Hawthorn
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Hawthorn (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
StateVictoria
Created1889
MPJohn Pesutto
PartyLiberal
NamesakeHawhtorn
Electors44,828 (2018)
Area21 km2 (8.1 sq mi)
DemographicInner metropolitan
Coordinates37°50′S 145°03′E / 37.833°S 145.050°E / -37.833; 145.050
Electorates around Hawthorn:
Richmond Kew Box Hill
Richmond Hawthorn Box Hill
Malvern Ashwood Ashwood

The electoral district of Hawthorn is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was first proclaimed in 1888[1] taking effect at the 1889 elections.

The seat is located in eastern Melbourne and is centred on the suburbs of Hawthorn and Hawthorn East. It also includes Camberwell and parts of Canterbury, Glen Iris, and Surrey Hills.

It has usually been a safe seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors, having been held by a number of leaders and senior ministers. With the exception of two occasions when Liberal MPs defected and sat as independents, it has only been held by non-Liberal MPs three times in its history: independent Leslie Hollins from 1940 to 1945, Labor-turned-Labor (Anti-Communist) MP Charles Murphy from 1952 to 1955, and Labor MP John Kennedy from a shock win in 2018, before being unseated by previous Liberal Member, John Pesutto, in 2022.

Notable former members for Hawthorn include former premiers Sir William McPherson and Ted Baillieu, as well as Walter Jona, a minister in the Hamer government.

The current member is John Pesutto, the current leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria.[2]

Members for Hawthorn

MemberPartyTerm
  Charles Taylor Liberal 1889–1894
  Robert Murray Smith Conservative 1894–1900
  Robert Barbour Liberal 1900–1901
  Ministerialist 1901–1902
  George Swinburne Ministerialist 1902–1907
  Independent 1907–1911
  Liberal 1911–1913
  William Murray McPherson Liberal 1913–1916
  Economy 1916–1917
  Nationalist 1917–1930
  John Gray Nationalist 1930–1931
  United Australia 1931–1939
  Les Tyack United Australia 1939–1940
  Leslie Hollins Independent 1940–1945
  Fred Edmunds Liberal 1945–1949
  Independent 1949–1950
  Les Tyack Liberal 1950–1952
  Charles Murphy Labor 1952–1955
  Labor (Anti-Communist) 1955
  Jim Manson Liberal 1955–1958
  Peter Garrisson Liberal 1958–1963
  Independent 1963–1964
  Walter Jona Liberal 1964–1985
  Phil Gude Liberal 1985–1999
  Ted Baillieu Liberal 1999–2014
  John Pesutto Liberal 2014–2018
  John Kennedy Labor 2018–2022
  John Pesutto Liberal 2022–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Hawthorn.[edit]
2022 Victorian state election: Hawthorn[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Pesutto 18,728 42.3 −1.8
Labor John Kennedy 9,799 22.1 −10.9
Independent Melissa Lowe 8,851 20.0 +20.0
Greens Nick Savage 4,927 11.1 −6.4
Animal Justice Faith Fuhrer 660 1.5 −0.7
Liberal Democrats Richard Peppard 583 1.3 +1.3
Family First Ken Triantafillis 408 0.9 +0.9
Democratic Labour Stratton Bell 354 0.8 +0.8
Total formal votes 44,310 97.4 +1.0
Informal votes 1,178 2.6 −1.0
Turnout 45,488 90.8 +1.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal John Pesutto 22,927 51.7 +2.3
Labor John Kennedy 21,383 48.3 –2.3
Liberal gain from Labor Swing+2.3

References

  1. ↑ "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888" (PDF). Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Labor's Emma Vulin wins Pakenham after nail-biting race, as Victorian Liberals choose new leader". ABC News. 8 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  3. ↑ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  4. ↑ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Hawthorn District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  • "Re-Member". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 12 March 2014.


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