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Victorian state election, 28 November 2026
Box Hill District
Location: Blackburn, Box Hill, Mont Albert
Legislative Council:
North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Enrolment 2022 election: 50,799
Enrolment November 2025: 51,078
Sitting member: Paul Hamer (party): Elected 2018, 2022
2018 majority: Labor over Liberal 02.1
2021 redistricting: Labor over Liberal 03.1%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.2%
Status: Marginal Labor
Box Hill has existed since 1945, and at various times has taken in most of the outer north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Since the 1980s it has been cut back to a block of suburbs running east-west along Whitehorse Road. In the 1950s and '60s this was a fast-growing area of young middle-class homebuyers with children, but today it has a stable, home-owning, ageing population. Box Hill itself has become the centre of settlement of Chinese immigrants in Melbourne.
For its first 25 years Box Hill was uusally a fairly safe Liberal seat, being lost to Labor only in 1945 and 1952. It was held for many years (1945-52, 1955-73) by the veteran Liberal minister George O Reid. Labor won it again in 1982 and held it for ten years. But the 1992 redistricting, which abolished the seat of Balwyn, moved Box Hill into solid Liberal territory and made it a safe seat for the long-serving Liberal member, Robert Clark. The 2014 redistricting, however, parly reversed this, adding Blackburn and again making the seat marginal. As a result, Clark was defeated in 2018 by Labor's Paul Hamer. Hamer was a civil engineer before entering politics.
2022 results
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Boundaries following
2021 redistricting |
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Candidates:
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Paul Hamer
Australian Labor Party |
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