Electoral district of Sunbury

The electoral district of Sunbury is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election.[1]

Sunbury
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
Location of Sunbury (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
StateVictoria
Created2014
MPJosh Bull
PartyLabor
NamesakeSunbury
Electors45,588 (2018)
Area340 km2 (131.3 sq mi)
DemographicOuter metropolitan

It is a new district that was created in the fast-growing outer northwestern fringe of Melbourne from areas in the district of Macedon. It is centred on the city of Sunbury, and includes the towns of Diggers Rest, Bulla, Westmeadows and Gladstone Park.[2]

Sunbury was estimated to be a fairly safe Labor seat with a margin of 6.5% at the time of its creation.[3] Labor member Josh Bull became the first member for Sunbury at the 2014 election.[4]

Members

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Member Party Term
  Josh Bull Labor 2014–present

Election results

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2022 Victorian state election: Sunbury[5][6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Josh Bull 16,253 43.1 −15.5
Liberal Simmone Cottom 11,895 31.6 −2.1
Greens Richard Burke 2,459 6.5 −1.2
Animal Justice Rohanna Mohr 1,537 4.1 +4.1
Family First Charles Pace 1,445 3.8 +3.8
Independent Laurence Pincini 1,432 3.8 +3.8
Democratic Labour Peter Bayliss 1,317 3.5 +3.5
Victorian Socialists James Gallagher 1,164 3.1 +3.1
New Democrats Rushi Vijaykumar Patel 204 0.5 +0.5
Total formal votes 37,706 93.5 –0.5
Informal votes 2,620 6.5 +0.5
Turnout 40,326 88.5 +0.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Josh Bull 21,271 56.4 −8.1
Liberal Simmone Cottom 16,435 43.6 +8.1
Labor hold Swing −8.1

References

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  1. ^ "Summary of Changes". Victorian Electoral Boundary Commission. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Map of Sunbury District". Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission.
  3. ^ Green, Antony (23 January 2024). "2013 Victorian Redistribution Analysis of Electoral Boundaries". ABC.
  4. ^ "Victorian state election: Huge numbers of rookie MPs take their seats". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  5. ^ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  6. ^ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  7. ^ Sunbury District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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