2002 Victorian state election

Australian state election April 2022 2002 Victorian state election Victoria parliamentary no 1999 Victorian state election 1999 2006 Victorian state election 2006 All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assemblyand 22 (of the 44) seats in the Victorian Legislative Council45 seats needed for a majority yes 2002 11 30 200x200px Steve Bracks 22 March 1999 Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) Williamstown 1,392,704 47.95% 2.38 42 seats 62 20 57.78% 7.58 200x200px Robert Doyle 20 August 2002 Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) Malvern 985,011 33.91% 8.31 36 seats 17 19 42.22% 7.58 200x200px Peter Ryan 16 December 1999 National Party of Australia – Victoria Gippsland South 125,003 4.30% 0.50 7 seats 7 TPP TPP swing 2002 Victorian state election.svg 400px Results in each electorate. Premier Steve Bracks Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) Steve Bracks Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) The 2002 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 30 November 2002, was for the 55th Parliament of Victoria. It was held to elect the 88 members of Victorian Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council. The Labor government led by Premier Steve Bracks was returned for a second term in a landslide victory, taking 62 seats, a gain of 20. It was easily the biggest majority that Labor had ever won in Victoria, and one of Labor's best-ever performances at the state level in Australia. Additionally, it was only the third time that a Labor government had been reelected in Victoria. Labor also recorded 57.8 percent of the two-party preferred vote, their highest on record for a Victorian election. Labor also won a majority of seats in the Legislative Council for the first time in its history. Jeff Kennett had resigned as Liberal leader soon after his shock defeat in 1999, and was succeeded by former Health Minister Denis Napthine. However, Napthine was unable to get the better of Bracks, and was ousted in August 2002 by Shadow Health Minister Robert Doyle. With just a few months before the writs were dropped, Doyle was unable to recover any significant ground. The Liberals saw their seat tally more than halved, to 17 seats — their worst result since the 1952 election. The Nationals (who after breaking off their Coalition with the Liberals rebranded themselves the 'VicNats') retained the seven seats they held from 1999. Labor was assisted by a strong economy and by the popularity of Steve Bracks, while the Liberal Party was badly divided between the Kroger and Kennett factions. The Liberal campaign was also damaged by the revelation that the shadow treasurer, Robert Dean, was ineligible to run. Dean's electorate of Berwick had been abolished and merged into the new electorate of Gembrook. Dean won Liberal preselection for Gembrook, but failed to update his address after moving to his new electorate. As a result, he was no longer on the electoral roll; Victorian law requires candidates to be registered voters. Treasurer John Brumby loudly wondered if the Liberals could be trusted to manage Victoria's economy if their shadow treasurer could not manage his own affairs. This was the last Victorian election where the Legislative Council was elected using preferential voting in single-member districts (while each province has two members, they were elected at alternate elections). The Constitution (Parliamentary Reform) Act 2003 abolished the electoral provinces and divided Victoria into eight regions each electing five members using proportional representation, with all seats being vacated each election.http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/info_sheets/Legislative_Council_History.