Electoral district of Geelong

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The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong. Incomes vary strongly across the seat, and it is often aligned with the governing Party, due to similar demographics to the state at large.

It has been held since 1999 by Ian Trezise for the ALP, who won that election by 16 votes after recounts. The Victorian Parliament was hung at that election, and the results for the seat of Geelong, which took several days to arrive at, had a significant impact on the events which brought the Bracks government to power. At the 2002 election, the seat's margin grew to 8.1%, however neither major party considers is safe, as it is a must win seat to form government.

[edit] Members for Geelong

First incarnation (1856-1859, 4 members)
Member		Party	Term
	Sir Charles Sladen	Unaligned	1856-1857
	Alexander Fyfe	Unaligned	1856-1857
	Charles Read	Unaligned	1856-1858
	John Brooke	Unaligned	1856-1859
	Alexander Thomson	Unaligned	1857-1859
	George Board	Unaligned	1858-1859
	James Harrison	Unaligned	1858-1859
Second incarnation (1877-1889, 3 members)
Member		Party	Term
	Charles Kernot	Unaligned	1877-1880
	Robert de Bruce Johnstone	Unaligned	1877-1881
	Sir Graham Berry	Unaligned	1877-1886
	Charles Andrews Sr.	Unaligned	1880
	Charles Kernot	Unaligned	1880-1882
	George Cunningham	Unaligned	1881-1886
	Joseph Connor	Unaligned	1882-1886
	John Donaghy	Unaligned	1886-1889
	James Munro	Unaligned	1886-1889
	Charles Andrews Sr.	Unaligned	1886-1889
Third incarnation (1889-1904, 2 members)
Member		Party	Term
	James Munro	Unaligned	1889-1892
	Charles Andrews Sr.	Unaligned	1889-1894
	John Rout Hopkins	Unaligned	1892-1894
	H. B. Higgins	Unaligned	1894-1900
	William Gurr	Unaligned	1894-1902
	Charles Andrews Jr.	Liberal	1900-1904
	George Martin	Ministerialist/Independent	1902-1904
Fourth incarnation (1904-1976, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	William Colechin	Labor	1904-1907
	William Gurr	Independent	1907-1908
	William Plain	Australian Labor Party/Nationalist Party of Australia	1908-1917
	Robert Purnell	Nationalist Party of Australia	1917-1920
	William Brownbill	Australian Labor Party	1920-1932
	Edward Austin	United Australia Party	1932-1935
	William Brownbill	Australian Labor Party	1935-1938
	Fanny Brownbill	Australian Labor Party	1938-1948
	Edward Montgomery	Liberal Party of Australia/Liberal Country Party	1948-1950
	James Dunn	Australian Labor Party	1950-1955
	Sir Thomas Maltby	Liberal Country Party	1955-1961
	Hayden Birrell	Liberal Country Party/Liberal Party of Australia	1961-1976
Fifth incarnation (1985—present, 1 member)
Member		Party	Term
	Hayden Shell	Australian Labor Party	1985-1992
	Ann Henderson	Liberal Party of Australia	1992-1999
	Ian Trezise	Australian Labor Party	1999-present