Electoral district of Albert Park

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The Electoral district of Albert Park is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the inner city suburbs of South Melbourne, Albert Park, Port Melbourne and St Kilda. It is was first proclaimed in 1889.

Albert Park has been held continuously by the Labor Party since the 1950 election. It is currently held by a margin of 9.5% after the election in 2006 which is a decline of 3% on the previous election.

John Thwaites was the member from 1992 until his resignation on July 30th 2007, along with Steve Bracks, the member for Williamstown. A by-election was held on 15 September 2007, which resulted in the election of Labor's Martin Foley.

[edit] Members of Albert Park

	Party	Term
John Nimmo	Liberal	1889-1892
John White	Conservative	1892-1902
George Elmslie	Australian Labor Party	1902-1918
Joseph Hannan	Australian Labor Party	1918-1919
Arthur Wallace	Australian Labor Party	1919-1927
Robert Cuthertson	Nationalist Party of Australia	1927-1929
Arthur Wallace	Australian Labor Party	1929-1932
Harold Drew	United Australia Party/Independent	1932-1937
Sir William Haworth	United Australia Party/Liberal Party of Australia	1937-1945
Frank Crean	Australian Labor Party	1945-1947
Roy Schilling	Liberal Party of Australia	1947-1950
Patrick Sutton	Australian Labor Party	1950-1970
Val Doube	Australian Labor Party	1970-1979
Bunna Walsh	Australian Labor Party	1979-1992
John Thwaites	Australian Labor Party	1992-2007
Martin Foley	Australian Labor Party	2007-present