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Electoral district of Eltham

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State
  
Victoria

MP
  
Vicki Ward

Founded
  
1992

Member of parliament
  
Vicki Ward

Party
  
Australian Labor Party

Created
  
1992

Electors
  
44,409 (2014)

Area
  
51 kmĀ²

Elector
  
44,409

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Demographic
  
Outer metropolitan/semi-rural

The Electoral district of Eltham is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is an outer metropolitan electorate and contains Eltham, Lower Plenty as well as parts of Greensborough and Kangaroo Ground.

Eltham was created prior to the 1992 election and although it had a notional Labor margin of 4.3%, it was easily won by Wayne Phillips for the Liberal Party with a swing of over 14%. Phillips held the seat before being defeated in the ' Brackslide' of 2002.

The current member is Labor MP Vicki Ward.

References

Electoral district of Eltham Wikipedia