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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 June 2026: 51,893 (up 02.2%)
Relevant demographics (2021 census)
High income: 27.9% (Aust average 22.6%)
Renting: 32.7% (Aust average 30.6%)
Paying a mortgage: 29.0% (Aust average 35.0%)
Couples with children: 61.0% (Aust average 43.7%)
Born overseas: 41.6% (Aust average 27.7%)
Born in China: 15.1% (Aust average 2.3%)
Chinese speakers: 23.9% (Aust average 4%)
No religion: 47.0% (Aust average 38.9%)
University graduate: 44.7% (Aust average 26.3%)
Professional / managerial: 50.8% (Aust average 37.7%)
Sitting member: Hon Paul Hamer (party): Elected 2018, 2022
Minister for Roads and Road Safety
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, affluent, home-owning, ageing population. Box Hill itself has become the centre of settlement of Chinese immigrants in Melbourne: in 2021 nearly a quarter of electorate spoke Chinese.
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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Saravina Afaj
Victorian Socialists |
Heena Sinha Cheung
Independent |
Hon Paul Hamer
Australian Labor Party |
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Sally Houguet
Liberal Party |
Aaron Qin
Australian Greens |
Candidate websites
Saravina Afaj (Vic Socialists)
Heena Sinha Cheung (Independent)
Hon Paul Hamer (Labor)
Sally Houguet (Liberal)
Aaron Qin (Greens)
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