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Victorian state election, 28 November 2026
Broadmeadows District
Location: Broadmeadows, Fawkner, Glenroy
Legislative Council:
Northern Metropolitan Region
Enrolment 2022 election: 48,414
Enrolment November 2025: 50,214
Sitting member: Kathleen Matthews-Ward (Labor): Elected 2022
2018 Labor majority over Liberal: 30.3%
2021 redistricting: Labor majority over Liberal 25.2%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 15.4%
Status: Safe Labor
Broadmeadows was created in 1955, originally as a semi-rural seat stretching as far north as Seymour. Subsequent redistrictings cut it back to a block of surburbs on the north-western fringe of Melbourne, centred on the growth hub of Broadmeadows. Rapid industrialisation and settlement of migrant workers turned this into a solidly working-class and multi-cultural seat, and it remains so today. It now has Victoria's highest concentration of Turkish-Australian residents.
Labor has held Broadmeadows since 1962, and since the 1970s it has consistently been one of Labor's safest seats. It was held by undistinguished backbenchers until 1988, when Labor minister Jim Kennan transferred from the Legislative Council. After Labor's defeat in 1992, Kennan became Opposition Leader, but in June 1993 he resigned. Labor then brought in former federal MP John Brumby as it new leader, and he won the by-election caused by Kennan's resignation. Brumby lost the 1996 election, and was then replaced as Leader by Steve Bracks. He served as Treasurer in the Bracks government until Bracks retired in July 2007. He was then elected Premier, and served until Labor's defeat at the 2010 election. He then resigned his seat causing another by-election.
Brumby was succeeded by media executive Frank McGuire, who spent eleven years on the backbench before being dropped at the 2022 election. The new member, Kathleen Matthews-Ward, worked in retail, hospitality, finance, advocacy and aged care, and was a City of Moreland councillor from 2004 to 2012.
2022 results
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Boundaries following
2021 redistricting |
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Candidates:
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Kathleen Matthews-Ward
Australian Labor Party |
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