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Victorian state election, 28 November 2026
Richmond District
Location: Collingwood, Fitzroy, Richmond
Legislative Council:
Northern Metropolitan Region
Enrolment 2022 election: 48,305
Enrolment November 2025: 49,245
Sitting member: Gabrielle de Vietri (Greens): Elected 2022
2018 Labor majority over Greens: 05.5%
2021 redistricting: Labor majority over Greens 05.8%
2022 Greens majority over Labor: 07.2%
Status: Very safe Greens versus Liberals, vulnerable to Labor
The seat of Richmond 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 Brighton and Williamstown). Even then Richmond was becoming a manufacturing centre and was soon a solidly working-class area. Between the depression of the 1890s and the 1950s it was close to being a slum, and was dominated by a semi-criminal Irish-Catholic political machine. After World War II it was settled by waves of immigrants, first Greeks, the Vietnamese, more recently Africans. In the 1960s high-rise blocks of flats were built by the state Housing Commission, and these are still home to large numbers of recent immigrants and low-income people.
Not surprisingly, Richmond was one of the first Assembly districts to elect a Labor member, in 1889, and was held by Labor continously from 1908, the only break being in 1955 when Frank Scully held it as "anti-Communist Labor" for one term. Until the rise of the Greens in the 1990s, Richmond was one of the safest Labor seats in the state. Like all inner-city areas, it has undergone radical social change as industry has moved away, followed by working-class voters. Today the Fitzroy, Collingwood and most of Richmond itself are largely inhabited by affluent professionals, who form the voting base for the Greens.
Labor's primary vote in Richmond fell from 70% in 1985 to 33% in 2014, while the Greens rose from nothing to 30%. The seat has been natural Greens territory for 20 years, and Labor retained it only through the personal standing of Dick Wynne, who was a senior minister in the Bracks, Brumby and Andrews governments. With his retirement in 2022 the Greens finally took the seat. Recent members: Theo Sidiropoulos (Labor) 1977-88, Dimitri Dollis (Labor) 1988-99, Dick Wynne (Labor) 1999-2022, Gabrielle De Vietri (Greens) since 2022.
2022 results
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Boundaries following
2021 redistricting |
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Candidates:
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Gabrielle de Vietri
Victorian Greens |
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