Electoral district of Mildura

Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria and sits within the Northern Victoria electorate.[1] It is a 37,529 km2 rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale.

Mildura
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
Location of Mildura (dark green) in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created1927
MPJade Benham
PartyNational
NamesakeTown of Mildura
Electors44,401 (2018)
Area37,529 km2 (14,490.0 sq mi)
DemographicRural
Electorates around Mildura:
South Australia New South Wales New South Wales
South Australia Mildura Murray Plains
South Australia Lowan Ripon

Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of Labor control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the Liberal Party, with journalist Craig Bildstien winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent Russell Savage. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide.

Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party.

Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.

Members for Mildura

MemberPartyTerm
 Albert AllnuttCountry Progressive1927–1930
 Country1930–1945
 Independent1945
 Louis GarlickLabor1945–1947
 Nathaniel BarclayCountry1947–1952
 Alan LindLabor1952–1955
 Nathaniel BarclayCountry1955–1962
 Milton WhitingCountry1962–1975
 National Country1975–1982
 National1982–1988
 Craig BildstienLiberal1988–1996
 Russell SavageIndependent1996–2006
 Peter CrispNational2006–2018
 Ali CupperIndependent2018–2022
 Jade BenhamNational2022–present

Election results

2022 Victorian state election: Mildura[2][3][4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
IndependentAli Cupper12,91333.9+2.9
NationalJade Benham9,86825.9−11.4
LiberalPaul Matheson7,29119.1+16.1
LaborStella Zigouras2,4836.5−11.1
IndependentGlenn Milne1,7164.5+4.5
Ind. (Australia One)Sonia Brymer1,0802.8+2.8
GreensKatie Clements8942.3−1.4
Democratic LabourFelicity Sharpe5861.5+1.4
Family FirstBrad Stratton5601.5+1.5
FreedomPhilippe John Brougham4161.1+1.1
Animal JusticeAngylina Zayn3330.9+0.8
Total formal votes38,14092.5−2.3
Informal votes3,0967.5+2.3
Turnout41,23686.0-1.9
Notional two-party-preferred count
NationalJade Benham24,45464.1+8.0
LaborStella Zigouras13,68635.9-8.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
NationalJade Benham19,52051.2+0.9
IndependentAli Cupper18,62048.8−0.9
National gain from IndependentSwing+0.9

References

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