Electoral district of Lowan

Lowan
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
State or territory: Victoria
Created: 1889, 1955, 2002
Abolished: 1945, 1992
MP: Hugh Delahunty
Party: National Party of Australia
Electors: 38,478 (2010)
Area: 34,540 km² (13,336 sq mi)
Demographic: Rural

The Electoral district of Lowan is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Western Victoria Region of the Legislative Council .

Lowan includes the country towns of Casterton, Coleraine, Dartmoor, Dimboola, Hamilton, Horsham, Jeparit, Kaniva, Nhill and Rainbow. It is the largest District in Victoria, and stretches from the Big Desert to within ten kilometres of the coast. It includes the wheat growing area of the Wimmera and the wool growing areas of the Western District. Natural features include the Grampians and Mount Arapiles. The current seat was established in 2002 although several previous seats held the same name.

The current member is the National Party's Hugh Delahunty, who held the seat of Wimmera for one term from 1999, and after the redistribution has held Lowan since 2002.

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Members for Lowan

First incarnation (1889–1945)
Member Party Term
  Richard Baker Unaligned 1889–1894
  Sir William Irvine Unaligned 1894–1906
  Robert Stanley Ministerialist 1906–1911
  Comm Liberal
  James Menzies Comm Liberal 1911–1920
  Nationalist
  Marcus Wettenhall Farmers Union 1920–1935
  Country
  George Lamb Country 1935–1943
  Johan Mibus Country 1944–1945
  Liberal Country
Second incarnation (1955–1992)
Member Party Term
  Johan Mibus Liberal Country 1955–1964
  Country
  Jim McCabe Liberal 1964–1967
  Ray Buckley Country 1967–1970
  Jim McCabe Liberal 1970–1979
  Bill McGrath National Country 1979–1982
  National 1982–1992
Third incarnation (2002–present)
Member Party Term
  Hugh Delahunty National 2002–present

Election results

Victorian state election, 2010: Lowan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Hugh Delahunty 23,702 67.42 +19.75
Labor Mandy Kirsopp 7,783 22.14 -0.23
Greens Ben Wilkie 1,966 5.59 +1.34
Family First Randall Reimer 1,704 4.85 +1.50
Total formal votes 35,155 96.27 -0.15
Informal votes 1,363 3.73 +0.15
Turnout 36,518 94.91 +0.17
Two-candidate preferred result
National Hugh Delahunty 25,337 72.08 0.00
Labor Mandy Kirsopp 9,812 27.92 0.00
National hold Swing 0.00

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