ALP 12.7%
Incumbent MP
Colin Brooks, since 2006.
Geography
Northern Melbourne. Bundoora covers parts of Banyule, Darebin and Whittlesea councils, and the suburbs of Bundoora, Greensborough, Kingsbury, Macleod and Watsonia and parts of Mill Park and Yallambie.
History
The electoral district of Bundoora was first created prior to the 1976 election, and has always been held by the ALP.
The seat was first won in 1976 by John Cain Jr, son of the former Labor Premier. Cain was elected Labor leader in 1981, and led the party to victory at the 1982 election. Cain won re-election in 1985 and 1988. Cain resigned as Premier in 1990, and retired at the 1992 election.
In 1992, Bundoora was won by the ALP’s Sherryl Garbutt. Garbutt had been elected in the 1989 Greensborough by-election, but that seat was abolished in the redistribution before the 1992 election.
Garbutt was promoted to the Labor frontbench after their 1992 election loss, and became a minister in the Bracks government in 1999.
She retired at the 2006 election. Justin Madden, the former footballer who served as a Minister in the Legislative Council, was originally preselected to fill the seat, with his upper house seat slated to be abolished by Legislative Council reforms. Madden found another upper house seat, and the ALP preselected former Banyule councillor Colin Brooks, who won the seat in 2006.
Colin Brooks has been re-elected four times.
- Colin Brooks (Labor)
- Nina Laitala (Greens)
- Melissa Murphy-Webster (Independent)
- Chris Parr (Liberal)
- Sagar Sanyal (Victorian Socialists)
Assessment
Bundoora is likely safe enough for Labor to hold on. One Nation will likely take a big chunk out of the Liberal vote but will struggle to poll enough to win.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Colin Brooks | Labor | 19,288 | 47.8 | -7.7 |
| Sahil Tomar | Liberal | 11,167 | 27.7 | -1.8 |
| Julie O’Brien | Greens | 5,311 | 13.2 | +5.1 |
| Andrew Lu | Freedom Party | 1,637 | 4.1 | +4.1 |
| Ethan Jones | Family First | 1,294 | 3.2 | +3.2 |
| Bella Holgate | Animal Justice | 1,231 | 3.1 | +0.6 |
| Eric Koelmeyer | Independent | 408 | 1.0 | +1.0 |
| Informal | 2,209 | 5.2 |
2022 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Colin Brooks | Labor | 25,288 | 62.7 | -3.6 |
| Sahil Tomar | Liberal | 15,048 | 37.3 | +3.6 |
Booths have been divided into three areas: east, north and west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, polling 64% in the east and north, and 66% in the west.
The Greens came third, with a primary vote ranging from 13.3% in the north to 15.8% in the east.
| Voter group | GRN prim | ALP 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| East | 15.8 | 64.1 | 6,321 | 15.6 |
| West | 14.0 | 65.8 | 4,378 | 10.8 |
| North | 13.3 | 64.2 | 2,555 | 6.3 |
| Pre-poll | 11.7 | 61.3 | 20,709 | 51.2 |
| Other votes | 15.0 | 63.3 | 6,478 | 16.0 |
Election results in Bundoora at the 2022 Victorian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and the Greens.
This seat was very close in 1992 but like Essendon, Ivanhoe and Eltham this seat has become a lot more Labor friendly. However unlike Essendon, Ivanhoe and Eltham I don’t see this seat falling now even in a 92 style Labor defeat.
This seat is more middle class for the Northern Suburbs and i always feel Bundoora is a transition suburb like Mulgrave where the two Melbourne’s meet. The further East you go it becomes more affluent/Anglo the further west more working class and ethnic.
Yes I agree, especially as you get closer to the Yarra.
I think the boundaries in 1992 were more favourable to the Liberals than they are now. It didn’t extend north of Metropolitan Ring Road back then.
I plan to live here someday. Theres a street named after me.
This seat strikes me as one of Labor’s safest if the current polling dynamics play out, no genuine threat from the right whose vote will be split, but likewise not really a sufficient threat from the left to force Labor out of the count or anything
Labor will hold here but I suspect that there primary vote will take a hit and go to the Greens and a small bit to One Nation. What will be interesting is if Greens will still 3rd place or if One Nation Splits the Liberals vote and pushes the Greens to second.
I dont think ONP wil ldo as well here compared to Yan Yean or Mill Park this more middle ring suburbia and more Middle Class. It tends to be White collar as well