The electoral district of Carrum is an electoral district of the

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. It lies in the south eastern suburbs of

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, covering

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, Bonbeach,

Carrum Carrum is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston Local Government Areas of Victoria, local government ar ...

Carrum Downs Carrum Downs is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Frankston local government area. Carrum Downs recorded a population of 21,976 at the 2021 ce ...

Patterson Lakes Patterson Lakes is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Patterson Lakes recorded a population of 7,793 at the 2021 census ...

, Sandhurst, Seaford and

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. The seat was created in 1976 and traditionally has had a working class character and has been safe for the Labor Party. However, since the 1990s the area has been

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and the seat was won by the

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against the trend at the 1996 election. However, the seat was narrowly recovered by Labor due to the Anti-Kennett swing in 1999 and the 'Brackslide' of 2002 reverted the seat to its original safe Labor status. The 2013 redistribution significantly reshaped the seat, with the seat losing Aspendale, Edithvale and parts of Chelsea to the seat of

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and gaining

and Sandhurst from the seat of Cranbourne. In the

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, Labor MP

Sonya Kilkenny Sonya Kilkenny (born 15 May 1969) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the Electoral district of Carrum. Kilkenny first entered parliament at th ...

defeated the Liberal incumbent to regain the seat.

Members for Carrum

Election results

Graphical summary

References

External links

Electorate profile: Carrum District, Victorian Electoral Commission
1976 establishments in Australia Electoral districts of Victoria (Australia) City of Kingston (Victoria) City of Greater Dandenong Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub