Electoral district of Williamstown

Williamstown
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Williamstown; Victoria—Legislative Assembly
	Location of Williamstown (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1856
MP	Melissa Horne
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Williamstown
Electors	45,965 (2022)
Area	51.54 km2 (19.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan

Williamstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 33 km² urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown, Williamstown North, South Kingsville, Seaholme, Altona and Yarraville. The electorate had a population of 54,426 as of the 2006 census.

Williamstown is one of only three electorates (along with Brighton and Richmond) to have been contested at every election since 1856.^[1] It is a very safe seat for the Labor Party, which has held it for all but two terms since 1889 and without interruption since 1904. Notable former members include John Lemmon,^[2] who held the seat for a Victorian record 51 years until his retirement in 1955, and former Premiers Joan Kirner^[3] and Steve Bracks.^[4]

Steve Bracks held the seat from a by-election in 1994 until his surprise resignation on 30 July 2007. A by-election was held on 15 September 2007, resulting in the election of Labor's Wade Noonan.^[5]

The seat is almost entirely within the equally safe federal seat of Gellibrand.

Members for Williamstown

	Party	Term
John Foster	Independent	1856–1857
George Perry	Independent	1857–1859
George Verdon	Liberal	1859–1868
Thomas Mason	Independent	1868–1871
Alfred Clark	Liberal	1871–1887
James Mirams	Liberal	1887–1889
William Carter	Labor	1889–1894
James Styles	Labor	1894–1900
Alexander Ramsay	Commonwealth Liberal	1900–1904
John Lemmon	Labor	1904–1955
Larry Floyd	Labor	1955–1973
Gordon Stirling	Labor	1973–1988
Joan Kirner	Labor	1988–1994
Steve Bracks	Labor	1994–2007
Wade Noonan	Labor	2007–2018
Melissa Horne	Labor	2018–present

Election results

2022 Victorian state election: Williamstown^[6]^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Melissa Horne	16,173	41.5	−8.2
	Liberal	Daria Kellander	10,928	28.0	+7.7
	Greens	Suzette Rodoreda	6,013	15.4	+2.1
	Democratic Labour	Rochelle Fisher	1,632	4.2	+4.2
	Victorian Socialists	Julien Q. Macandili	1,528	3.9	+3.9
	Animal Justice	Patricia Mackevicius	1,049	2.7	+0.5
	Freedom	Alexander Ansalone	976	2.5	+2.5
	Family First	Joshua Mosely	675	1.7	+1.7
Total formal votes			38,974	95.4	+0.3
Informal votes			1,878	4.6	−0.3
Turnout			40,852	88.9	+2.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Melissa Horne	24,726	63.4	−6.5
	Liberal	Daria Kellander	14,248	36.6	+6.5
	Labor hold		Swing	−6.5

Historical maps

Location within Greater Melbourne area, 1859

External links

References

^ "Former Members - Williamstown". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ "John Lemmon". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ "Joan Elizabeth Kirner (OAM, AC)". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ "Stephen Phillip Bracks". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ "The Hon. Wade Noonan". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
^ Williamstown District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.

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[parl-1] "Former Members - Williamstown". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 25 August 2022.

[2] "John Lemmon". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.

[3] "Joan Elizabeth Kirner (OAM, AC)". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.

[4] "Stephen Phillip Bracks". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.

[5] "The Hon. Wade Noonan". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2022.

[Results_of_the_2022_Victorian_state_election_(Legislative_Assembly)_2021_2PP_swings-6] Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.

[Results_of_the_2022_Victorian_state_election_(Legislative_Assembly)_2021_Redistribution-7] VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.

[8] Williamstown District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.

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