Electoral district of Mildura

Mildura Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Mildura (dark green) in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	1927
MP	Jade Benham
Party	National
Namesake	Town of Mildura
Electors	44,401 (2018)
Area	37,529 km^2 (14,490.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural
Electorates around Mildura: South Australia New South Wales New South Wales South Australia Mildura Murray Plains South Australia Lowan Ripon

Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria and sits within the Northern Victoria electorate.[1] It is a 37,529 km^2 rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale.

Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of Labor control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the Liberal Party, with journalist Craig Bildstien winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent Russell Savage. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide.

Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party.

Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.

Members for Mildura

	Member	Party	Term
	Albert Allnutt	Country Progressive	1927–1930
		Country	1930–1945
		Independent	1945
	Louis Garlick	Labor	1945–1947
	Nathaniel Barclay	Country	1947–1952
	Alan Lind	Labor	1952–1955
	Nathaniel Barclay	Country	1955–1962
	Milton Whiting	Country	1962–1975
		National Country	1975–1982
		National	1982–1988
	Craig Bildstien	Liberal	1988–1996
	Russell Savage	Independent	1996–2006
	Peter Crisp	National	2006–2018
	Ali Cupper	Independent	2018–2022
	Jade Benham	National	2022–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Mildura

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Mildura.[edit]

2022 Victorian state election: Mildura[2][3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Ali Cupper	12,913	33.9	+2.9
	National	Jade Benham	9,868	25.9	−11.4
	Liberal	Paul Matheson	7,291	19.1	+16.1
	Labor	Stella Zigouras	2,483	6.5	−11.1
	Independent	Glenn Milne	1,716	4.5	+4.5
	Ind. (Australia One)	Sonia Brymer	1,080	2.8	+2.8
	Greens	Katie Clements	894	2.3	−1.4
	Democratic Labour	Felicity Sharpe	586	1.5	+1.4
	Family First	Brad Stratton	560	1.5	+1.5
	Freedom	Philippe John Brougham	416	1.1	+1.1
	Animal Justice	Angylina Zayn	333	0.9	+0.8
Total formal votes			38,140	92.5	−2.3
Informal votes			3,096	7.5	+2.3
Turnout			41,236	86.0	−1.9
Notional two-party-preferred count
	National	Jade Benham	24,454	64.1	+8.0
	Labor	Stella Zigouras	13,686	35.9	−8.0
Two-candidate-preferred result
	National	Jade Benham	19,520	51.2	+0.9
	Independent	Ali Cupper	18,620	48.8	−0.9
	National gain from Independent		Swing	+0.9

References

1. "Parliament of Victoria". Parliament of Victoria – electorates. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
2. Green, Antony (11 January 2023). "VIC22 – 2-Party Preferred Results and Swings by District". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
3. VIC 2021 Final Redistribution, ABC News. [Retrieved 1 January 2023.
4. Mildura District results, Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.

• District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission