The electoral district of Wendouree is an electoral district of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne.
The presidin ...
in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the
2014 state election.
It largely covers the area of the abolished district of
Ballarat West, covering north, southwest and west suburbs of
Ballarat
Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.
Within months of Vi ...
, including
Wendouree,
Alfredton,
Delacombe,
Redan
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The redan developed from the lunette, ...
,
Ballarat North,
Invermay,
Black Hill and
Brown Hill, as well as much of the CBD. The south suburb of
Sebastopol
Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...
was moved to the adjoining district of
Buninyong
Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong.
Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, ...
.
The abolished seat of Ballarat West was held by
Labor
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* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
MP
Sharon Knight. While the redistribution made Wendouree notionally Liberal-held, Knight won the new seat with a swing to Labor.
In the 2021 boundary redistribution, Wendouree gained the suburb of
Sebastopol
Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...
while losing the suburbs of
Brown Hill and
Ballarat East
Ballarat East is a suburb of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. From 1857 until 1921 the suburb had its own council (see below). The suburb covers a large area east of the city centre. It is the oldest urban area in Ballarat and was the site of ...
, with the new boundaries being based on the
Western Freeway with the
district of Ripon and the
Yarrowee River with the
district of Eureka.
Members
Election results
External links
District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission
References
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Wendouree, Electoral district of
Ballarat