ALP 18.5%
Incumbent MP
Brendan O’Connor, since 2004. Previously Member for Burke 2001-2004.
Geography
Western Melbourne. Gorton covers all of the City of Melton and western parts of the City of Brimbank. As well as Melton, Gorton covers the suburbs of Derrimut, Deer Park, Cairnlea, Albanvale, Kings Park, Burnside, Ravenhall, Caroline Springs, Delahey, Hillside and Calder Park.
Redistribution
Gorton retracted on its eastern edge, losing Delahey, Cairnlea and Derrimut to Fraser. These changes reduced the Labor margin from 19.5% to 18.5%.
History
Gorton is the newest seat in Victoria, having been created at the 2004 election. The seat replaced the abolished seat of Burke, which sat in the same part of Melbourne. It is named after former Prime Minister John Gorton, who died in 2002. In its short history Gorton has been a very safe Labor seat, as was its predecessor seat of Burke.
Burke was created for the 1969 election. It was largely a safe seat, although it was considered marginal for much of the 1980s. It was held by Keith Johnson until 1980, followed by Andrew Theophanous from 1980 to 1984, when he moved to the new seat of Calwell, which he held until 2001. The seat was then held by Neil O’Keefe from 1984 to 2001. O’Keefe served as a Parliamentary Secretary in the second term of the Keating government.
In 2001, Burke was won by Brendan O’Connor, an official with the Australian Services Union, and O’Connor won the renamed Gorton in 2004. O’Connor has held Gorton ever since.
Candidates
- Richard Turton (United Australia)
- Jarrod Bingham (Independent)
- Harkirat Singh (Greens)
- Brendan O’Connor (Labor)
- Nathan Di Noia (Liberal)
Assessment
Gorton is a very safe Labor seat.
2016 result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Brendan O’Connor | Labor | 61,110 | 62.3 | +11.6 | 61.2 |
| Daryl Lang | Liberal | 27,305 | 27.8 | +2.4 | 28.8 |
| Rod Swift | Greens | 9,690 | 9.9 | +3.5 | 10.0 |
| Informal | 5,253 | 5.1 |
2016 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Brendan O’Connor | Labor | 68,135 | 69.5 | +3.3 | 68.5 |
| Daryl Lang | Liberal | 29,970 | 30.5 | -3.3 | 31.5 |
Booth breakdown
Polling places in Gorton have been divided into three parts: north-east, south-east and west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 67.7% in the west to 73.4% in the south-east.
The Greens came third, with a primary vote ranging from 8.9% in the north-east to 11.7% in the west.
| Voter group | GRN prim % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North-East | 8.9 | 68.5 | 17,472 | 20.9 |
| West | 11.7 | 67.7 | 16,919 | 20.2 |
| South-East | 10.0 | 73.4 | 9,959 | 11.9 |
| Other votes | 10.4 | 66.9 | 11,884 | 14.2 |
| Pre-poll | 9.4 | 67.9 | 27,363 | 32.7 |
Election results in Gorton at the 2016 federal election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and Greens primary votes.
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say Labor retain.
I think this was the only 3 candidate contest in 2016. Palmer says he’s going to run in all 151 again so there goes that.
Not much else to comment on here.
actually there is the independent jarrod bingham who helped almost turn the victorian election seat of melton from a 20% labour to a 5% marginal contesting the federal seat of gorton with some strong policies
Former Liberal upper house candidate, Nathan Di Noia has been preselected for Gorton.
I thought the party would preselect Ryan farrow who ran a great campaign in Melton.
well with a early campaign by the independent a lot more people know who he is because no other candidate has had corflutes or banners out. until the day before the pre poll had opened up and now with him sitting number 3 to all the parties how to vote cards if he takes a lot of the first round votes based on his number 3 on all the party how to vote cards and number 2 on the paper he may pick up a lot more than people think incl the majority of the donkey vote WATCH THIS SPACE 18.5% maybe wiped
Had to come here to find out who our local candidates are (3 days before election day) as we have had no notifications from anyone in our mail box, no flyers, no local papers here (Hillside). Any candidate who puts a flyer in our letter box will get our vote.
hey mark
i am helping out the local candidate jarrod bingham the snake wrangler and i can tell you that he won’t be doing letterbox drops but is doing a lot of social media as research shows a lot people throw away junk mail but if you want to have a look at some of his policies have a look at http://www.jarrodbingham.com.au as he is a independent not part of a party but look to create a party in the future
There has been no information delivered to Burnside either. Sorry some very generic material was received.
Seats like this get lost in the mix, but it’s interesting to see a major swing against Labor here in the Sydenham/Delahey/St Albans part of the seat.
Melton, however, mostly swung the other way.
great win for United Australia Party out polled the Greens.