Electoral district of Bellarine

Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Template other The electoral district of Bellarine is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of stretching from the Bellarine Peninsula to the outer eastern suburbs of Geelong. It includes the towns of Barwon Heads, Clifton Springs, Drysdale, Indented Head, Ocean Grove, Point Lonsdale, Portarlington and Queenscliff and the Geelong suburb of Leopold. It lies within the Western Victoria Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council.

The seat was first created in a redistribution prior to the 1967 election but was abolished and replaced by Geelong East and South Barwon in 1976. It was revived prior to the 1985 election after Geelong East was itself abolished and population increases in South Barwon moved that electorate westwards.

It has traditionally been a marginal seat. Graham Ernst of the Labor Party won the seat in the 1985 and 1988 elections but was defeated at the 1992 election by the Liberal Party's Garry Spry who held the seat until his retirement in 2002. At the election in November of that year it was one of many seats to fall to the Labor Party, with Lisa Neville winning the seat on a swing of over nine percent.

Members for Bellarine

First incarnation (1967-1976)
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Aurel Smith	Liberal	1967–1976

Second incarnation (1985–present)
Template:Australian party style|	Graham Ernst	Labor	1985–1992
Template:Australian party style|	Garry Spry	Liberal	1992–2002
Template:Australian party style|	Lisa Neville	Labor	2002–2022
Template:Australian party style |	Alison Marchant	Labor	2022–present

Election results

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Two-party-preferred vote results in Bellarine

External links

• Electorate profile: Bellarine District, Victorian Electoral Commission

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