Derrimut – Victoria 2010

ALP 24.3%

Incumbent MP
Telmo Languiller, since 2002. Previously Member for Sunshine 1999-2002.

Geography
Western Melbourne. Derrimut covers southern parts of the City of Brimbank, including the suburbs of Albion, Ardeer, Derrimut, Sunshine North and Sunshine West and parts of Deer Park, St Albans and Sunshine.

History
Derrimut has only existed as an electoral district at four previous elections. The seat existed for the 1985 and 1988 elections before being abolished in 1992, and again since 2002. In that time it has always been won by the ALP.

Derrimut was first won in 1985 by Derrimut Shire councillor David Cunningham. He held the seat for two terms, and in 1992 moved to the new seat of Melton, holding it until his retirement in 1999.

The new Derrimut was won in 2002 by Telmo Languiller, who had won the seat of Sunshine in 1999, but moved to Derrimut when Sunshine was abolished. He was re-elected in 2006.

Candidates

Political situation
Derrimut is a very safe Labor seat.

2006 result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Telmo Languiller ALP 19,103 63.44 -10.50
Charles Tran LIB 5,697 18.92 +1.59
Marc Purcell GRN 2,407 7.99 +7.99
Margaret Forster FF 2,240 7.44 +7.44
Rod Doel CEC 368 1.22 -7.52
Jorge Jorquera IND 295 0.98 +0.98

2006 two-candidate-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Telmo Languiller ALP 22,365 74.30 -3.00
Charles Tran LIB 7,735 25.70 +3.00

Booth breakdown
Polling booths in Derrimut have been divided into four areas. The ALP polled most strongly in the south of the seat. The Greens and Family First polled a similar vote across the seat. The Greens polled better in the south and west, while Family First polled better in the east and north.

 

Polling booths in Derrimut at the 2006 state election. South in yellow, East in green, North in blue, West in orange.
Voter group GRN % FF % ALP 2CP % Total votes % of votes
South 8.52 6.54 77.01 8,274 27.49
East 7.10 7.41 73.07 6,951 23.09
North 7.05 7.69 73.96 6,225 20.68
West 8.89 7.85 74.59 1,822 6.05
Other votes 8.89 8.23 72.51 6,828 22.68
Two-party-preferred votes in Derrimut at the 2006 state election.

7 COMMENTS

  1. Candidates in ballot paper order are:

    Geraldine Brooks – Greens
    Colin Moyle – Family First
    Wayne Tseng – Liberal
    Telmo Languiller – Labor
    Michael Deverala – DLP

  4. Whoa, 16% for the Greens in Derrimut? There’s probably a fair bit of donkey vote in there… they got <10% in Kororoit and Tarneit. Still a good result though.

  5. A bundle of weird booth results here. Family First got 11.3% at Deer Park Central (it’s a small booth), with 4-7% elsewhere. DLP got 8.7% at Mount Derrimut, 7.4% at Cairnlea, 7.2% at Deer Park Central and 6.7% at Deer Park West; those include the only two booths where they beat the informal vote. The combined Christian vote (DLP + FF) beat the Libs at Deer Park Central ,and almost did at Albanvale, where the Libs got a pathetic 11.5%.

    The Greens’ best were 23.6% at Sunshine, 23.5% at Ardeer (meanwhile Labor only got 34.2%, worst result in the seat), 21.6% at St Albans West and 19.6% at Albanvale.

  6. Wouldn’t be surprised if the high Greens vote in some booths is due to the strong campaign put in next door in Footscary, and is therefore simply a factor of increased awareness. Also Brimbank Council was sacked recently, and a lot of left-wing voters who couldn’t tolerate a LIB vote would have probably gone Green in protest

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