Morwell – Victoria 2026

NAT 4.4%

Incumbent MP
Martin Cameron, since 2022.

• Geography
• History
• Candidates
• Assessment
• 2022 results
• Booth breakdown
• Results maps

Geography
Latrobe Valley. Morwell covers most of the City of Latrobe, specifically the towns of Morwell, Moe and Traralgon. Morwell electoral district also covers the towns of Boolarra, Churchill, Newborough, Tyers and Yallourn North.

History
Morwell has existed as an electoral district since 1955. It was first held by the Liberal Party until 1970, and by the Labor Party from 1970 until the 2006 election, when it was won by the Nationals.

Morwell was first won in 1955 by Liberal candidate Jim Balfour. He became a cabinet minister in 1964, and in 1967 moved to the new seat of Narracan. He held Narracan until his retirement in 1982, serving as a cabinet minister until 1977.

Balfour was succeeded in Morwell by fellow Liberal Archie Tanner. A former amateur boxing champion, Tanner held the seat for one term, losing Morwell in 1970 to the 27-year-old Derek Amos of the ALP.

Amos held the seat until his resignation in 1981, when he was succeeded at a by-election by the 31-year-old Valerie Callister, also of the ALP.

Callister retired in 1988, and was succeeded by Keith Hamilton, who served as Minister for Agriculture and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.

Hamilton retired at the 2002 election, and was succeeded by Brendan Jenkins. He held the seat with a 4.9% margin. In 2002, the Liberal Party polled 19% of the primary vote, with the Nationals polling 12%. The Nationals had been the primary opposition to the ALP in Morwell as recently as 1996, but in 1999 the Liberals had become the main opposition, with the Nationals not contesting the seat.

In 2006, the Nationals polled almost 28% of the primary vote, with the Liberals on 14%. After preferences, the Nationals’ Russell Northe won the seat with a 2.2% margin. Northe was re-elected much more comfortably in 2010, with no Liberal opponent. He narrowly won a third term in 2014.

Northe resigned from the Nationals in 2017 to sit as an independent, and narrowly retained his seat as an independent in 2018.

Northe retired in 2022, and Nationals candidate Martin Cameron won the seat of Morwell.

Candidates

• Martin Cameron (Nationals)
• Rochelle Hine (Greens)
• Tracie Lund (Labor)

Assessment
One Nation will be hoping to take some Nationals territory here.

2022 result

2022 two-party-preferred result

Booth breakdown

Booths have been divided into five areas: Moe, Traralgon, Morwell and the rural remainder split into north and south.

The Nationals won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in three out of five areas, ranging from 56.7% in the south to 59.2% in the north. Labor won 51.1% in Morwell and 53% in Moe.

The Liberal Party came third, with a primary vote ranging from 12.3% in Morwell to 14.4% in Traralgon.

Election results in Morwell at the 2022 Victorian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Nationals and the Liberal Party.

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