Forest Hill was an
electoral district
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of the
Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of
Victoria
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.
[
] It was a 25 km² electorate located in the eastern suburbs of
Melbourne
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, encompassing the suburbs of
Blackburn South,
Burwood East
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and
Vermont South
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The eastern boundary is Dandenong Creek, which flows from the Dandenong Ranges th ...
and parts of
Forest Hill and
Vermont
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. The electorate had a population of 50,163 as of the 2006 census.
Forest Hill was created as a relatively safe Liberal seat in 1976, and was won by Liberal candidate
John Richardson at the
election that year. Richardson was re-elected at six consecutive elections, surviving some close races against Labor candidates at the height of the
Cain
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government in the 1980s, and held the seat with a comfortable margin of over 7% when he retired at the
2002 election. However, Labor nominated high-profile skier and
Winter Olympics
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medallist
Kirstie Marshall
Kirstie Claire Marshall, OAM (born 21 April 1969) is an Australian aerial skier and Victorian state politician.
Marshall was an ex-gymnast who became an aerial skier at Mount Buller, Victoria. During her skiing career Marshall won over 40 W ...
as their candidate at that election, which combined with a statewide Labor landslide and the loss of Richardson's personal vote saw Labor easily win the seat for the first time. Marshall suffered a sharp swing back to the Liberal Party at the
2006 election, and held the seat by a margin of only 0.78%. At the
2010 election, Marshall was defeated by Liberal candidate
Neil Angus.
The seat was abolished by the Electoral Boundaries Commission ahead of the 2022 election and largely replaced by the electoral district of
Glen Waverley
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.
Members for Forest Hill
Election results
References
External links
Electorate profile: Forest Hill District, Victorian Electoral Commission
1976 establishments in Australia
Former electoral districts of Victoria (state)
2022 disestablishments in Australia
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