Electoral district of Forest Hill

Forest Hill Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Forest Hill (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1976
MP	Neil Angus
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Electors	40,991 (2014)
Area	25 km^2 (9.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

Forest Hill is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.^[1] It is a 25 km² electorate located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Blackburn South, Burwood East and Vermont South and parts of Forest Hill and Vermont. The electorate had a population of 50,163 as of the 2006 census.

Forest Hill was created as a relatively safe Liberal seat in 1976, and was won by Liberal candidate John Richardson at the election that year. Richardson was re-elected at six consecutive elections, surviving some close races against Labor candidates at the height of the Cain government in the 1980s, and held the seat with a comfortable margin of over 7% when he retired at the 2002 election. However, Labor nominated high-profile skier and Winter Olympics medallist Kirstie Marshall as their candidate at that election, which combined with a statewide Labor landslide and the loss of Richardson's personal vote saw Labor easily win the seat for the first time. Marshall suffered a sharp swing back to the Liberal Party at the 2006 election, and held the seat by a margin of only 0.78%. At the 2010 election, Marshall was defeated by Liberal candidate Neil Angus.

Members for Forest Hill

Member		Party	Term
	John Richardson	Liberal	1976–2002
	Kirstie Marshall	Labor	2002–2010
	Neil Angus	Liberal	2010–present

Election results

Victorian state election, 2014: Forest Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Neil Angus	18,340	49.7	+0.9
	Labor	Pauline Richards	12,984	35.2	−3.0
	Greens	Brewis Atkinson	3,289	8.9	+1.1
	Animal Justice	Kane Rogers	999	2.7	+2.7
	Christians	Lynne Maddison	561	1.5	+1.5
	Family First	Wendy Ross	508	1.4	−0.6
	Country Alliance	Melissa Trotter	211	0.6	+0.6
Total formal votes			36,892	95.7	−0.6
Informal votes			1,646	4.3	+0.6
Turnout			38,538	94.0	−1.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Neil Angus	20,286	54.8	+1.3
	Labor	Pauline Richards	16,717	45.2	−1.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.3

External links

• Electorate profile: Forest Hill District, Victorian Electoral Commission

References

1. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 29 May 2014.