Broadmeadows – Victoria 2010

ALP 31.9%

Incumbent MP
John Brumby, since 1993.

Geography
Northern Melbourne. Broadmeadows is mostly contained within Hume council, along with a small part of Moreland council, covering the suburbs of
Broadmeadows, Campbellfield, Coolaroo and Dallas and parts of Fawkner, Glenroy, Hadfield, Roxburgh Park, Somerton and Westmeadows.

History
Broadmeadows was first created at the 1955 election, and has been held by the ALP continuously since 1962.

The seat was first won in 1955 by the Liberal Party’s Harry Kane. He held the seat until his death in 1962.

 

The ensuing by-election was won by the ALP’s  John Wilton. Wilton held the seat from 1962 until his retirement at the 1985 election.

In 1985, sitting Member for Glenroy Jack Culpin moved to Broadmeadows after his previous district was abolished. Culpin held the seat for one term.

In 1988, Jim Kennan moved from the Thomastown Legislative Council seat to Broadmeadows. He became Deputy Premier in 1990 and became Leader of the Opposition following the ALP’s election defeat in 1992.

Kennan resigned from Parliament in June 1993. The ensuing by-election was won by John Brumby, who had been Legislative Council member for Doutta Galla since another by-election in March the same year.

Brumby had been elected Leader of the Victorian ALP following Kennan’s resignation before his move to the Legislative Assembly. Brumby served as Labor leader until March 1999, when he stepped down in favour of Steve Bracks.

Brumby served as a senior minister in the Bracks government, serving as Assistant Treasurer (with Bracks himself as Treasurer) until he was appointed Treasurer in 2000. In 2007, Brumby was elected Labor leader and Premier following Steve Bracks’ retirement.

Candidates

Political situation
Broadmeadows is the ALP’s safest seat in Victoria.

2006 result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
John Brumby ALP 20,600 67.64 -7.86
Daniel Parsons LIB 3,928 12.90 -2.90
Emily Taylor GRN 2,010 6.60 +2.10
Gerard Hines FF 1,444 4.74 +4.74
Sleiman Yohanna CEC 1,381 4.53 +1.74
Marlene Ebejer PP 632 2.08 +2.08
Will Marshall IND 459 1.51 +1.51

2006 two-candidate-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
John Brumby ALP 24,878 81.89 +1.11
Daniel Parsons LIB 5,500 18.11 -1.11

Booth breakdown
The eighteen booths in Broadmeadows are divided into three areas: Roxburgh Park in the north, Broadmeadows in the centre and Glenroy in the south.

The ALP polled most strongly in the north and least strongly in the south, although they won massive majorities in all areas.

 

Polling booths in Broadmeadows at the 2006 state election. Glenroy in yellow, Broadmeadows in blue, Roxburgh Park in green.

 

 

Voter group GRN % ALP 2CP % Total votes % of votes
Roxburgh Park 6.79 84.93 10,405 34.25
Broadmeadows 5.48 82.63 10,345 34.08
Glenroy 7.91 78.71 5,426 17.86
Other votes 7.20 76.68 4,193 13.80
Two-party-preferred votes in Broadmeadows at the 2006 state election.

5 COMMENTS

  1. Here’s a result you don’t see too often: the CEC not coming last with a pathetic <0.5% of the vote. Seems to happen a bit in northern Melbourne, state and federal. The combined lunatic fringe almost beat the Libs… 12.9% must've been their lowest vote in the state or close to it.

    Small quibble I've noticed in a few places: the swing for candidates / parties who didn't contest the previous election should be equal to their primary vote, not zero. (Example here: Family First, People Power and that independent.)

  2. I have to agree with that. I think that’s quite misleading to show the swing as zero for parties which didn’t previously contest.

  3. Other candidates here so far are Samli Ozturk for the Liberals, Jaime De Loma-Osorio for the Greens, Kevin Butler for the DLP, and Peter Byrne for the unregistered Socialist Equality Party.

  4. And in ballot paper order the candidates are:

    John Brumby – Labor
    Jaime De Loma-Osorio – Greens
    Peter Byrne –
    Samli Ozturk – Liberal
    Kevin Butler – DLP

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