North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region, previously Eastern Metropolitan Region between 2006 and 2022, is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council. The region was renamed to its current name since the 2022 state election.[1]

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Victoria—Legislative Council
Location of Eastern Metropolitan Region (dark green) in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created2006
MPMatthew Bach (Liberal)
Shaun Leane (Labor)
Nick McGowan (Liberal)
Aiv Puglielli (Greens)
Sonja Terpstra (Labor)
Party  Labor (2)
  Liberal (2)
  Greens (1)
Electors546,503 (2022)
Area509 km2 (196.5 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates37°48′S 145°11′E

The region extends from Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs of Bulleen and Doncaster, north across the Yarra River to Lower Plenty and Eltham, and across to Bayswater, Croydon and Ferntree Gully (in the Dandenong Ranges) in the east below the Dandenong Ranges. It comprises the Legislative Assembly districts of Bayswater, Box Hill, Bulleen, Bundoora, Croydon, Eltham, Glen Waverley, Ivanhoe, Mill Park, Ringwood and Warrandyte.

Members
Members for North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Year Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party
2006   Shaun Leane Labor   Brian Tee Labor   Richard Dalla-Riva Liberal   Jan Kronberg Liberal   Bruce Atkinson Liberal
2010
2014   Samantha Dunn Greens Mary Wooldridge Liberal
2018   Sonja Terpstra Labor   Rod Barton Transport Matters
2020 Matthew Bach Liberal
2022   Aiv Puglielli Greens Nick McGowan

Returned MLCs by seat

Seats are allocated by single transferable vote using group voting tickets. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity.[2][3][4]

Election 1st MLC 2nd MLC 3rd MLC 4th MLC 5th MLC
2006 Liberal
(Richard Dalla-Riva)		 Labor
(Shaun Leane)		 Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)		 Labor
(Brian Tee)		 Liberal
(Jan Kronberg)
2010 Liberal
(Richard Dalla-Riva)		 Labor
(Shaun Leane)		 Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)		 Liberal
(Jan Kronberg)		 Labor
(Brian Tee)
2014 Liberal
(Mary Wooldridge)		 Labor
(Shaun Leane)		 Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)		 Liberal
(Richard Dalla-Riva)		 Greens
(Samantha Dunn)
2018 Labor
(Shaun Leane)		 Liberal
(Mary Wooldridge)		 Labor
(Sonja Terpstra)		 Liberal
(Bruce Atkinson)		 Transport Matters
(Rod Barton)
2022 Labor
(Shaun Leane)		 Liberal
(Matthew Bach)		 Labor
(Sonja Terpstra)		 Liberal
(Nick McGowan)		 Greens
(Aiv Puglielli)

Election results
Further information: Electoral results for the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Council) § North-Eastern Metropolitan.[edit]

Labor and the Liberal Party were defending two seats each. The Transport Matters Party were defending one seat.[5]

2022 Victorian state election: North-Eastern Metropolitan
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 80,147
Labor 1. Shaun Leane (elected 1)
2. Sonja Terpstra (elected 3)
3. Nildhara Gadani
4. Rana Shahid Javed
5. Kieran Simpson		 162,183 33.73 -3.24
Liberal 1. Matthew Bach (elected 2)
2. Nick McGowan (elected 4)
3. Kirsten Langford
4. Irene Ling
5. Sally Houguet		 145,788 30.32 −5.81
Greens 1. Aiv Puglielli (elected 5)
2. Sophia Sun
3. Liz Chase
4. Asher Cookson
5. Sarah Newman		 49,934 10.38 +1.39
Democratic Labour 1. Hugh Dolan
2. Brenton van der Ende
3. George Tsingopoulos
4. James Tra		 25,055 5.21 +3.51
Liberal Democrats 1. Maya Tesa
2. Josh Lay		 20,379 4.24 +0.07
Legalise Cannabis 1. Nicholas Wallis
2. Anna Negri		 15,357 3.19 +3.19
Family First 1. Alister Cameron
2. Nina van Strijp		 10,063 2.09 +2.09
Animal Justice 1. Chris Delforce
2. Angel Aleksov		 6,799 1.41 -0.99
Justice 1. Judith Thompson
2. Annette Philpott		 6,759 1.41 -1.12
One Nation 1. Peter Richardson
2. William Turner		 6,086 1.27 +1.27
Reason 1. Nina Springle
2. Francis Cairns		 4,774 0.99 −0.20
Freedom 1. Greg Cheesman
2. Daniella Heatherich		 4,684 0.97 +0.97
Shooters, Fishers, Farmers 1. Chris Banhidy
2. Hugh Hanson		 4,401 0.92 -0.33
Sack Dan Andrews 1. Serife Cobankara
2. Husyin Cobankara		 3,236 0.67 +0.67
Health Australia 1. Leesa Michelle Munro
2. Andrew Hicks		 3,171 0.66 +0.08
Victorian Socialists 1. Lucas Moore
2. Lillian Kopschewa		 2,585 0.54 +0.09
United Australia 1. Nathan Scaglione
2. Irene Zivkovic		 2,436 0.51 +0.51
Sustainable Australia 1. Jack Corcoran
2. William Clow		 1,875 0.39 -0.42
Companions and Pets 1. Craig Reid
2. Julia Jones		 1,738 0.36 +0.36
Angry Victorians 1. Wally Edwards
2. Joe Gianfriddo		 1,673 0.35 +0.35
Transport Matters 1. Rod Barton
2. Kim Guest		 1,023 0.21 -0.41
New Democrats 1. Darshan Lal Jaisinghani
2. Rajat Garg
3. Pushpdeep Narang		 879 0.18 +0.18
Total formal votes 480,878 97.21 +0.33
Informal votes 13,484 2.79 -0.33
Turnout 494,672 91.68 −2.04

References
  1. "North-Eastern Metropolitan Region". Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  2. "State Election 2006 : Eastern Metropolitan Region". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  3. "State Election 2010 : Eastern Metropolitan Region". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  4. "State Election 2014 : Eastern Metropolitan Region". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  5. "North-Eastern Metropolitan Region results". www.vec.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 27 December 2022.


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