Electoral district of Richmond (Victoria)




































Richmond
Victoria—Legislative Assembly

VIC Richmond District 2014.png
Location of Richmond (dark green) in Greater Melbourne

State Victoria
Created 1856
MP Richard Wynne
Party Labor Party
Electors 54,680 (2018)
Area 14 km2 (5.4 sq mi)
Demographic Inner metropolitan

Richmond is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is currently a 14 km² electorate in the inner east of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Richmond, Cremorne, Burnley, Abbotsford, Collingwood, Clifton Hill, North Fitzroy and Fitzroy. Historically a very safe seat for the Labor Party, Richmond has in recent elections become increasingly marginal against the Greens, who narrowly failed to win it at the 2014 Victorian State election.




Contents






  • 1 History


    • 1.1 Historical maps




  • 2 Members for Richmond


  • 3 Election results


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





History


Richmond is one of only three electorates (along with Brighton and Williamstown) to have been contested at every election since 1856.[1] It was initially a two-member electorate, but was changed to return only a single member in the redistribution of 1904 when several new districts were created including Abbotsford.[1] It covers a series of traditionally working-class, industrial suburbs, and has been continuously held by the Labor Party with the exception of only one term since 1904. The brief exception occurred amidst the famous Labor split of 1955, when the incumbent Labor member, Frank Scully, joined six other Catholic MPs in breaking away to found the Democratic Labor Party. Scully, as the party's leader, was the only MP to hold his seat at the next election, but was defeated in 1958 by Bill Towers, previously the member for the abolished seat of Collingwood.


Though a traditionally safe Labor seat, it has become progressively marginal in recent years due to increasing support for the Greens in the area. This first occurred at the 2002 state election, when union organiser Gemma Pinnell nearly won the seat on Liberal preferences, taking 47 per cent of the two-party preferred vote. The Green surge was seen as a reaction to the conservative policies of the then federal Labor leader, Kim Beazley, by the generally progressive inner city constituency. Labor polled slightly better in the 2006 state election, taking 54% of the two-party preferred against Greens candidate and local councillor Gurm Sekhon. It remains a marginal seat, however, and was strongly contested by Greens candidate, Kathleen Maltzahn, at the state elections in 2010 and 2014.


The current member is the Labor Party's Richard Wynne, who served as the state Minister for Housing and Minister for Local Government in the Bracks and Brumby governments from 2006 to 2010, and is the current Minister for Planning in the Andrews government. Wynne gained the seat in 1999 after the former Labor member, Demetri Dollis, was disendorsed for extended absence overseas.



Historical maps




Members for Richmond








































































































































































1856–1904, 2 members
Member 1 Party Term Member 2 Party Term
 

George Evans
Unaligned
Nov. 1856 – Aug. 1859
 

Daniel Campbell
Unaligned
Nov. 1856 – Aug. 1859
 

James Francis
Unaligned
Oct. 1859 – Nov. 1874
 

Alfred Woolley
Unaligned
Oct. 1859 – July 1861
 

Thomas Lambert
Unaligned
Aug. 1861 – July 1864
 

Archibald Wardrop
Unaligned
Nov. 1864 – July? 1866
 

Ambrose Kyte
Unaligned
Jan. 1867[b] – Dec. 1867
 

James Harcourt
Unaligned
June 1868 – June 1871
 

Louis Smith
Unaligned
Apr. 1871 – Mar. 1874
 

Joseph Bosisto
Unaligned
Dec. 1874[b] – Mar. 1889
 

Robert Inglis
Unaligned
May 1874 – Apr. 1877
 

Louis Smith
Unaligned
May 1877 – Feb. 1880
 

William Walker
Unaligned
May 1880 – June 1880
 

Louis Smith
Unaligned
July 1880 – Feb. 1883
 

Charles Smith
Unaligned
Feb. 1883 – Mar. 1889
 

George Bennett
Unaligned
Apr. 1889 – Sep. 1908
 

William Trenwith
Labour
Apr. 1889 – Nov. 1903
 

George Roberts
Labour
Dec. 1903[b] – May. 1904
1904–present, 1 member
 

Ted Cotter

Labor
Oct. 1908[b] – Oct. 1945
 

Stan Keon

Labor
Nov. 1945 – Oct. 1949
 

Frank Scully

Labor
Dec. 1949[b] – May 1955
 

Democratic Labor
June 1955 – May 1958
 

Bill Towers

Labor
May 1958 – Mar. 1962
 

Clyde Holding

Labor
May 1962[b] – Nov. 1977
 

Theo Sidiropoulos

Labor
Dec. 1977[b] – Aug. 1988
 

Demetri Dollis

Labor
Oct. 1988 – Sep. 1999
 

Richard Wynne

Labor
Sep. 1999 – present

b = by-election



Election results

























































































































2018 Victorian state election: Richmond[3]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


Labor

Richard Wynne
19,705
44.39
+11.10


Greens

Kathleen Maltzahn
15,197
34.23
+2.77


Reason
Judy Ryan
2,916
6.57
+3.24


Independent
Kevin Quoc Tran
2,698
6.08
+6.08


Independent
Herschel Landes
1,340
3.02
+3.02


Animal Justice
Craig Kealy
1,268
2.86
+1.41


Independent
Emma Manning
811
1.83
+1.83


Independent
Adrian Whitehead
459
1.03
+1.03
Total formal votes
44,394
94.10
−2.18
Informal votes
2,783
5.90
+2.18

Turnout
47,177
86.28
−2.93

Two-candidate-preferred result


Labor

Richard Wynne
24,620
55.46
+3.60


Greens

Kathleen Maltzahn
19,774
44.54
−3.60


Labor hold

Swing
+3.60



References





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  2. ^ "Central Province and Electoral Districts of Melbourne, St Kilda, Collingwood, South Melbourne, Richmond and Williamstown" (map). State Library of Victoria. 27 November 1855. Retrieved 12 May 2013.


  3. ^ State Election 2018: Richmond District, VEC.




External links


  • Richmond District - Victorian Electoral Commission


Coordinates: 37°48′45″S 144°59′40″E / 37.81250°S 144.99444°E / -37.81250; 144.99444







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