2025 Werribee state by-election

2025 Werribee state by-election
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Electoral district of Werribee in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
  First party Second party Third party
 
IND
Candidate John Lister TBA Paul Hopper
Party Labor Liberal Independent
MP before election

Tim Pallas
Labor

Elected MP

TBC

A by-election for the electorate of Werribee in the Victorian Legislative Assembly is scheduled to be on 8 February 2025 following the resignation of incumbent member Tim Pallas, which was announced on 16 December 2024.

Background

2022 election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Werribee.[edit]
2022 Victorian state election: Werribee[1][2][3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tim Pallas 17,512 45.4 −0.6
Liberal Mia Shaw 9,779 25.3 +8.7
Greens Jack Boddeke 2,613 6.8 +0.3
Independent Paul Hopper 2,278 5.9 +5.9
Victorian Socialists Sue Munro 1,391 3.6 +3.6
Family First Matthew Emerson 964 2.5 +2.5
Democratic Labour Kathryn Breakwell 767 2.0 −1.2
Animal Justice Josh Segrave 730 1.9 +1.9
Justice Patricia Anne Wicks 709 1.8 +1.8
Freedom Mark Strother 663 1.7 +1.7
Transport Matters Trevor Russell Collins 360 0.9 +0.9
New Democrats Prashant Tandon 319 0.8 +0.8
Health Australia Karen Hogan 260 0.7 +0.7
Independent Patrizia Barcatta 213 0.6 +0.6
Independent Heni Cazlynn Kwan 45 0.1 +0.1
Total formal votes 38,603 90.3 −2.9
Informal votes 4,156 9.7 +2.9
Turnout 42,759 85.6 +4.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Tim Pallas 23,517 60.9 −2.4
Liberal Mia Shaw 15,086 39.1 +2.4
Labor hold Swing −2.4

Candidates

Party Candidate Background
  Labor John Lister Teacher and CFA volunteer firefighter
  Independent Paul Hopper Candidate for Werribee in 2022 and co-founder of unregistered West Party[6][7]
  Victorian Socialists Sue Munro Community activist and agency-enrolled nurse

Labor

Labor announced on 23 December 2024 that John Lister, a local school teacher and Country Fire Authority (CFA) volunteer firefighter, would be its candidate for the by-election.[8]

Others

The Liberal Party has indicated that they will contest the by-election.[9]

References

  1. ^ Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  2. ^ VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  3. ^ Full preference distributions – 2022 State election, Victorian Electoral Commission. [Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  4. ^ Green, Antony (10 January 2023). "VIC22 – Werribee – Analysis of Preferences". Antony Green's Election Blog. Archived from the original on 18 December 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Werribee District results". Victorian Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 25 October 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  6. ^ Lucas, Cade (2 December 2024). "New party to challenge Labor". Star Weekly. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
  7. ^ Eddie, Rachel; Rooney, Kieran (17 December 2024). "With state byelections looming, there is no clear successor to Pallas". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 24 December 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  8. ^ Clarke, Mitch (23 December 2024). "John Lister named as Labor's Werribee candidate". Geelong Advertiser. Archived from the original on 23 December 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto apologises to Moira Deeming, calls new vote". ABC News. 22 December 2024. Archived from the original on 22 December 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024. Since last Friday's meeting it has become clear that there is now a definite absolute majority of my colleagues who want this issue resolved with her readmission so that we can collectively put this behind us and concentrate on the Prahran and Werribee by-elections and holding the Allan Labor Government to account.