Electoral district of Thomastown

Thomastown
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Thomastown; Victoria—Legislative Assembly
	Location of Thomastown (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1985
MP	Bronwyn Halfpenny
Party	Labor Party
Electors	44,619 (2018)
Area	103 km2 (39.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan

The electoral district of Thomastown is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.^[1] It currently includes the suburbs of Lalor and Thomastown, and parts of Fawkner, Reservoir and Wollert, and has been in existence since 1985.

The seat is extremely safe for the Labor Party. At the 2002 election, Labor frontbencher Peter Batchelor won the seat with over 80% of the two-party-preferred vote, making Thomastown the safest seat in the state.

The seat's first member, Beth Gleeson, died whilst in office in December 1989. The resulting February 1990 by-election, held when support for Labor had plummeted as a result of an economic crisis, was nearly won by the Australian Democrats.

Members for Thomastown[]

	Party	Term
Beth Gleeson	Labor	1985–1989
Peter Batchelor	Labor	1990��2010
Bronwyn Halfpenny	Labor	2010–present

Election results[]

2018 Victorian state election: Thomastown^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Bronwyn Halfpenny	21,397	61.69	−5.01
	Liberal	Gurdawar Singh	5,420	15.63	−1.35
	Independent	Nikola Stavreski	1,867	5.38	+5.38
	Independent	Alahna Desiato	1,552	4.47	+4.47
	Greens	Cynthia Smith	1,474	4.25	−0.95
	Victorian Socialists	Kath Larkin	967	2.79	+2.79
	Animal Justice	Tess Nagorka-Tsindos	861	2.48	+2.48
	Independent	Ibrahim Saba	593	1.71	+1.71
	Reason	David Thirkettle-Watts	554	1.60	+1.60
Total formal votes			34,685	87.74	−5.23
Informal votes			4,847	12.26	+5.23
Turnout			39,532	88.60	−3.67
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Bronwyn Halfpenny	26,639	77.19	−1.25
	Liberal	Gurdawar Singh	7,873	22.81	+1.25
	Labor hold		Swing	−1.25