| Williamstown Victoria—Legislative Assembly |
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|---|---|
| State or territory: | Victoria |
| Created: | 1856 |
| MP: | Wade Noonan |
| Party: | Australian Labor Party |
| Electors: | 38,966 (2010) |
| Area: | 33 km² (13 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Inner metropolitan |
Williamstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 33 km² urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown and Yarraville. The electorate had a population of 54,426 as of the 2006 census.
Williamstown was first proclaimed in 1856 and it is a very safe seat for the Australian Labor Party who have held it uninterrupted for over a century. Notable former members include John Lemmon, who held the seat for a Victorian record 51 years until his retirement in 1955, and former Premiers Joan Kirner and Steve Bracks. [1]
Steve Bracks held the seat from a by-election in 1994 until his surprise resignation on 30 July 2007. A by-election was held on 15 September 2007, resulting in the election of Labor's Wade Noonan.
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Foster | Unaffiliated | 1856–1857 | |
| George Perry | Unaffiliated | 1857–1859 | |
| George Frederic Verdon | Liberal | 1859–1868 | |
| Thomas Mason | Unaffiliated | 1868–1871 | |
| Alfred Clark | Liberal | 1871–1887 | |
| James Mirams | Liberal | 1887–1889 | |
| William Carter | Labor | 1889–1894 | |
| James Styles | Labor | 1894–1900 | |
| Alexander Ramsay | Commonwealth Liberal | 1900–1904 | |
| John Lemmon | Labor | 1904–1955 | |
| Larry Floyd | Labor | 1955–1973 | |
| Gordon Stirling | Labor | 1973–1988 | |
| Joan Kirner | Labor | 1988–1994 | |
| Steve Bracks | Labor | 1994–2007 | |
| Wade Noonan | Labor | 2007–present | |
| Victorian state election, 2010: Williamstown | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Wade Noonan | 15,859 | 46.75 | -8.99 | |
| Liberal | David McConnell | 11,023 | 32.50 | +32.50 | |
| Greens | Paul Fogarty | 7,040 | 20.75 | -1.15 | |
| Total formal votes | 33,922 | 94.52 | +1.31 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,965 | 5.48 | -1.31 | ||
| Turnout | 35,887 | 92.10 | +7.17 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Wade Noonan | 20,973 | 61.84 | -2.26 | |
| Liberal | David McConnell | 12,941 | 38.16 | +38.16 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -2.26 | |||