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Victorian state election, 28 November 2026
Hastings District
Location: Hastings, Langwarrin, Tyabb
Legislative Council:
Eastern Victoria Region
Enrolment 2022 election: 48,674
Enrolment November 2025: 50,051
Sitting member: Paul Mercurio (Labor): Elected 2022
2018 Liberal majority over Labor 01.1%
2021 redistricting: Labor majority over Liberal 00.0%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 01.4%
Status: Very marginal Labor
Hastings was created in 2002, formed from parts of the old seats of Mornington and Cranbourne. It is centred on the town of Hastings, once a fishing village on Western Port but now an industrial port and the site of the BlueScope steel works. The industrialisation of the area has brought a substantial Labor vote with it, into what was once a safely conservative rural area. Labor's strength is the town of Hastings, and also the Frankston suburb of Langwarrin at the northern end of the seat. Rural towns such as Baxter and Tyabb are still strongly Liberal.
Hastings was won in the Labor landslide year of 2002 by Rosie Buchanan, but she was defeated in 2006 by Neale Burgess, a barrister. Burgess was comfortably re-elected in 2010 and 2014, but in 2018 he suffered a 6% swing and his majority was cut to 1.1%. The 2021 redistricting further weakened the Liberal position by removing Liberal-voting Devon Meadows and Pearcedale and adding Labor-inclined Balnarring and Bittern. This wiped out the Liberal majority and made Hastings the most marginal seat in the state.
Burgess retired at the 2022 election and Hastings was won by Labor's Paul Mercurio, in his earlier life a dancer and actor ("Strictly Ballroom," 1992), and more recently a chef and Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor. Mercurio has a slender majority of 1.4% and will be in danger if there is any substantial swing to the Liberals in 2006.
2022 results
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Boundaries following
2021 redistricting |
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Candidates:
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Paul Mercurio
Australian Labor Party |
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