Eastern Metropolitan Region

Eastern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.

Eastern Metropolitan Region
VictoriaLegislative Council
Location of Eastern Metropolitan Region (dark green) in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created2006
MPBruce Atkinson (Liberal)
Rod Barton (Transport Matters)
Shaun Leane (Labor)
Sonja Terpstra (Labor)
Matthew Bach (Liberal)
Party  Liberal (2)
  Labor (2)
  Transport Matters (1)
Electors469,549 (2018)
Area420 km2 (162.2 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates37°48′S 145°11′E

The region extends from Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs of Bulleen and Doncaster, north across the Yarra River to Lower Plenty and Eltham, and across to Bayswater, Croydon and Ferntree Gully (in the Dandenong Ranges) in the east below the Dandenong Ranges. The most southerly suburb is Rowville. It comprises the Legislative Assembly districts of Bayswater, Box Hill, Bulleen, Croydon, Eltham, Ferntree Gully, Forest Hill, Ivanhoe, Mount Waverley, Ringwood and Warrandyte.

Members

Members for Eastern Metropolitan Region
Year Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party
2006   Shaun Leane Labor   Brian Tee Labor   Richard Dalla-Riva Liberal   Jan Kronberg Liberal   Bruce Atkinson Liberal
2010
2014   Samantha Dunn Greens   Mary Wooldridge Liberal
2018   Sonja Terpstra Labor   Rod Barton Transport Matters
2020   Matthew Bach Liberal

Returned MLCs by seat

Seats are allocated by single transferable vote using group voting tickets. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity.[1][2][3]

Election 1st MLC 2nd MLC 3rd MLC 4th MLC 5th MLC
2006 Liberal
(Richard Dalla-Riva)
Labor
(Shaun Leane)
Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)
Labor
(Brian Tee)
Liberal
(Jan Kronberg)
2010 Liberal
(Richard Dalla-Riva)
Labor
(Shaun Leane)
Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)
Liberal
(Jan Kronberg)
Labor
(Brian Tee)
2014 Liberal
(Mary Wooldridge)
Labor
(Shaun Leane)
Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)
Liberal
(Richard Dalla-Riva)
Greens
(Samantha Dunn)
2018 Labor
(Shaun Leane)
Liberal
(Mary Wooldridge)
Labor
(Sonja Terpstra)
Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)
Transport Matters
(Rod Barton)

Election results

The Liberal Party were defending three seats while the Greens and Labor were defending one each.[4]

2018 Victorian state election: Eastern Metropolitan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 69,756
Labor 1. Shaun Leane (elected 1)
2. Sonja Terpstra (elected 3)
3. Nildhara Gadani
4. Abhimanyu Kumar
5. Barry Terzic
154,716 36.97 +8.30
Liberal 1. Mary Wooldridge (elected 2)
2. Bruce Atkinson (elected 4)
3. Emanuele Cicchiello
4. Grace Roy
5. Shilpa Hegde
151,216 36.13 −9.59
Greens 1. Samantha Dunn
2. Helen Harris
3. Liezl Shnookal
4. Monique Edwards
5. Daniela Tymms
37,650 8.99 −1.49
Liberal Democrats 1. Brenton Ford
2. Marcos Fernandes
17,452 4.17 +2.83
Justice 1. Linda De Rango
2. Kathryn Lavell
10,583 2.53 +2.53
Animal Justice 1. Rosemary Lavin
2. Theresa Weymouth
10,031 2.40 +0.69
Democratic Labour 1. Jeremy Orchard
2. Benjamin Cronshaw
7,097 1.70 −0.59
Shooters, Fishers, Farmers 1. Monique Ruyter
2. Grant Poulton
5,245 1.25 +0.42
Reason 1. Douglas Leitch
2. Glenn Lynch
4,996 1.19 −0.86
Voluntary Euthanasia 1. Dermot Ryan
2. Tara Nipe
3,722 0.89 −0.19
Sustainable Australia 1. Lynnette Saloumi
2. Perrin Wilkins
3,400 0.81 +0.81
Transport Matters 1. Rod Barton (elected 5)
2. Toni Peters
2,590 0.62 +0.62
Health Australia 1. Andrew Hicks
2. Gabrielle Brodie
2,426 0.58 +0.58
Aussie Battler 1. Bryce Larson
2. Clyde Sterry
2,231 0.53 +0.53
Liberty Alliance 1. Indhira Bivieca Aquino
2. Royston Wilding
1,930 0.46 +0.46
Victorian Socialists 1. Norrian Rundle
2. Liam Ward
1,887 0.45 +0.45
Country 1. Mil Erikozu
2. Russel Proud
1184 0.28 −0.14
Hudson for Northern Victoria 1. Shelley van Luenen
2. Deidre Bailey
176 0.04 +0.04
Total formal votes 418,532 96.88 −0.31
Informal votes 13,484 3.12 +0.31
Turnout 432,016 91.68 −2.04

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