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Electoral district of Footscray

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State
  
Victoria

Electors
  
46,116 (2014)

Area
  
39 km²

Elector
  
46,116

Party
  
Australian Labor Party

Demographic
  
Inner Metropolitan

Member of parliament
  
Marsha Thomson

Namesake
  
Electoral district of Footscray httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Dates current
  
1877–1904, 1927–present

The Electoral district of Footscray is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne and covers the suburbs of Footscray, Maribyrnong and Seddon.

The seat was first created by "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876" taking effect at the 1877 elections. It was abolished in 1904 and recreated in 1927. In its current incarnation it has been held by the Australian Labor Party for its entire existence, as it lies in Labor's traditional heartland of western and northern Melbourne.

Marsha Thomson retained the seat for Labor at the 2006 election after the retirement of Bruce Mildenhall.

References

Electoral district of Footscray Wikipedia


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