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Victorian state election, 28 November 2026
Brighton District
Location: Brighton, Elwood, Hampton
Legislative Council:
Southern Metropolitan Region
Enrolment 2022 election: 48,260
Enrolment November 2025: 49,578
Sitting member: James Newbury (Liberal): Elected 2018, 2022
Shadow Attorney-General
Shadow Special Minister of State
Shadow Minister for Equality
2018 Liberal majority over Labor 01.1
2021 redistricting: Liberal majority over Labor 00.5%
2022 Liberal majority over Labor: 04.2%
Status: Marginal Liberal
The seat of Brighton has existed since the first Legislative Assembly election in 1856. It is one of only three districts to have existed continuously since then (the others being Richmond and Williamstown). It is centred on the bayside suburb of Brighton, which has always been one of Melbourne's wealthiest areas. In recent times the seat has expanded into slightly less aristocratic areas such as Elwood, but it is still one of Victoria's wealthiest electorates.
Not surprisingly, Brighton has never elected a Labor member, and has been held continuously by the Liberal Party since 1955. (Before that it occasionally elected independent members.) Members have included Liberal stalwarts such as Bolte-era minister John Rossiter and Alan Stockdale, Treasurer in the Kennett government. When Stockdale retired in 1992, Louise Asher transferred from the Legislative Council to Brighton, and was a minister in the Baillieu-Napthine government.
Asher retired in 2018, and the Liberals got a nasty shock when the Labor candidate, a 19-year-old student, cut the Liberal margin to 1.1%. At the 2022 election, the new Liberal mamber, James Newbury, restored the Liberal position, although Brighton is still classed as marginal. Newbury has an MBA and a law degree, but he has made his career mainly as a staffer to Liberal MPs and ministers, including Denis Napthine, Christopher Pyne, Joe Hockey, Richard Alston, Tony Abbott and Mitch Fifield.
2022 results
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Boundaries following
2021 redistricting |
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Candidates:
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James Newbury
Liberal Party |
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