Sandringham – Victoria 2014

LIB 15.6%

Incumbent MP
Murray Thompson, since 1992.

Geography
Southern Melbourne. Sandringham covers the southern half of the City of Bayside, covering suburbs along Port Phillip Bay, including Beaumaris, Black Rock, Highett and Sandringham and parts of the suburbs of Cheltenham, Hampton and Mentone.

Map of Sandringham's 2010 and 2014 boundaries. 2010 boundaries marked as red lines, 2014 boundaries marked as white area. Click to enlarge.
Map of Sandringham’s 2010 and 2014 boundaries. 2010 boundaries marked as red lines, 2014 boundaries marked as white area. Click to enlarge.

Redistribution
Sandringham gained parts of Highett and Cheltenham from Mordialloc. The Liberal margin was cut from 15.9% to 15.6%.

History
Sandringham was first created for the 1955 election. It has been won by the Liberal Party at all but one election, with the ALP only winning the seat in 1982.

The seat was first won in 1955 by the Liberal Party’s Murray Porter. He became a minister in the Liberal government in 1956, and served as a minister until his retirement in 1970.

He was succeeded by Maxwell Crellin at the 1970 election. He held the seat until 1982, when he lost his seat, defeated by the ALP’s Graham Ihlein.

Ihlein held his seat for one term. Following a redistribution, he contested the seat of Evelyn unsuccessfully, with Sandringham won by the Liberal Party’s David Rea.

Rea held the seat until 1992, when he retired. He was succeeded by Murray Thompson. Thompson was re-elected in 1996, 1999 and 2002.

In 2006, Thompson saw off a challenge from Labor member for the upper house Higinbotham province, Noel Pullen, who was unable to gain preselection for a seat in the reformed upper house.

Murray Thompson was re-elected to a sixth term in 2010.

Candidates

Assessment
Sandringham is a safe Liberal seat.

2010 election result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
Murray Thompson Liberal 20,704 60.90 +8.27 60.31
Robbie Nyaguy Labor 7,313 21.51 -7.85 22.18
Derek Wilson Greens 5,430 15.97 +3.23 15.72
Malcolm Reid Family First 548 1.61 -0.51 1.60
Sex Party 0.10
Democratic Labor 0.03
Other independents 0.05

2010 two-party-preferred result

Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
Murray Thompson Liberal 22,417 65.93 +7.25 65.60
Robbie Nyaguy Labor 11,584 34.07 -7.25 34.40
Polling places in Sandringham at the 2010 Victorian state election. North in orange, South-East in blue, South-West in green. Click to enlarge.
Polling places in Sandringham at the 2010 Victorian state election. North in orange, South-East in blue, South-West in green. Click to enlarge.

Booth breakdown
Booths in Sandringham have been divided into three parts: north, south-east and south-west.

The Liberal Party won a majority of two-party-preferred votes in all three areas, ranging from 61% in the south-east to 71.4% in the south-west.

The Greens polled strongly in Sandringham, ranging from 13.7% in the south-west to 17.6% in the north.

Voter group GRN % LIB 2PP % Total % of votes
South-West 13.70 71.43 9,214 25.94
North 17.59 62.84 8,580 24.15
South-East 16.40 61.04 7,055 19.86
Other votes 15.51 64.90 10,677 30.05
Two-party-preferred votes in Sandringham at the 2010 Victorian state election.
Two-party-preferred votes in Sandringham at the 2010 Victorian state election.
Greens primary votes in Sandringham at the 2010 Victorian state election.
Greens primary votes in Sandringham at the 2010 Victorian state election.