Electoral district of Richmond (Victoria)

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Richmond is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is currently a 13 km2 electorate in the inner east of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Richmond, Cremorne, Burnley, Abbotsford, Collingwood, Clifton Hill, North Fitzroy and Fitzroy. Historically a very safe seat for the Labor Party, Richmond has in recent elections become increasingly marginal against the Greens, who eventually won the seat at the 2022 Victorian state election.

History

Richmond is one of only three electorates (along with Brighton and Williamstown) to have been contested at every election since 1856.[1] It was initially a two-member electorate, but was changed to return only a single member in the redistribution of 1904 when several new districts were created including Abbotsford.[1] It covers a series of traditionally working-class, industrial suburbs, and has been continuously held by the Labor Party with the exception of only one term since 1904. The brief exception occurred amidst the famous Labor split of 1955, when the incumbent Labor member, Frank Scully, joined six other Catholic MPs in breaking away to found the Democratic Labor Party. Scully, as the party's leader, was the only MP to hold his seat at the next election, but was defeated in 1958 by Bill Towers, previously the member for the abolished seat of Collingwood.

Though a traditionally safe Labor seat, it has become progressively marginal in recent years due to increasing support for the Greens in the area. This first occurred at the 2002 state election, when union organiser Gemma Pinnell nearly won the seat on Liberal preferences, taking 47 per cent of the two-party preferred vote. The Green surge was seen as a reaction to the conservative policies of the then federal Labor leader, Kim Beazley, by the generally progressive inner city constituency. Labor polled slightly better in the 2006 state election, taking 54% of the two-party preferred against Greens candidate and local councillor Gurm Sekhon. It remains a marginal seat, however, and was strongly contested by Greens candidate, Kathleen Maltzahn, at the state elections in 2010 and 2014.

Former member Richard Wynne, a Labor Party member, served as the state Minister for Housing and Minister for Local Government in the Bracks and Brumby governments from 2006 to 2010, and was the Minister for Planning in the second Andrews government. Wynne gained the seat in 1999 after the former Labor member, Demetri Dollis, was disendorsed for extended absence overseas.

The current member is Gabrielle de Vietri.

Historical maps

Members for Richmond

Two-member electorate (1856–1904)

Image Member Party Term Notes Image Member Party Term Notes
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg George Evans
(1802–1868)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 November 1856 –
1 August 1859 		Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Daniel Campbell
(1812–1875)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 November 1856 –
1 August 1859
rowspan=7; Template:Australian party style|  File:James Goodall Francis (1819-1884).jpg James Francis
(1819–1884)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 October 1859 –
1 November 1874 		Premier of Victoria from 1872 until 1874. Resigned Template:Australian party style|  File:Explorers and Early colonists 1872.jpg Alfred Woolley
(1818–1890)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 October 1859 –
1 July 1861
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Thomas Lambert
(1829–1877)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 August 1861 –
1 July 1864
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Archibald Wardrop
(1828–1887)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 November 1864 –
1 July 1866 		Resigned
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Ambrose Kyte
(1822–1868)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 January 1867 –
1 December 1867 		Former member for East Melbourne. Won by-election[3][4]
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg James Harcourt
(1813–1893)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 June 1868 –
1 June 1871
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Louis Smith
(1830–1910)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 April 1871 –
1 March 1874
rowspan=2; Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Robert Inglis
(1833–1915)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 May 1874 –
1 April 1877
rowspan=5; Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Joseph Bosisto
(1827–1898)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 December 1874 –
1 March 1889
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Louis Smith
(1830–1910)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 May 1877 –
1 February 1880
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William Froggatt Walker
(1840–1890)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 May 1880 –
1 June 1880
Template:Australian party style|  File:3x4.svg Louis Smith
(1830–1910)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 July 1880 –
1 February 1883
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Charles Smith
(1833–1903)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 February 1883 –
1 March 1889
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George Henry Bennett
(1850–1908)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Unaligned 1 April 1889 –
1 June 1904 		Re-elected when Richmond became single-member seat in 1904
Template:Australian party style|  File:Portrait of the Honorable William Arthur Trenwith (cropped).jpg William Trenwith
(1846–1925)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 1 April 1889 –
18 November 1903 		First leader of the Victorian Labor Party. Resigned to successfully contest 1903 federal election and served as senator for Victoria from 1904 until 1910
Template:Australian party style|  File:Labor Placeholder.png George Roberts
(1868–1925)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 21 December 1903 –
1 June 1904 		Lost seat when Richmond became single-member seat in 1904

Single-member electorate (1904–present)

Image Member Party Term Notes
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George Henry Bennett
(1850–1908)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Liberal Oppositionist 1 June 1904 –
14 February 1907 		Died in office[5]
Template:Australian party style|  Template:Australian politics/name 14 February 1907 –
8 September 1908
Template:Australian party style|  File:Ted Cotter.jpg Ted Cotter
(1866–1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 2 October 1908 –
10 November 1945 		Won by-election. Retired after losing Labor preselection[6]
Template:Australian party style|  File:StanKeon.jpg Stan Keon
(1915–1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 10 November 1945 –
22 October 1949 		Resigned to successfully contest Yarra at the 1949 federal election[7][8]
Template:Australian party style|  File:Frank Scully.png Frank Scully
(1920–2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 17 December 1949 –
30 March 1955 		Won by-election. Joined Labor (Anti-Communist) after being suspended from Labor. Lost seat[9][10][11]
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18 August 1957
Template:Australian party style|  Template:Australian politics/name 18 August 1957 –
31 May 1958
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Bill Towers
(1892–1962)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 31 May 1958 –
18 March 1962 		Died in office
Template:Australian party style|  File:Clyde Holding 1974 (cropped).jpg Clyde Holding
(1931–2011)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 12 May 1962 –
3 November 1977 		Won by-election. Leader of the Opposition from 1967 until 1977. Resigned to successfully contest Melbourne Ports at the 1977 federal election
Template:Australian party style|  File:Labor Placeholder.png Theo Sidiropoulos
(1924–1998)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 17 December 1977 –
1 October 1988 		Won by-election. First Greek-born member of the Parliament of Victoria. Retired[12]
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Demetri Dollis
(1956–)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 1 October 1988 –
18 September 1999 		Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1994 until 1996.[13] Disendorsed for extended absence overseas.[14] Later served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece[15][16]
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Richard Wynne
(1955–)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 18 September 1999 –
26 November 2022 		Retired[17][18]
Template:Australian party style|  File:Gabrielle de Vietri 2022.jpg Gabrielle de Vietri
(1983–)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Template:Australian politics/name 26 November 2022 –
present 		Incumbent

Election results

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