| Dandenong Victoria—Legislative Assembly |
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|---|---|
| State or territory: | Victoria |
| Created: | 1904 |
| MP: | John Pandazopoulos |
| Party: | Australian Labor Party |
| Electors: | 35,535 (2010) |
| Area: | 35 km² (14 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Outer Metropolitan |
The Electoral district of Dandenong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was first proclaimed in 1904 when the district of Dandenong and Berwick was abolished.
The seat is currently based around Dandenong and its surrounding suburbs, although in previous years the seat has had a more rural character. Traditionally it has been a key marginal seat, but since the 1970s demographic changes have made it a safe Labor Party seat. However, during the Kennett government the seat became very marginal again, and at the 1999 election the Liberals put a substantial effort into an ultimately unsuccessful attempt at winning the seat. The neglect of their own marginal seats was seen as one of the reasons why the Coalition narrowly lost government at that election. [1], [2]
The current member is John Pandazopoulos, who has a 13.9% margin. While still a safe seat, the ALP margin has been steadily declining since reaching its high point at the 2002 election. Minor parties such as Greens, DLP and Family First captured 20% of the vote at the 2010 election.
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| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Keast | Conservative | 1904–1917 | |
| Comm Liberal | |||
| Nationalist | |||
| Frank Groves | Nationalist | 1917–1929 | |
| Herbert Cremean | Labor | 1929–1932 | |
| Frank Groves | United Australia | 1932–1937 | |
| Frank Field | United Australia | 1937–1947 | |
| William Dawnay-Mould | Liberal | 1947–1952 | |
| Electoral Reform League | |||
| Les Coates | Labor | 1952–1955 | |
| Ray Wiltshire | Liberal | 1955–1958 | |
| Leonard Reid | Liberal | 1958–1969 | |
| Alan Lind | Labor | 1969–1979 | |
| Rob Jolly | Labor | 1979–1985 | |
| Terry Norris | Labor | 1985–1992 | |
| John Pandazopoulos | Labor | 1992–present | |
| Victorian state election, 2010: Dandenong | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | John Pandazopoulos | 14,934 | 50.53 | -8.00 | |
| Liberal | Dale Key | 8,658 | 29.29 | +4.38 | |
| Greens | Matthew Kirwan | 2,591 | 8.77 | +0.50 | |
| Democratic Labor | Christopher Blackburn | 2,037 | 6.89 | +6.89 | |
| Family First | Damien Latcham | 1,337 | 4.52 | -3.77 | |
| Total formal votes | 29,557 | 92.57 | -0.50 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,373 | 7.43 | +0.50 | ||
| Turnout | 31,930 | 89.86 | -1.29 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | John Pandazopoulos | 18,887 | 63.87 | -4.80 | |
| Liberal | Dale Key | 10,686 | 36.13 | +4.80 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -4.80 | |||