ALP 15.8%
Incumbent MP
Bronwyn Halfpenny, since 2010.
Geography
Northern Melbourne. Thomastown covers the south-western corner of Whittlesea council, including the suburbs of Lalor and Thomastown, and parts of Epping.
History
Thomastown was first created for the 1985 election, and has always been held by the ALP.
The seat was first won in 1985 by the ALP’s Beth Gleeson. She held the seat until her death in 1989.
The 1990 Thomastown by-election was won by the ALP’s Peter Batchelor, fighting off a fierce challenge from the Australian Democrats.
Batchelor served as Secretary of the Victorian ALP before he was elected to Parliament. Batchelor held the seat from 1990 to 2010.
Labor candidate Bronwyn Halfpenny won Thomastown in 2010, and she has been re-elected three times.
- Bronwyn Halfpenny (Labor)
- Priya Reddy (Victorian Socialists)
Assessment
One Nation will hope to put in a good show here but Labor has a very large margin.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Bronwyn Halfpenny | Labor | 19,396 | 51.8 | -10.1 |
| Gurdawar Singh | Liberal | 9,003 | 24.0 | +8.8 |
| Kelly Cvetkova | Victorian Socialists | 2,873 | 7.7 | +4.8 |
| Colleen McNamara | Family First | 2,571 | 6.9 | +6.9 |
| Matt Sinapi | Greens | 2,557 | 6.8 | +2.7 |
| Evie Levens | Animal Justice | 1,076 | 2.9 | +0.4 |
| Informal | 3,104 | 7.6 |
2022 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Bronwyn Halfpenny | Labor | 24,628 | 65.8 | -11.6 |
| Gurdawar Singh | Liberal | 12,801 | 34.2 | +11.6 |
Booths have been divided into three areas: north, south-east and south-west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 64.8% in the south-west to 66.7% in the south-east.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| South-West | 64.8 | 5,601 | 15.0 |
| North | 66.5 | 4,438 | 11.9 |
| South-East | 66.7 | 3,696 | 9.9 |
| Pre-poll | 66.3 | 18,049 | 48.3 |
| Other votes | 65.4 | 5,585 | 14.9 |
Election results in Thomastown at the 2022 Victorian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor and the Liberal Party.
The swing here was quite violent last time, will be interesting to see if Labor rebounds or continues to go backwards?
@ SpaceFish my instinct is that it will be one of the few seats to swing to Labor on TPP i expect Victorian Socialists will surge and the Cooker vote will decrease.
Remember in 1992, Broadmeadows and Thomastown were among few seats to swing to Labor.
@Nimalan,
Labor suffered a swing against them here in 2025. Also a lot of the seats in western/northern Melbourne either went backwards or barely moved. I’m not entirely convinced that voters in this part of Melbourne have forgiven the state government/federal and cost of living is really hurting this part of Melbourne more than the other side.
Even if seats like this, Mill Park, Broadmeadows etc don’t swing back to the ALP the margins are still massive and won’t be an issue for Labor. Victorian Liberals won’t win here regardless if they go full right or alt-right under whoever is leading them.
@ Spacefish
gellibrand and Fraser had big swings to Labor including in poor suburbs like Altona Meadows Laverton and St Albans
In Scullin there was a slight swing to Libs in TPP terms but poorer western part which is this seat had small swings to Labor in TPP I think what will happen is that Labor primary vote will not increase but there will be a surge to Victorian Socialists and Greens especially among Muslims and a decrease in the Cooker vote. if you look at Calwell at a federal level there was actually a notional TPP swing among the poorer booths
I’m interested about the Victorian Socialists’s popularity. Their candidate came third on primary votes in 2022. At the 2025 federal election in Scullin, they came second on primary votes (even beating the Liberals and Greens) at several booths including in Thomastown and Epping.
In 2022, in seats like Thomastown, Mill Park and other seats in northern and western Melbourne, the anti-lockdown micro-party vote will subside (DLP, Freedom, Angry Victorians etc.). The Greens, Vic Socialists, One Nation and Family First will dominate the non-major party vote.