Electoral district of Hawthorn

Hawthorn
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Hawthorn; Victoria—Legislative Assembly
	Location of Hawthorn (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1889
MP	John Kennedy
Party	Labor Party
Electors	44,828 (2018)
Area	19 km2 (7.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan
Coordinates	37°50′S 145°03′E / 37.833°S 145.050°ECoordinates: 37°50′S 145°03′E / 37.833°S 145.050°E

The electoral district of Hawthorn is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was first proclaimed in 1888^[1] taking effect at the 1889 elections.

The electorate is located to the east of Melbourne and centres on the suburb of Hawthorn, after which it is named. It also includes parts of Camberwell, Burwood and Glen Iris.

It has usually been a safe seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors, having been held by a number of leaders and senior ministers. With the exception of two occasions when Liberal MPs defected and sat as independents, it has only been held by non-Liberal MPs three times in its history: independent Leslie Hollins from 1940 to 1945, Labor-turned-Labor (Anti-Communist) MP Charles Murphy from 1952 to 1955, and since 2018, when Labor candidate John Kennedy won the seat for the first time in 63 years in a major upset.

Notable former members for Hawthorn include former premiers Sir William McPherson and Ted Baillieu, as well as Walter Jona, a minister in the Hamer government

Members for Hawthorn[]

	Party	Term
	Liberal	1889–1894
Robert Murray Smith	Conservative	1894–1900
Robert Barbour	Liberal	1900–1901
Robert Barbour	Ministerialist	1901–1902
George Swinburne	Ministerialist	1902–1907
	Independent	1907–1911
	Liberal	1911–1913
William Murray McPherson	Liberal	1913–1916
		1916–1917
	Nationalist	1917–1930
John Gray	Nationalist	1930–1931
John Gray	United Australia	1931–1939
Les Tyack	United Australia	1939–1940
Leslie Hollins	Independent	1940–1945
Fred Edmunds	Liberal	1945–1949
Fred Edmunds	Independent	1949–1950
Les Tyack	Liberal	1950–1952
Charles Murphy	Labor	1952–1955
Charles Murphy	Labor (Anti-Communist)	1955
Jim Manson	Liberal	1955–1958
Peter Garrisson	Liberal	1958–1963
Peter Garrisson	Independent	1963–1964
Walter Jona	Liberal	1964–1985
Phil Gude	Liberal	1985–1999
Ted Baillieu	Liberal	1999–2014
John Pesutto	Liberal	2014–2018
John Kennedy	Labor	2018–present

Election results[]

2018 Victorian state election: Hawthorn^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Pesutto	17,231	43.89	−10.60
	Labor	John Kennedy	12,646	32.21	+8.04
	Greens	Nicholas Bieber	7,167	18.26	−3.07
	Sustainable Australia	Sophie Paterson	960	2.45	+2.45
	Animal Justice	Catherine Wright	885	2.25	+2.25
	Independent	Richard Grummet	367	0.93	+0.93
Total formal votes			39,256	96.41	+0.16
Informal votes			1,462	3.59	−0.16
Turnout			40,718	90.83	−2.12
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	John Kennedy	19,793	50.42	+9.01
	Liberal	John Pesutto	19,463	49.58	−9.01
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+9.01

References[]

^ "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888" (PDF). Retrieved 11 March 2014.
^ State Election 2018: Hawthorn District, VEC.

"Re-Member". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 12 March 2014.

External links[]

Electorate profile: Hawthorn District, Victorian Electoral Commission

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[1] "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888" (PDF). Retrieved 11 March 2014.

[2] State Election 2018: Hawthorn District, VEC.

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