ALP 28.4%
Incumbent MP
Bronwyn Halfpenny, since 2010.
Geography
Northern Melbourne. A majority of Thomastown is contained within Whittlesea council area, with a small part in the Darebin council area. The electorate covers the suburbs of Lalor and Thomastown, and parts of Epping, Reservoir and Wollert.
History
Thomastown was first created for the 1985 election, and has always been held by the ALP.
The seat was first won in 1985 by the ALP’s Beth Gleeson. She held the seat until her death in 1989.
The 1990 Thomastown by-election was won by the ALP’s Peter Batchelor, fighting off a fierce challenge from the Australian Democrats.
Batchelor served as Secretary of the Victorian ALP before he was elected to Parliament. Batchelor held the seat from 1990 to 2010.
Labor candidate Bronwyn Halfpenny won Thomastown in 2010, and she was re-elected in 2014.
Candidates
- Alahna Desiato (Independent)
- Tess Nagorka-Tsindos (Animal Justice)
- Bronwyn Halfpenny (Labor)
- David Thirkettle-Watts (Reason)
- Ibrahim Saba (Independent)
- Gurdawar Singh (Liberal)
- Kath Larkin (Socialists)
- Cynthia Smith (Greens)
- Nikola Stavreski (Independent)
Assessment
Thomastown is Labor’s safest seat in Victoria.
2014 result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Bronwyn Halfpenny | Labor | 22,786 | 66.7 | +3.4 |
| Nitin Gursahani | Liberal | 5,801 | 17.0 | -6.1 |
| Trent Schneider-Johnson | Family First | 2,047 | 6.0 | +1.3 |
| Ian Williamson | Greens | 1,775 | 5.2 | -3.2 |
| Thomas Di Palma | Independent | 1,753 | 5.1 | +5.1 |
| Informal | 2,584 | 7.0 |
2014 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Bronwyn Halfpenny | Labor | 26,611 | 78.4 | +6.8 |
| Nitin Gursahani | Liberal | 7,317 | 21.6 | -6.8 |
Booth breakdown
Booths in Thomastown have been divided into four parts. Epping (in the north), Thomastown (in the south) and Lalor East and Lalor West in between.
Labor won over 79% of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| South-West | 79.2 | 12,202 | 35.7 |
| South-East | 79.5 | 6,691 | 19.6 |
| North | 79.0 | 4,064 | 11.9 |
| Other votes | 75.4 | 4,493 | 13.2 |
| Pre-poll | 77.5 | 6,712 | 19.6 |
Two-party-preferred votes in Niddrie at the 2014 Victorian state election