Laverton
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Laverton (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
StateVictoria
Created2022
MPSarah Connolly
PartyLabor
NamesakeLaverton, Victoria
Electors48,545 (2022)
Area87 km2 (33.6 sq mi)
DemographicUrban

The Electoral district of Laverton is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2021, and came into effect at the 2022 Victorian state election.[1]

It covers an area in the south western suburbs of Melbourne that was previously covered by the districts of Footscray, Tarneit, Altona, Kororoit and St Albans. It includes the suburbs of Sunshine, Braybrook, Albion, Ardeer, Sunshine West, Truganina, Laverton and Williams Landing.[2]

Members for Laverton

MemberPartyTerm
  Sarah Connolly Labor 2022–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Laverton.[edit]
2022 Victorian state election: Laverton[3][4][5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Sarah Connolly 17,026 45.9 −11.6
Liberal Raja Reddy 8,233 22.2 +1.9
Greens Braishna Durzada 3,496 9.4 −2.5
Victorian Socialists Catherine Robertson 2,206 5.9 +5.9
Democratic Labour Michael Wirth 2,051 5.5 +5.5
Family First David Fry 1,353 3.6 +3.6
New Democrats Gurneet Soni 1,082 2.9 +2.9
Animal Justice Pouya Bagheri 694 1.9 −2.0
Freedom Trent Raymond 641 1.7 +1.7
Independent Rufo Paredes 355 1.0 +1.0
Total formal votes 37,132 92.2 −1.1
Informal votes 3,149 7.8 +1.1
Turnout 40,281 83.0 +5.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Sarah Connolly 25,393 68.4 −5.0
Liberal Raja Reddy 11,739 31.6 +5.0
Labor hold Swing−5.0

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Summary of Changes". Victorian Electoral Boundary Commission. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Map of Laverton District" (PDF). Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission.
  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. ↑ Laverton District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  6. ↑ Full preference distributions – 2022 State election, Victorian Electoral Commission. [Retrieved 17 June 2023.


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