ALP 12.2%
Incumbent MP
Colin Brooks, since 2006.
Geography
Northern Melbourne. Bundoora covers parts of Banyule, Darebin and Whittlesea councils, and the suburbs of Bundoora, Kingsbury and Watsonia and parts of Greensborough, Macleod, Mill Park and Yallambie.
History
The electoral district of Bundoora was first created prior to the 1976 election, and has always been held by the ALP.
The seat was first won in 1976 by John Cain Jr, son of the former Labor Premier. Cain was elected Labor leader in 1981, and led the party to victory at the 1982 election. Cain won re-election in 1985 and 1988. Cain resigned as Premier in 1990, and retired at the 1992 election.
In 1992, Bundoora was won by the ALP’s Sherryl Garbutt. Garbutt had been elected in the 1989 Greensborough by-election, but that seat was abolished in the redistribution before the 1992 election.
Garbutt was promoted to the Labor frontbench after their 1992 election loss, and became a minister in the Bracks government in 1999.
She retired at the 2006 election. Justin Madden, the former footballer who served as a Minister in the Legislative Council, was originally preselected to fill the seat, with his upper house seat slated to be abolished by Legislative Council reforms. Madden found another upper house seat, and the ALP preselected former Banyule councillor Colin Brooks, who won the seat in 2006.
Colin Brooks was re-elected in 2010 and 2014.
Candidates
- Clement Stanyon (Greens)
- Jenny Mulholland (Liberal)
- Colin Brooks (Labor)
- Bryce Baker (Reason)
- Jacob Andrewartha (Socialists)
- Rodney Whitfield (Animal Justice)
Assessment
Bundoora is a safe Labor seat.
2014 result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Colin Brooks | Labor | 18,628 | 52.7 | +2.6 |
| Amita Gill | Liberal | 11,822 | 33.4 | -0.1 |
| Clement Stanyon | Greens | 3,592 | 10.2 | +1.0 |
| James Widdowson | Family First | 1,338 | 3.8 | +0.3 |
| Informal | 1,682 | 4.5 |
2014 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Colin Brooks | Labor | 22,035 | 62.2 | +1.3 |
| Amita Gill | Liberal | 13,376 | 37.8 | -1.3 |
Booth breakdown
Booths in Bundoora have been divided into three parts: east, north-west and south-west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 59.7% in the east to 69.7% in the north-west.
The Greens primary vote ranged from 7.7% in the north-west to 12% in the east.
| Voter group | GRN prim % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| East | 12.0 | 59.7 | 9,738 | 27.5 |
| South-West | 9.4 | 64.1 | 7,801 | 22.0 |
| North-West | 7.7 | 69.7 | 2,978 | 8.4 |
| Other votes | 11.3 | 61.5 | 5,700 | 16.1 |
| Pre-poll | 8.8 | 61.3 | 9,163 | 25.9 |
Election results in Bundoora at the 2014 Victorian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and Greens primary votes.
The Greens actually won a booth that overlaps with this electorate at the Batman byelection.
If Greens even remotely suspected that Liberals would direct preferences their way, they could eat into very safe seats like this one which are unlikely to have received much electioneering from either major.
Liberal candidate Jenny Mulholland is well-known in this area, having served on council for 16 years.
Won’t be anywhere near enough to win the seat from Labor, but a good choice nonetheless.