Division of Melbourne

Melbourne
Australian House of Representatives Division
Melbourne; Australian House of Representatives Division
	Division of Melbourne (green) in Victoria
Created	1901
MP	Adam Bandt
Party	Greens
Namesake	Melbourne
Electors	102,881 (2010)
Area	53 km2 (20.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Melbourne is an Australian Electoral Division of Victoria. It was one of the first 75 divisions set up for the first federal election in 1901.^[1] It includes the City of Melbourne and the suburbs of Abbotsford, Ascot Vale, Carlton, Clifton Hill, Colllingwood, Docklands, North Melbourne, West Melbourne, East Melbourne, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Flemington, Kensington, Parkville, Richmond, and parts of Brunswick and Brunswick East.^[1] It was named after the city of Melbourne, which was named in 1838 for Lord Melbourne, the British Prime Minister.^[1]

Members

Arthur Calwell was the Leader of the Opposition. Lindsay Tanner was Minister for Finance and Deregulation in the first Rudd Government.

2022 Australian federal election: Melbourne^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Greens	Adam Bandt	47,883	49.62	+1.58
	Labor	Keir Paterson	24,155	25.03	+3.91
	Liberal	James Damches	14,660	15.19	−6.01
	Victorian Socialists	Colleen Bolger	3,156	3.27	+3.27
	United Australia	Justin Borg	1,709	1.77	+0.60
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Peppard	1,596	1.65	+1.65
	Animal Justice	Bruce Poon	1,316	1.36	−0.68
	Independent	Scott Robson	1,094	1.13	+1.13
	One Nation	Walter Stragan	937	0.97	+0.97
Total formal votes			96,506	96.99	+0.01
Informal votes			2,993	3.01	−0.01
Turnout			99,499	86.98	−2.64
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Labor	Keir Paterson	75,191	77.91	+10.11
	Liberal	James Damches	21,315	22.09	−10.11
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Greens	Adam Bandt	58,050	60.15	−12.44
	Labor	Keir Paterson	38,456	39.85	+39.85
	Greens hold		Swing	–12.44

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Profile of the electoral division of Melbourne". Australian Electoral Commission. 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
↑ Melbourne, VIC, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.