Electoral district of Footscray
| Footscray Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
|---|---|
_2022.svg) Location of Footscray (dark green) in Greater Melbourne | |
| State | Victoria |
| Dates current | 1877–1904 1927–present |
| MP | Katie Hall |
| Party | Labor Party |
| Namesake | Footscray, Victoria |
| Electors | 51,602 (2018) |
| Area | 23 km2 (8.9 sq mi) |
| Demographic | Inner metropolitan |
| Coordinates | 37°48′S 144°52′E / 37.800°S 144.867°E |
The electoral district of Footscray is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne, covering the suburbs of Footscray, Maidstone, Maribyrnong, Seddon, West Footscray, and parts of Yarraville.
The seat was first created by The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876 taking effect at the 1877 elections.[1] It was abolished in 1904 and recreated in 1927. In its current incarnation it has been held by the Labor Party for its entire existence. It has usually been a comfortably safe Labor seat, as it lies in Labor's traditional heartland of western and northern Melbourne.
Members for Footscray[edit]
| First incarnation (1877–1904) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Mark Last King | Unaligned | 1877–1879 | |
| William Clark | Unaligned | 1879–1894 | |
| John Hancock | Labor | 1894–1899 | |
| Samuel Mauger | Independent | 1900–1901 | |
| Jacob Fotheringham | Liberal | 1901–1902 | |
| Alexander McDonald | Liberal | 1902–1904 | |
| Second incarnation (1927–present) | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| George Prendergast | Labor | 1927–1937 | |
| Jack Mullens | Labor | 1937–1945 | |
| Jack Holland | Labor | 1945–1955 | |
| Roy Schintler | Labor | 1955–1958 | |
| Ernie Shepherd | Labor | 1958 | |
| Bill Divers | Labor | 1958–1970 | |
| Robert Fordham | Labor | 1970–1992 | |
| Bruce Mildenhall | Labor | 1992–2006 | |
| Marsha Thomson | Labor | 2006–2018 | |
| Katie Hall | Labor | 2018–present | |
Election results[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Katie Hall | 17,387 | 43.1 | −11.8 | |
| Greens | Elena Pereyra | 9,045 | 22.4 | +2.2 | |
| Liberal | Emete Joesika | 7,214 | 17.9 | +0.8 | |
| Victorian Socialists | Jorge Jorquera | 3,769 | 9.3 | +9.3 | |
| Democratic Labour | Alan Williams | 1,098 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
| Animal Justice | Shohre Mansouri Jajaee | 989 | 2.5 | −3.5 | |
| Family First | Russell Muir | 838 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
| Total formal votes | 40,340 | 96.1 | +1.5 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,654 | 3.9 | −1.5 | ||
| Turnout | 41,994 | 86.0 | +0.4 | ||
| Notional two-party-preferred count | |||||
| Labor | Katie Hall | 30,523 | 75.7 | −3.0 | |
| Liberal | Emete Joesika | 9,817 | 24.3 | +3.0 | |
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Katie Hall | 21,880 | 54.2 | −13.9 | |
| Greens | Elena Pereyra | 18,460 | 45.8 | +13.9 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | −13.9 | |||
Graphical summary[edit]
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
First preference vote history in Footscray since 1927 (Candidates under 5 per cent are excluded unless there are significance of candidacies at a given year)
| Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Distribution of preference results in Footscray.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- ^ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ Footscray District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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