The Division of Aston is an Australian Federal Electoral Division in the

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, located in the eastern suburbs of

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. The suburbs in the division include

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Ferntree Gully Ferntree Gully is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 30 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Ferntree Gully recorded a p ...

, Kilsyth South, Knoxfield,

Rowville Rowville is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Rowville recorded a population of 33,571 at the 2021 census. Rowv ...

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, The Basin,

Wantirna Wantirna is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Wantirna recorded a population of 14,237 at the 2021 census. Its name is ...

and

Wantirna South Wantirna South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Wantirna South recorded a population of 20,754 at the 2021 census. 5 ...

; and parts of

Lysterfield Lysterfield (Boonwurrung: ''Waralk-warrabin'') is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne CBD, located within the City of Knox and the Yarra Ranges Shire local government areas. Lysterfield recorded a pop ...

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Upper Ferntree Gully Upper Ferntree Gully is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 32 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox and Shire of Yarra Ranges local government areas. Upper Ferntree Gully recorded a pop ...

, Ringwood, Heathmont and

Bayswater North Bayswater North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Maroondah local government area. Bayswater North recorded a population of 9,014 at the 2021 census. Bay ...

Geography

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the

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. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. When the division was introduced in 1984, it covered areas in the

City of Knox The City of Knox is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of and in 2020, Knox had a population of 165,147. This municipality is one of only a handful that survived the widespread mu ...

which were previously in the

Division of Deakin The Division of Deakin is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined a ...

and

Division of La Trobe The Division of La Trobe is an Electorates of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. , it is a semi-urban electorate that cove ...

. Between 2018 and 2024, the division was co-extensive with the City of Knox local government area. In 2024, it was expanded northwards to include a portion of the

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south of Canterbury Road and east of EastLink. Since the 2024 redistribution, the division covered all of City of Knox, and southern portions of City of Maroondah.

History

The division was created in 1984 and is named after

Tilly Aston Matilda Ann Aston (11 December 1873 – 1 November 1947), better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the A ...

, a blind writer and teacher who helped found the Library of the Victorian Association of Braille Writers in 1894. A typical " mortgage belt" seat, it was held by the Labor Party until 1990, but from then until 2023 it was held by the Liberal Party. At the

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it was the Liberal Party’s safest seat in metropolitan Melbourne. However, the seat became marginal at that election, with the Liberals experiencing a 11.64% drop in their primary vote and a 7.32% drop in their two-party vote. The very next year, the Australian Labor Party regained the seat from the Liberal Party following the 2023 by-election.

Mary Doyle Mary Judith Jacinta Doyle (born 26 June 1970) is an Australian politician. She has been a Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor member of the Parliament of Australia representing the Division of Aston, Federal Division of Aston sinc ...

was elected as the new Labor member in the by-election. Aston has one of the biggest

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communities in Victoria, with more than 22,500 Chinese residents, or about 14 per cent of the electorate's population.

Members

Election results

References

External links

Division of Aston – Australian Electoral Commission
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aston, Division of Electoral divisions of Australia Electoral divisions of Australia in Victoria Constituencies established in 1984 1984 establishments in Australia City of Knox Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne