Bellarine
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Bellarine (dark green) in Victoria
StateVictoria
Dates current1967–1976
1985–present
MPAlison Marchant
PartyLabor Party
NamesakeBellarine Peninsula
Electors55,022 (2022)
Area356 km2 (137.5 sq mi)
DemographicUrbanised Rural
Electorates around Bellarine:
Port Phillip Bay Port Phillip Bay Port Phillip Bay
Lara
South Barwon		 Bellarine Port Phillip Bay
Bass Strait Bass Strait Port Phillip Bay

The electoral district of Bellarine is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 367 square kilometres (142 sq mi) stretching from the Bellarine Peninsula to the outer eastern suburbs of Geelong. It includes the towns of Barwon Heads, Clifton Springs, Drysdale, Indented Head, Ocean Grove, Point Lonsdale, Portarlington and Queenscliff and the Geelong suburbs of Leopold and Moolap. It lies within the Western Victoria Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council.[1]

The seat was first created in a redistribution prior to the 1967 election but was abolished and replaced by Geelong East and South Barwon in 1976. It was revived prior to the 1985 election after Geelong East was itself abolished and population increases in South Barwon moved that electorate westwards.

It has traditionally been a marginal seat. Graham Ernst of the Labor Party won the seat in the 1985 and 1988 elections but was defeated at the 1992 election by the Liberal Party's Garry Spry who held the seat until his retirement in 2002. At the election in November of that year it was one of many seats to fall to the Labor Party, with Lisa Neville winning the seat on a swing of over nine percent.

Members for Bellarine

First incarnation (1967-1976)
MemberPartyTerm
  Aurel Smith     Liberal 1967–1976    
Second incarnation (1985–present)
  Graham Ernst Labor 1985–1992
  Garry Spry Liberal 1992–2002
  Lisa Neville Labor 2002–2022
  Alison Marchant Labor 2022–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Bellarine.[edit]
2022 Victorian state election: Bellarine[2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Alison Marchant 20,103 42.6 −7.1
Liberal Donnie Grigau 15,617 33.1 −2.5
Greens Rachel Semmens 5,537 11.7 +2.6
Independent Sarah Fenton 2,158 4.6 +4.6
Animal Justice Adam Cardilini 1,088 2.3 −2.2
Family First Guy Manuell 1,033 2.2 +2.2
Justice Brett Anthony Ritchie 770 1.6 +1.6
Freedom Kylee Muse 458 1.0 +1.0
Angry Victorians Brendan Taylor 389 0.8 +0.8
Total formal votes 47,153 95.6 –0.4
Informal votes 2,156 4.4 +0.4
Turnout 49,309 89.6 +3.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Alison Marchant 27,567 58.5 −3.0
Liberal Donnie Grigau 19,586 41.5 +3.0
Labor hold Swing−3.0
Two-party-preferred vote results in Bellarine

References

  1. ↑ "Bellarine District profile". Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 December 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. ↑ "Bellarine District resultswebsite=Victorian Electoral Commission". Retrieved 1 December 2022.


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