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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Mallee, Victoria
Named for: Regional name (Indigenous word for the dwarf eucalypt tree), in use as "the mallee country" from around 1850.
Northern Victoria: Horsham, Kerang, Mildura, Maryborough, Swan Hill
Enrolment at 2019 election: 113,778
Enrolment at 2022 election: 120,129 (+05.8)
1999 republic referendum: No 71.2
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 54.3
2023 Voice referendum: No 78.3
2007 Nationals majority over Labor: 21.3%
2010 Nationals majority over Labor: 24.4%
2013 Nationals majority over Liberal: 6.2%
2016 Nationals majority over Labor: 21.3%
2019 Nationals majority over Labor: 16.2%
2022 Nationals majority over Labor: 19.0%
2025 notional Nationals majority over Labor: 19.0%
Status: Very safe Nationals
Nationals two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Dr Anne Webster
The Nationals |
Division of Mallee
Mallee was created in 1949, from the northern part of the Federation seat of Wimmera. Wimmera was abolished in 1977 and
Mallee now has nearly identical borders to the old seat. It covers the north-western quarter of Victoria, including the
Murray Valley and the wheat country of the Wimmera. It has one of the highest proportions of its workforce engaged in
agriculture of any seat, and like all such seats it has a relatively low median family income level and a low proportion of
people born in non English speaking countries, although it has a surprisingly high proportion of people in professional
occupations.
Mallee has always been a safe seat for the Country Party and its successor the Nationals, although the Liberals nearly
pinched it in 1993 and again in 2013. It was the safest Coalition seat in Australia, but the inclusion of the Labor town of
Maryborough at the 2018 redistribution has slightly reduced the Nationals majority. Despite their security, until 2018 none of the
Country / Nationals members for Mallee had ever been promoted from the backbench.
Andrew Broad, who won Mallee in 2013, was apppointed an assistant minister
in 2018. But soon after it was revealed that Broad (a married man) had been using taxpayer-funded travel for sexual liaisons with a
woman in Hong Kong he had contacted online. He immediately resigned from the ministry and announced that he would not recontest Mallee.
Dr Anne Webster, Nationals MP for Mallee since 2019, has a PhD in social work
and was a Mildura sociologist before entering politics. She has also been a music teacher, a professional seamstress and an image consultant. Having survived a Liberal challenge in 2019, she is now safe in this seat, which has not been only changed by the 2024 redistribution.
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