When is victorian state election

East West Link issues continue to run Statistics on service delivery a perennial election issue. Political donations Political recognition factors.

Recriminations The Liberal leadership. On 29 November , over 3. He was also a minister in the Kennett Government between and ; this included a day term as Treasurer. The Legislative Assembly has a fixed four-year term with elections for both the Assembly and the Legislative Council held on the last Saturday in November every four years.

Victoria uses a preferential ballot in single-member seats for the Legislative Assembly, similar to federal House of Representatives voting, and the single transferable vote in multi-member seats for the proportionally represented Legislative Council. Below the line voting uses optional preferential voting, and voters who vote below the line must number at least five preferences.

On 17 October , the Electoral Boundaries Commission of Victoria released the final electoral boundaries for Victoria that would apply at the State election, scheduled for 29 November Fifteen of the 88 electoral districts were technically replaced in the redistribution—but ten were effectively only name changes, leaving five seats that were abolished and replaced with new seats. One Liberal seat, Doncaster, was abolished in Melbourne's east and two National seats in country Victoria Rodney and Swan Hill were abolished and replaced with one new notionally Nationals seat of Murray Plains.

Two notionally Labor-held seats, Sunbury and Werribee, were created in Melbourne's western suburbs. Major boundary changes also resulted in five previously Labor-held seats Bellarine, Monbulk, Ripon, Yan Yean, and Wendouree, which was renamed from Ballarat West becoming notionally Liberal-held.

In terms of swing, under the old boundaries Labor needed a uniform swing of 1. This is despite the fact that Labor lost a net five seats in the redistribution, as the redistribution increased the number of marginal Liberal seats.

The fraught electoral situation in Victoria was a legacy of the narrow Coalition win in the November election. Crikey election analyst William Bowe stated of the Coalition:. By , the controversy involving Liberal-turned-independent MP for Frankston Geoff Shaw had become a major issue within the Parliament, leading to the resignation of Ted Baillieu as party leader and Premier, and his replacement by Denis Napthine. Later, Smith declared that he would vote with Labor on any motion to find Shaw in contempt of the Parliament.

In response, Shaw declared he would vote with Labor on any no-confidence motion in the Napthine government. On 11 June , the Victorian Parliament voted to suspend, not expel, Shaw from sitting in Parliament until September. This was due to misuse of entitlements—Shaw had been using his parliamentary car to pursue business activities.

If a much more serious breach was found in future, what higher penalty would be left for parliament to impose? Napthine has a profound responsibility to demonstrate that he respects the parliament, and to pause and reflect on the punishment for comments about the apology before leaping to another highly questionable expulsion.

A fortnight later, Shaw again courted controversy when reports emerged that he was expected to join UK climate sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton at a campaign meeting for the hard-right Christian party Rise Up Australia. Even putting aside the controversy surrounding Shaw, the margin for the southern Melbourne seat was reduced to 0. Law and order issues were an early pre-campaign topic, with the Government announcing tougher sentences for attacks on police and emergency workers. The controversial Voluntary Euthanasia Party, led by Dr Phillip Nitschke, planned to contest all upper house seats and some Assembly seats.

As political editor for The Age , Michael Gordon, put it:. Based on preferences at the last election, the poll had Labor in front on two-party terms, Based on how those polled said they would allocate preferences, it was even more dire for the Liberals: to Labor.

Public transport will be the first casualty of Minister Guy's go-ahead for East-West, as the tollway will be a disastrous drain on the public purse If the Napthine Government cared what people think, it would defer signing contracts until after an assessment of the revised design's full impact. Labor must now commit to tearing up any contracts if they win majority government in November.

The Victorian Government said it intended to sign all the relevant contracts before the election. On 9 September , an adviser to groups opposed to the project, Andrew Herington, claimed that key promises had been broken, namely:.

By refusing to have Infrastructure Australia undertake independent assessments of business cases the government is admitting the highly politicised way in which public funds are being allocated. The issue was pursued in a later debate where Labor attacked the payment of funds without any proof of value for money.

Previously the Abbott government had undertaken to the Senate estimates committee that no funds would be paid for either stage of the East West Link until full business cases were provided. The business case for stage 2 of East West Link, now called the Western Section, has not even been written.

None of the preliminary steps required to start the planning approvals have commenced for the Western Section, making any construction next year an impossibility. The only action taken to date has been the appointment of Ernst and Young in late August as business advisers. The northern Victorian country seat of Euroa was created after the redistribution of electoral boundaries in On 7 August the Liberal Party endorsed Tony Schneider as their candidate for the newly-formed country seat, despite claims from the Nationals that doing so would be in breach of a long-standing Coalition agreement between the parties.

Those results, if replicated at the election, would give Labor a seat majority in the Legislative Assembly. But the unwelcome surprise for many Liberals was the decision by the highly-regarded former Premier Ted Baillieu to quit politics. The Herald Sun reported that:. Dr Napthine led a chorus of former colleagues praising Mr Baillieu. But privately the decision to walk away three months before the poll was met with widespread anger across the Liberal Party. Former premier Jeff Kennett spoke for many who labelled it a selfish act.

With the opinion polls pointing to a Labor victory, the Coalition seemed set to lose as many as 15 seats. Mid-way through September it emerged that an inner-city councillor, Cam Nation—who was also a former Liberal Party candidate and who, as a councillor, had not been a critic of the East West Link—helped register a new micro-party, the No East West Link Party, to oppose the Link.

Labor tacitly opposed the East West road project since its inception, but was conflicted. But what would people in the marginal eastern seats think? Since the election loss, Labor was nervous about misreading their mood.

A frequent target of derision were billboards proclaiming support for various social issues on roads exiting the city. Mr Reed also warned that the apparent boost to independent candidates was probably an example of voters being unable to decide whom they would vote for this far from an election. Wearing a mask and staying within travel limits had the highest adherence rate while one in five Victorians admitted they had sometimes failed to check in with a QR code.

Sixty-three per cent of those surveyed backed the policy, which will force about 1. On Wednesday, Mr Andrews ruled out having unvaccinated tennis stars playing in the Open, insisting the state government would not apply for any exemptions for players who refused to be immunised. The survey compiled responses from voters over two months.

Stay across the most crucial developments related to the pandemic with the Coronavirus Update. Sign up for the weekly newsletter. Voters swing against Andrews but Labor in election-winning position. Please try again later. The Library has published several guides to locating newspapers and articles in newspapers. For quick online access to news reports of Victorian elections prior to , go to the Trove newspaper database using the keywords victorian elections and refine the date range in the margin to the left of the results list.

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