Electoral district of Bellarine

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]

Bellarine Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Bellarine (dark green) in Victoria
State	Victoria
Dates current	1967–1976 1985–present
MP	Alison Marchant
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Bellarine Peninsula
Electors	55,022 (2022)
Area	356 km^2 (137.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Urbanised 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 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)
Member		Party	Term
	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

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Bellarine

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.

External links

• Electorate profile: Bellarine District, Victorian Electoral Commission