 election: 50,373 (up 14.3%)
Sitting member:
Sam Hibbins (Greens): Elected 2014
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.3
2014 Greens majority over Liberal: 0.4
Status: Very marginal Greens versus Liberal and Labor
2014 results
Candidates
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Dr Katie Allen
Liberal Party |
Sam Hibbins
Australian Greens |
Neil Pharaoh
Australian Labor Party |
Leon Kofmansky (Democratic Labour Party)
Dr Katie Allen (Liberal Party)
Neil Pharaoh (Australian Labor Party)
Sam Hibbins (Australian Greens)
Dennis Bilic (Sustainable Australia)
Tom Tomlin (Fiona Patten's Reason Party)
Jennifer Long (Animal Justice Party)
Wendy Patterson (Independent)
Alan Menadue (Independent)
Prahran District
Prahran has existed since 1889, and has always combined wealthy areas such as South Yarra with less affluent areas in Prahran and
Windsor. In the postwar years it became a centre of Greek migrant settlement, and also has a substantial Jewish community in East St
Kilda. In recent decades it has become a densely-populated, cosmopolitan inner-city seat, with many affluent singles, and a
signficant gay and lesbian presence.
Prfahran elected a Labor member as early as 1894, and has usually been a marginal seat. But it was held for the Liberals through the
Bolte and Hamer years by a Liberal, Sam Loxton, a former test cricketer. After his retirement in 1979 the seat fell to Labor, but was
regained by the Liberals following a favourable redistricting in 1985. Don Hayward (member 1985-96) was a minister in the Kennett
government. He was succeeded by another Liberal, Leonie Burke, but she was defeated in Labor's landslide victory in 2002. Labor
member Tony Lupton held the seat until 2010, when he was defeated by Liberal Clem Newton-Brown.
In 2014 there was a tense three-way struggle between Newton-Brown, Labor's Neil Pharoah and the Greens' Sam Hibbins. When the minor
candidates were eliminated, Hibbins was 30 votes ahead of Pharoah, and Pharoah's preferences then gave Hibbins a 300-vote win over
Newton-Brown.
Sam Hibbins, Greens MLA for Prahran since 2014, was a social worker and a Stonnington City councillor before his election. The Labor
candidate will again be Neil Pharoah, who works in marketing and fundraising and been has a prominent gay rights campaigner. The Liberal
candidate Dr Katie Allen, a paediatrician. This is a seat which all three parties will be keen to win.
Boundaries following 2014 redistricting:
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