Bulleen – Victoria 2018

LIB 10.6%

Incumbent MP
Matthew Guy, since 2014. Previously member of the Legislative Council representing Northern Metropolitan, 2006-2014.

Geography
Eastern Melbourne. Bulleen covers western parts of the City of Manningham, specifically the suburbs of Bulleen, Lower Templestowe and Templestowe and parts of Doncaster.

History
Bulleen was first created before the 1985 election. It has always been held by the Liberal Party. Bulleen was first won in 1985 by David Perrin. He served as a shadow minister from 1988 to 1991, but did not serve as a minister in the Kennett government. Perrin lost preselection at the 1999 election to Nicholas Kotsiras.

Kotsiras was re-elected three times, and retired in 2014.

Matthew Guy won Bulleen in 2014. Guy had served as a member of the Legislative Council since 2006, and had served as Minister for Planning in the Liberal government from 2010 until 2014. Guy was elected leader of the Liberal Party following the 2014 election.

Candidates

Assessment
Bulleen is a safe Liberal seat.

2014 result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Matthew Guy Liberal 21,983 56.2 -3.7
Adam Rundell Labor 11,859 30.3 +3.4
Ben Cronly Greens 3,824 9.8 +0.9
Eleni Arapoglou Australian Christians 1,452 3.7 +3.7
Informal 2,018 4.9

2014 two-party-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Matthew Guy Liberal 23,699 60.6 -4.5
Adam Rundell Labor 15,438 39.4 +4.5

Booth breakdown

Booths in Bulleen have been divided into three areas: central, east and west.

The Liberal Party won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 56.1% in the west to 60.7% in the north-east.

Voter group LIB 2PP % Total votes % of votes
South-East 59.3 8,438 21.6
North-East 60.7 8,166 20.9
West 56.1 7,241 18.5
Other votes 63.5 7,231 18.5
Pre-poll 63.2 8,042 20.6

Two-party-preferred votes in Bulleen at the 2014 Victorian state election

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2 COMMENTS

  1. ABC Radio has just announced the Mathew Guy is to stand down as Liberal leader in Victoria. However I think he should say on as a back bench MP as he has not done anything controversial to warrant leaving parliament.

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