Electoral district of Cranbourne

Cranbourne Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Cranbourne (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1992; 33 years ago (1992)
MP	Pauline Richards
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Cranbourne, Victoria
Electors	61,814 (2018)
Area	63 km^2 (24.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer metropolitan
Electorates around Cranbourne: Carrum Narre Warren South Berwick Carrum Cranbourne Hastings Bass Bass

Cranbourne is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.^[1] It is located south-east of Melbourne and includes the suburbs of Botanic Ridge, Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne North, Cranbourne West, Junction Village, as well as parts of Clyde, Clyde North, Cranbourne South, Devon Meadows, Lynbrook and Lyndhurst. It was created prior to the 1992 state election.^[2]

Cranbourne was held by Jude Perera of the Labor Party from 2002 to 2018, with a two-party preferred margin of 2.3% at the 2014 state election. However, from 1992 to the 2002 election the seat was held by the Liberal Party, albeit with different boundaries that were more favourable to the Liberals. Additionally, the Victorian State Liberals suffered a statewide swing against them that saw them lose two-thirds of their seats at the 2002 state election.

Perera re-contested the seat at the 2006 election, and defeated Luke Martin of the Liberal Party. Perera held the seat again in 2010, holding off a challenge from ex-VFL player and brother of Gary Ablett Sr., Geoff Ablett.

In September 2017, Perera announced he will not be running at the November 2018 state election.^[3] He was succeeded by Pauline Richards.

Members for Cranbourne

Member		Party[2]	Term
	Gary Rowe	Liberal	1992–2002
	Jude Perera	Labor	2002–2018
	Pauline Richards	Labor	2018–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Cranbourne

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Cranbourne.[edit]

2022 Victorian state election: Cranbourne^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Pauline Richards	18,853	46.2	−2.5
	Liberal	Jagdeep Singh	11,230	27.5	−6.9
	Greens	Kiran Vempati	2,282	5.6	+1.6
	Family First	Bradley Harvey	2,249	5.5	+5.5
	Democratic Labour	Chris Norton	2,044	5.0	+3.4
	Freedom	Gerardine Frances Hansen	1,790	4.4	+4.4
	Justice	Peter Bernard Philpott	1,126	2.7	−1.9
	Animal Justice	Gwynne Brennan	1,006	2.5	+2.5
	Independent	Ravi Ragupathy	242	0.6	+0.6
Total formal votes			40,822	92.7	+0.4
Informal votes			3,234	7.3	−0.4
Turnout			44,056	86.1	+6.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Pauline Richards	24,073	59.0	−0.3
	Liberal	Jagdeep Singh	16,749	41.0	+0.3
	Labor hold		Swing	−0.3

Graphical summary

Two-party-preferred vote results in Cranbourne

References

1. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
2. "Cranbourne District profile - Victorian Electoral Commission". www.vec.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
3. "Two more Vic MPs to bow out of politics". SBS News. 15 September 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
4. Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
5. VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
6. Cranbourne District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
7. Full preference distributions – 2022 State election, Victorian Electoral Commission. [Retrieved 17 June 2023.

External links

• Electorate profile: Cranbourne District, Victorian Electoral Commission