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 | |
| State | Victoria |
| Created | 2006 |
| MP | Richard Welch (Liberal) Shaun Leane (Labor) Nick McGowan (Liberal) Aiv Puglielli (Greens) Sonja Terpstra (Labor) |
| Party | Labor (2) Liberal (1) Greens (1) |
| Electors | 546,503 (2022) |
| Area | 509 km2 (196.5 sq mi) |
| Demographic | Metropolitan |
| Coordinates | 37°48′S 145°11′E / 37.800°S 145.183°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
| 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 | Liberal | |||||||||||
| 2024 | Richard Welch | Liberal | |||||||||||||
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 results
Labor and the Liberal Party were defending two seats each. The Transport Matters Party were defending one seat.[5]
| 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 | ||