The electoral district of Malvern is an
electorate
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of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
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.
It is named for the suburb of
Malvern
Malvern or Malverne may refer to:
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* Malvern, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
* Malvern, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
* City of Malvern, a former local government area near Melbourne
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and also includes
Malvern East
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,
Armadale,
Kooyong and parts of
Glen Iris Glen Iris may refer to:
*Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia
*Glen Iris, Western Australia
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and
Toorak.
The electorate has been held by the
Liberal Party
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(or its predecessor) since its creation in 1945, and for most of that time has been regarded as one of the Liberal Party's safest seats in Melbourne. In all but one election, the Liberals have won enough votes on the first count to win the seat outright. As a measure of how safe Malvern is for the Liberals, Opposition Leader
Robert Doyle
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easily retained the seat with 60.2 percent of the two-party vote even as
Labor
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won its biggest majority ever at the state level.
The current member is
Michael O'Brien, who succeeded Doyle at the
2006 Victorian election and served as
Treasurer
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in the
Napthine government. At the
2014 State election, O'Brien's margin over Labor was 16.3%, down from 20.6%, but his margin was reduced to 6.1% at the
2018 State election. On 6 December 2018 O’Brien was elected leader of the Liberal Party and became Opposition Leader, a role he served until September 2021.
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The seat's best-known member was Lindsay Thompson
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, who served as Premier of Victoria
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from 1981 to 1982 and served as a minister without interruption from 1958 to 1982 – one of the longest-serving state ministers in Australian history.
Members for Malvern
:Oldham represented Boroondara
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1933–1945[
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Election results
References
External links
Malvern District Profile – Victorian Electoral Commission
Electoral districts of Victoria (Australia)
1945 establishments in Australia
City of Stonnington
Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne
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