Thomastown
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Thomastown (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
StateVictoria
Created1985
MPBronwyn Halfpenny
PartyLabor Party
Electors44,619 (2018)
Area91 km2 (35.1 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan

The electoral district of Thomastown is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.[1] It currently includes the suburbs of Lalor and Thomastown, and parts of Fawkner, Reservoir and Wollert, and has been in existence since 1985.

The seat is extremely safe for the Labor Party. At the 2002 election, Labor frontbencher Peter Batchelor won the seat with over 80% of the two-party-preferred vote, making Thomastown the safest seat in the state.

The seat's first member, Beth Gleeson, died whilst in office in December 1989. The resulting February 1990 by-election, held when support for Labor had plummeted as a result of an economic crisis, was nearly won by the Australian Democrats.

Members for Thomastown

Member Party Term
  Beth Gleeson Labor 1985–1989
  Peter Batchelor Labor 1990–2010
  Bronwyn Halfpenny Labor 2010–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Thomastown.[edit]
2022 Victorian state election: Thomastown[2][3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bronwyn Halfpenny 19,396 51.7 −10.1
Liberal Gurdawar Singh 9,003 24.0 +8.8
Victorian Socialists Kelly Cvetkova 2,873 7.7 +4.8
Family First Colleen McNamara 2,571 6.9 +6.9
Greens Matt Sinapi 2,557 6.8 +2.7
Animal Justice Evie Levens 1,076 2.9 +0.4
Total formal votes 37,429 92.2 +4.2
Informal votes 3,151 7.8 −4.2
Turnout 40,580 85.2 +1.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Bronwyn Halfpenny 24,628 65.8 −11.6
Liberal Gurdawar Singh 12,801 34.2 +11.6
Labor hold Swing−11.6

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  3. ↑ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Thomastown District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  5. ↑ Full preference distributions – 2022 State election, Victorian Electoral Commission. [Retrieved 17 June 2023.


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