Eastern Metropolitan Region

Eastern Metropolitan Region; Victoria—Legislative Council
	Location of Eastern Metropolitan Region (dark green) in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	2006
MP	Bruce Atkinson (Liberal); Rod Barton (Transport Matters); Shaun Leane (Labor); Sonja Terpstra (Labor); Matthew Bach (Liberal)
Party	Liberal (2) ; Labor (2) ; Transport Matters (1)
Electors	469,549 (2018)
Area	420 km2 (162.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	37°48′S 145°11′E

Eastern Metropolitan Region 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 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. The most southerly suburb is Rowville. It comprises the Legislative Assembly districts of Bayswater, Box Hill, Bulleen, Croydon, Eltham, Ferntree Gully, Forest Hill, Ivanhoe, Mount Waverley, Ringwood and Warrandyte.

Members

Seats are allocated by single transferable vote using group voting tickets. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity.[1][2][3]

Election
2006	Liberal (Richard Dalla-Riva)	Labor (Shaun Leane)	Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)	Labor (Brian Tee)	Liberal (Jan Kronberg)
2010	Liberal (Richard Dalla-Riva)	Labor (Shaun Leane)	Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)	Liberal (Jan Kronberg)	Labor (Brian Tee)
2014	Liberal (Mary Wooldridge)	Labor (Shaun Leane)	Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)	Liberal (Richard Dalla-Riva)	Greens (Samantha Dunn)
2018	Labor (Shaun Leane)	Liberal (Mary Wooldridge)	Labor (Sonja Terpstra)	Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)	Transport Matters (Rod Barton)

The Liberal Party were defending three seats while the Greens and Labor were defending one each.[4]

2018 Victorian state election: Eastern Metropolitan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Quota			69,756
	Labor	1. Shaun Leane (elected 1) 2. Sonja Terpstra (elected 3) 3. Nildhara Gadani 4. Abhimanyu Kumar 5. Barry Terzic	154,716	36.97	+8.30
	Liberal	1. Mary Wooldridge (elected 2) 2. Bruce Atkinson (elected 4) 3. Emanuele Cicchiello 4. Grace Roy 5. Shilpa Hegde	151,216	36.13	−9.59
	Greens	1. Samantha Dunn 2. Helen Harris 3. Liezl Shnookal 4. Monique Edwards 5. Daniela Tymms	37,650	8.99	−1.49
	Liberal Democrats	1. Brenton Ford 2. Marcos Fernandes	17,452	4.17	+2.83
	Justice	1. Linda De Rango 2. Kathryn Lavell	10,583	2.53	+2.53
	Animal Justice	1. Rosemary Lavin 2. Theresa Weymouth	10,031	2.40	+0.69
	Democratic Labour	1. Jeremy Orchard 2. Benjamin Cronshaw	7,097	1.70	−0.59
	Shooters, Fishers, Farmers	1. Monique Ruyter 2. Grant Poulton	5,245	1.25	+0.42
	Reason	1. Douglas Leitch 2. Glenn Lynch	4,996	1.19	−0.86
	Voluntary Euthanasia	1. Dermot Ryan 2. Tara Nipe	3,722	0.89	−0.19
	Sustainable Australia	1. Lynnette Saloumi 2. Perrin Wilkins	3,400	0.81	+0.81
	Transport Matters	1. Rod Barton (elected 5) 2. Toni Peters	2,590	0.62	+0.62
	Health Australia	1. Andrew Hicks 2. Gabrielle Brodie	2,426	0.58	+0.58
	Aussie Battler	1. Bryce Larson 2. Clyde Sterry	2,231	0.53	+0.53
	Liberty Alliance	1. Indhira Bivieca Aquino 2. Royston Wilding	1,930	0.46	+0.46
	Victorian Socialists	1. Norrian Rundle 2. Liam Ward	1,887	0.45	+0.45
	Country	1. Mil Erikozu 2. Russel Proud	1184	0.28	−0.14
	Hudson for Northern Victoria	1. Shelley van Luenen 2. Deidre Bailey	176	0.04	+0.04
Total formal votes			418,532	96.88	−0.31
Informal votes			13,484	3.12	+0.31
Turnout			432,016	91.68	−2.04

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