| Evelyn Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Location of Evelyn (dark green) in Victoria
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| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 1859 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Bridget Vallence | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Mount Evelyn | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 43,159 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 255 km2 (98.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Rural | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°45′S 145°22′E / 37.750°S 145.367°E / -37.750; 145.367 | ||||||||||||||
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The electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. It was first proclaimed in 1859.[1]
The seat has shrunk considerably in size as the eastern suburbs of Melbourne grew. It now includes the suburbs and towns of Coldstream, Gruyere, Lilydale, and Wonga Park.
The seat is usually safe for the Liberal Party but it was won by the Labor Party during their three landslide victories of 1952, 1982 and 2002.
At the 2006 election Christine Fyffe regained the seat for the Liberals, defeating Heather McTaggart. Fyffe was re-elected to the district during at the 2010 and 2014 Victorian state elections.[2]
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| John Charles King | Unaligned | 1859–1859 | |
| William Bell | Unaligned | 1859–1860 | |
| William Jones | Unaligned | 1860–1863 | |
| John Thomson | Unaligned | 1863–1865 | |
| William Watkins | Unaligned | 1866–1874 | |
| Ewen Hugh Cameron | Conservative | 1874–1909 | |
| Comm Liberal | 1909–1914 | ||
| James Rouget | Comm Liberal | 1914–1917 | |
| Nationalist | 1917–1917 | ||
| William Everard | Economy | 1917–1918 | |
| Nationalist | 1918–1924 | ||
| Independent | 1924–1924 | ||
| United Australia | 1924–1945 | ||
| Liberal / LCP | 1945–1950 | ||
| Roland Leckie | LCP | 1950–1952 | |
| Phillip Connell | Labor | 1952–1958 | |
| Russell Stokes | LCP / Liberal | 1958–1973 | |
| Jim Plowman | Liberal | 1973–1982 | |
| Max McDonald | Labor | 1982–1985 | |
| Jim Plowman | Liberal | 1985–1999 | |
| Christine Fyffe | Liberal | 1999–2002 | |
| Heather McTaggart | Labor | 2002–2006 | |
| Christine Fyffe | Liberal | 2006–2018 | |
| Bridget Vallence | Liberal | 2018–present | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | Bridget Vallence | 20,385 | 46.7 | −1.8 | |
| Labor | Lorna Dent | 14,277 | 32.7 | −8.0 | |
| Greens | Andrew Henley | 4,052 | 9.3 | −0.4 | |
| Family First | Jeanette Dobson | 2,318 | 5.3 | +5.3 | |
| Animal Justice | Jan Heald | 1,819 | 4.2 | +4.2 | |
| Independent | Nat De Francesco | 448 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
| Independent | Rosalie De Francesco | 366 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
| Total formal votes | 43,664 | 95.1 | +0.8 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,255 | 4.9 | −0.8 | ||
| Turnout | 45,919 | 91.5 | +2.6 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Bridget Vallence | 24,190 | 55.4 | +3.6 | |
| Labor | Lorna Dent | 19,474 | 44.6 | −3.6 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.6 | |||
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