Electoral district of Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Ivanhoe (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1945
MP	Anthony Carbines
Party	Australian Labor Party
Electors	44,366 (2014)
Area	32 km^2 (12.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan

The Electoral district of Ivanhoe is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and includes the suburbs of Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Rosanna and Macleod.

Formed in 1945 the seat has usually been fairly safe for the Liberal Party having only been won by Labor at its 1952 and 1982 landslides before the 1990s. However a redistribution prior to the 1992 election made the seat notionally Labor. Liberal candidate Vin Heffernan was able to win at that election, only to be one of just three sitting Liberals defeated at the 1996 election. Labor's Craig Langdon held the seat comfortably until he resigned from the parliament on 25 August 2010, citing family and personal reasons, as well as "disloyalty and betrayal" from several of his colleagues. Langdon had failed to gain pre-selection for the 2010 state election, and there was speculation that his early resignation would trigger a by-election in Ivanhoe.^[1] In fact, on 13 September a by-election writ was issued, but the next day House Speaker Jenny Lindell announced that she would discharge the writ citing significant expense to hold a by-election three weeks before the full state election.^[2]

Members for Ivanhoe

Member		Party	Term
	Robert Gardner	Independent	1945–1947
	Rupert Curnow	Liberal	1947–1950
	Frank Block	Liberal	1951–1952
	Michael Lucy	Labor	1952–1955
		Labor (Anti-Communist)
	Vernon Christie	Liberal	1955–1973
	Bruce Skeggs	Liberal	1973–1982
	Tony Sheehan	Labor	1982–1985
	Vin Heffernan	Liberal	1985–1996
	Craig Langdon	Labor	1996–2010
	Anthony Carbines	Labor	2010–present

Election results

Victorian state election, 2014: Ivanhoe

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Carl Ziebell	15,730	40.0	−2.0
	Labor	Anthony Carbines	14,133	36.0	+0.1
	Greens	Paul Kennedy	6,147	15.6	−1.8
	Independent	Craig Langdon	1,905	4.8	+4.8
	Christians	Gurmender Grewal	558	1.4	+1.4
	Family First	Jesse Boer	474	1.2	+0.9
	Independent	Abdirizak Mohamed	355	0.9	+0.9
Total formal votes			39,302	95.4	−0.1
Informal votes			1,890	4.6	+0.1
Turnout			41,192	92.8	−1.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Anthony Carbines	20,991	53.4	+1.6
	Liberal	Carl Ziebell	18,311	46.6	−1.6
	Labor hold		Swing	+1.6

References

1. Disloyalty, betrayal': Vic Labor MP quits, ABC News, 25 August 2010.
2. Speaker decides against Ivanhoe by-election, ABC News, 14 September 2010.

External links

• Electorate profile: Ivanhoe District, Victorian Electoral Commission