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20011230153941/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/info_sheets/Legislative_Council_History.htm dead 30 December 2001 Information Sheet No.7: The Legislative Council's History Parliament of Victoria 18 June 2009 3 February 2010 Future Premier Daniel Andrews entered parliament at this election. Results Post-election pendulum for the 2002 Victorian state election Legislative Assembly Results of the 2002 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) File:2002 VIC Legislative Assembly.svg 3228466 102791 0.84 1.05 Labor 1392704 2.38 62 20 Liberal 985011 8.31 17 19 Greens 282585 8.58 0 National 125003 0.50 7 Independents 98700 1.32 2 1 #666600 Citizens Electoral Council 9654 0.33 0 Democrats 3948 0.14 0 #990000 Socialist Alliance 3274 0.04 0 Christian Democrats 1723 0.04 0 #ffb536 Democratic Labour 1035 0.18 0 #00ffff Hope 914 0.36 0 y Two-party-preferred Labor 1677856 7.58 #06667c Liberal/National Coalition 1226214 7.58 http://www.abc.net.au/elections/archive/vic/VIC2002_Results.pdf#page=30 2002 Victorian State Election - Summary of Results Antony Green Australian Broadcasting Corporation Antony Green July 2003 5 July 2013 Legislative Council Results of the 2002 Victorian state election (Legislative Council) thumb|300px|Results for the Legislative Council. The following voting statistics exclude the two mid-term by-elections held on the same day, at which one seat each was retained by the Liberal and National parties. Victorian state election, 30 November 2002http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/files/2002analysis.pdf Report to Parliament on the 2002 Victorian State election Victorian Electoral Commission 71 3 February 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080905055009/https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/files/2002analysis.pdf September 5, 2008 Legislative Council Victorian state election 1999 2006 yes 3,228,466 3,006,200 93.12 +0.17 110,422 3.67 +0.30 Labor VIC 1,375,245 47.49 +5.26 17 25 Liberal VIC 999,392 34.51 –5.19 3 14 Greens VIC 314,697 10.87 +8.64 0 0 Nationals VIC 126,419 4.37 –2.91 2 5 Democrats 51,718 1.79 –5.00 0 0 Hope 4,615 0.16 New 0 0 Christian Democrats 4,615 0.14 –0.10 0 0 Independent 19,534 0.67 –0.62 0 0 2,895,778 22 44 Labor VIC 1,675,893 57.85 +7.74 Liberal VIC Liberal/National 1,220,999 42.15 –7.74 |} Electoral maps Image:Melb districts pol3.JPG Image:Vic districts pol.jpg Metropolitan Melbourne: ALP held seats are marked in red. Liberal seats are coloured blue. Country Victoria: ALP seats are coloured in red, Liberal in blue, Nationals in green and independents in yellow. Seats changing hands Seat Pre-2002 Swing Post-2002 Party Member Margin Margin Member PartyBass  Independent Susan Davies 3.6 -4.2 0.6 Ken Smith Liberal Bayswater  Liberal Gordon Ashley 6.3 -9.0 2.7 Peter Lockwood Labor Bellarine  Liberal Garry Spry 1.1 -9.3 8.2 Lisa Neville Labor Benalla*  Labor Denise Allen 0.4 -2.4 2.0 Bill Sykes National Bentleigh  Liberal Inga Peulich 1.9 -6.6 4.7 Rob Hudson Labor Cranbourne  Liberal Gary Rowe -1.1 -9.7 10.8 Jude Perera Labor Eltham  Liberal Wayne Phillips 3.7 -8.5 4.8 Steve Herbert Labor Evelyn  Liberal Christine Fyffe 12.3 -12.6 0.3 Heather McTaggart Labor Ferntree Gully  Liberal Hurtle Lupton 7.6 -9.9 2.3 Anne Eckstein Labor Forest Hill  Liberal John Richardson 6.2 -12.0 5.8 Kirstie Marshall Labor Frankston  Liberal Andrea McCall 3.2 -9.0 5.8 Alistair Harkness Labor Gembrook  Liberal notional - new seat 6.7 -8.3 1.6 Tammy Lobato Labor Hastings  Liberal notional - new seat 7.1 -8.0 0.9 Rosy Buchanan Labor Kilsyth  Liberal Lorraine Elliott 7.9 -10.0 2.1 Dympna Beard Labor Monbulk  Liberal Steve McArthur 2.4 -10.7 8.3 James Merlino Labor Mordialloc  Liberal Geoff Leigh 2.5 -7.0 4.5 Janice Munt Labor Mount Waverley  Liberal Ron Wilson 9.0 -11.3 2.3 Maxine Morand Labor Narre Warren North  Liberal notional - new seat 5.1 -14.8 9.7 Luke Donnellan Labor Narre Warren South  Liberal notional - new seat 1.3 -13.9 12.6 Dale Wilson Labor Prahran  Liberal Leonie Burke 4.7 -9.1 4.4 Tony Lupton Labor South Barwon  Liberal Alister Paterson 4.7 -9.7 5.0 Michael Crutchfield Labor  Results for Benalla are based from the 2000 by-election, which Labor won from the Nationals. Cranbourne became a notionally Labor seat after the redistribution. Members listed in italics did not recontest their seats. See also Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 2002–2006 Candidates of the 2002 Victorian state election Notes References Victorian Electoral Commission, Costar, B.J. & Campbell J. Realigning Victoria: The State Election of 30 November 2002 Australian Journal of Political Science 38 : 2 313–323 Category:Elections in Victoria (state) Category:2002 elections in Australia Category:2002 in Victoria (state) Category:November 2002 in Australia