Mildura
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Mildura (dark green) in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created1927
MPJade Benham
PartyNational
NamesakeTown of Mildura
Electors44,401 (2018)
Area37,529 km2 (14,490.0 sq mi)
DemographicRural
Electorates around Mildura:
South Australia New South Wales New South Wales
South Australia Mildura Murray Plains
South Australia Lowan Ripon

Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria and sits within the Northern Victoria electorate.[1] It is a 37,529 km2 rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale.

Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of Labor control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the Liberal Party, with journalist Craig Bildstien winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent Russell Savage. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide.

Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party.

Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.

Members for Mildura

Member Party Term
  Albert Allnutt Country Progressive 1927–1930
  Country 1930–1945
  Independent 1945
  Louis Garlick Labor 1945–1947
  Nathaniel Barclay Country 1947–1952
  Alan Lind Labor 1952–1955
  Nathaniel Barclay Country 1955–1962
  Milton Whiting Country 1962–1975
  National Country 1975–1982
  National 1982–1988
  Craig Bildstien Liberal 1988–1996
  Russell Savage Independent 1996–2006
  Peter Crisp National 2006–2018
  Ali Cupper Independent 2018–2022
  Jade Benham National 2022–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Mildura
2022 Victorian state election: Mildura[2][3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ali Cupper 12,913 33.9 +2.9
National Jade Benham 9,868 25.9 −11.4
Liberal Paul Matheson 7,291 19.1 +16.1
Labor Stella Zigouras 2,483 6.5 −11.1
Independent Glenn Milne 1,716 4.5 +4.5
Ind. (Australia One) Sonia Brymer 1,080 2.8 +2.8
Greens Katie Clements 894 2.3 −1.4
Democratic Labour Felicity Sharpe 586 1.5 +1.4
Family First Brad Stratton 560 1.5 +1.5
Freedom Philippe John Brougham 416 1.1 +1.1
Animal Justice Angylina Zayn 333 0.9 +0.8
Total formal votes 38,140 92.5 −2.3
Informal votes 3,096 7.5 +2.3
Turnout 41,236 86.0 -1.9
Notional two-party-preferred count
National Jade Benham 24,454 64.1 +8.0
Labor Stella Zigouras 13,686 35.9 -8.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
National Jade Benham 19,520 51.2 +0.9
Independent Ali Cupper 18,620 48.8 −0.9
National gain from Independent Swing +0.9

References

  1. ^ "Parliament of Victoria". Parliament of Victoria – electorates. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  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. ^ Mildura District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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