Division of Lalor

Lalor Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Lalor (green) in Victoria
Created	1949
MP	Joanne Ryan
Party	Labor
Namesake	Peter Lalor
Electors	107,228 (2013)
Area	991 km^2 (382.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Lalor (/ˈlɔːlər/, locally [ˈloːlə])^[1] is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. Located in the outer south-western suburbs of Melbourne, it includes the outer south-western hub of Werribee as well as the suburbs of Hoppers Crossing, Laverton, Point Cook, Tarneit, Truganina, Williams Landing and Wyndham Vale.

The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 Federal election. It was named after Peter Lalor, the leader of the miners at the Eureka Stockade, and a former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, which has held it for all except three years of its existence, when it was lost in the 1966 landslide. However, a redistribution ahead of the 1969 election made it a notional Labor seat. Labor retook the seat easily and has since held it without difficulty.

It has been held by a succession of senior Labor members: Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013; Barry Jones, former Minister for Science under Bob Hawke and Labor National President; and Jim Cairns, former Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister under Gough Whitlam. As Gillard was Deputy Prime Minister prior to becoming Prime Minister, Lalor is therefore the only federal electorate to have been held by two Deputy Prime Ministers.

At 9.0%, Lalor has the nation's highest proportion of children aged under 4 years old. It has the nation's lowest proportion of residents aged 65 and over (7.0%), is sixth highest nationally for families being couples with dependent children (44.4%), and has the sixth highest rate of residents purchasing their own homes (49.3%).

The current member for Lalor since the 2013 election is Joanne Ryan.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Reg Pollard	Labor	1949–1966
	Mervyn Lee	Liberal	1966–1969
	Jim Cairns	Labor	1969–1977
	Barry Jones	Labor	1977–1998
	Julia Gillard	Labor	1998–2013
	Joanne Ryan	Labor	2013–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2013: Lalor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Joanne Ryan	42,184	45.17	−18.78
	Liberal	Nihal Samara	27,321	29.26	+6.13
	Greens	Beck Sheffield-Brotherton	5,615	6.01	−1.14
	Palmer United	Joe Zappia	5,615	5.80	+5.80
	Sex Party	Angel Hardwood	3,004	3.22	+3.22
	Family First	Daryl Pollard	2,653	2.84	−0.07
	Independent	Nathan Mullins	1,842	1.97	+1.97
	Democratic Labor	Michael Freeman	1,768	1.89	+1.89
	Rise Up Australia	Marion Vale	1,684	1.80	+1.80
	Christians	Geoff Rogers	1,535	1.64	+1.64
	Stable Population	Jonathan Page	359	0.38	+0.38
Total formal votes			93,381	93.37	−0.88
Informal votes			6,630	6.63	+0.88
Turnout			100,011	93.27	+0.38
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Joanne Ryan	58,041	62.16	−9.96
	Liberal	Nihal Samara	35,340	37.84	+9.96
	Labor hold		Swing	−9.96

References

1. Those familiar with the suburb (not contained within the electorate itself), but not the electorate, may erroneously pronounce it [ˈlæɪloː] or [ˈlæɪlə].

External links

• Division of Lalor - Australian Electoral Commission

Coordinates: 37°47′46″S 144°36′50″E / 37.796°S 144.614°E