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Victorian state election, 28 November 2026
Bentleigh District
Location: Bentleigh, McKinnon, Moorabbin
Legislative Council:
Southern Metropolitan Region
Enrolment 2022 election: 51,415
Enrolment June 2026: 54,230 (up 05.5%)
Relevant demographics (2021 census)
High income: 34.2% (Aust average 22.6%)
Renting: 27.4% (Aust average 30.6%)
Paying a mortgage: 37.0% (Aust average 35.0%)
Couples with children: 66.0% (Aust average 43.7%)
Born overseas: 35.8% (Aust average 27.7%)
No religion: 40.6% (Aust average 38.9%)
University graduate: 40.8% (Aust average 26.3%)
Professional / managerial: 50.6% (Aust average 37.7%)
Sitting member: Hon Nick Staikos (Labor): Elected 2014, 2018, 2022
Minister for Housing, Building and Precints
Minister for Homelessness
Minister for Seniors
2018 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.9%
2021 redistricting: Labor over Liberal 11.5%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 08.0%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Bentleigh has existed since 1967, when the old seat of Ormond was abolished. It has always occupied a block of middle-class suburbs in the inner south-east of Melbourne. In the 1960s this was a fast-growing area of young families with children. Today it has an ageing population, although recently population density has increased as more people take up apartment-dwelling in areas closer to the city. It is a fairly affluent area with a high level of graduates. Bentleigh is the northernmost of the "Frankston Line Four" seats which Labor won in 2014, mainly on public transport issues.
Bentleigh has always been a fairly marginal seat, usually electing a member of the governing party of the day. For its first 12 years that meant the Liberals of Henry Bolte and Dick Hamer, but in 1979 it elected a Labor member, and Labor retained the seat until the Kennett landslide of 1992. Inga Peulich, the Liberal member elected in 1992, was defeated in 2002 by Labor's Rob Hudson. In 2010 Hudson lost very narrowly to the Liberal, Elizabeth Miller. In 2014 there was a small swing back to Labor, but enough to elect Nick Staikos as the new member.
Nick Staikos, Labor MLA for Bentleigh since 2014, was a staffer for Judith Graley, Ann Barker, Simon Crean and Clare O'Neil before his election. He was also a Glen Eira City councillor. He has been a Parliamentary Secretary since the 2022 election.
2022 results
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Boundaries following
2021 redistricting |
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Candidates:
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Liam Kruger
Victorian Socialists |
Tynan Putt
Liberal Party |
Hon Nick Staikos
Australian Labor Party |
Candidate websites
Liam Kruger (Vic Socialists)
Tynan Putt (Liberal)
Hon Nick Staikos (Labor)
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