8-724: South Barwon is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria . Located in a mixed urban and rural area south of the Barwon River , it covers an area of 621 km², including the Geelong suburbs of Belmont and Grovedale , Waurn Ponds and part of Highton , the coastal centre of Torquay and the rural towns of Barrabool , Bellbrae , Connewarre , Gnarwarre , Modewarre , Moriac and Mount Moriac . The electorate had
16-430: A population of 52,241 at the 2001 census. South Barwon was created in 1976 as a predominantly rural seat which was considered safe for the conservative Liberal Party . It was won by Liberal Aurel Smith , formerly the member for Bellarine , upon its inception, and retained for the party by Harley Dickinson upon Smith's retirement in 1982. Dickinson held the seat until 1992, when he quit the party and attempted to retain
24-620: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts Electoral districts of Victoria are the electoral districts , commonly referred to as "seats" or "electorates", into which the Australian State of Victoria is divided for the purpose of electing members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly , one of the two houses of the Parliament of
32-606: The 2013 redivision applied at the 2014 and the 2018 state elections . Previous redivisions took place in 2005, 2001 and 1991. The last redivision completed in October 2021, and all changes came into effect on 1 November 2022, when the writ for the 2022 State election was issued. The redivision created 9 new districts, removed 9 districts, renamed one region, and adjusted most other boundaries. As of November 2022, there are 88 electoral districts. (Note: some current electoral districts have been previously abolished and recreated;
40-531: The Liberal Party. These changes came to a head at the 2002 election , when the Labor Party nominated former Geelong mayor Michael Crutchfield as its candidate, and amidst a statewide landslide victory, he succeeded in taking South Barwon for the first time. Crutchfield was re-elected in 2006, but lost in 2010 to local councillor and Liberal candidate Andrew Katos . Katos was re-elected in 2014 but
48-567: The State. The State is divided into 88 single-member districts. The Legislative Assembly has had 88 electorates since the 1985 election, increased from 81 previously. Electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time, in a process called redivision . The last redivision took place in 2021, when the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission reviewed Victoria's district boundaries. The boundaries arising from
56-425: The seat as an independent, but lost to endorsed Liberal candidate and former television newsreader Alister Paterson . The seat underwent significant demographic change during Paterson's tenure as successive redistributions pushed it further into Geelong. Major population growth in the traditionally Labor-voting areas of Torquay, Barwon Heads and southern Geelong, caused the seat to become progressively less safe for
64-401: Was defeated by former federal MP Darren Cheeseman in 2018 . Katos re-contested South Barwon in 2022 in an attempt to win back his former seat, however Cheeseman easily retained the seat with 59.8% of the two-party-preferred vote, on the back of a 6.8% swing towards Labor. This was the strongest result for Labor in the seat’s history. This Victoria (Australia) government-related article
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