Division of Melbourne

The Division of Melbourne is an Australian Electoral Division of Victoria. It was one of the first 75 divisions set up for the first federal election in 1901. It includes the City of Melbourne and the suburbs of Abbotsford, Ascot Vale, Carlton, Clifton Hill, Colllingwood, Docklands, North Melbourne, West Melbourne, East Melbourne, Fitzroy, Fitzroy North, Flemington, Kensington, Parkville, Richmond, and parts of Brunswick and Brunswick East. It was named after the city of Melbourne, which was named in 1838 for Lord Melbourne, the British Prime Minister.

Melbourne Australian House of Representatives Division
300px Division of Melbourne (green) in Victoria
Created	1901
Namesake	Melbourne
Electors	102,881 (2010)
Area	53 km2 (20.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Sir Malcolm McEacharn	Protectionist	1901–1904
	William Maloney	Labor	1904–1940
	Arthur Calwell	Labor	1940–1972
	Ted Innes	Labor	1972–1983
	Gerry Hand	Labor	1983–1993
	Lindsay Tanner	Labor	1993–2010
	Adam Bandt	Greens	2010–2025

Arthur Calwell was the Leader of the Opposition. Lindsay Tanner was Minister for Finance and Deregulation in the first Rudd Government.

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Melbourne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Greens	Adam Bandt	47,883	49.62	+1.58
	Labor	Keir Paterson	24,155	25.03	+3.91
	Liberal	James Damches	14,660	15.19	−6.01
	Victorian Socialists	Colleen Bolger	3,156	3.27	+3.27
	United Australia	Justin Borg	1,709	1.77	+0.60
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Peppard	1,596	1.65	+1.65
	Animal Justice	Bruce Poon	1,316	1.36	−0.68
	Independent	Scott Robson	1,094	1.13	+1.13
	One Nation	Walter Stragan	937	0.97	+0.97
Total formal votes			96,506	96.99	+0.01
Informal votes			2,993	3.01	−0.01
Turnout			99,499	86.98	−2.64
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Labor	Keir Paterson	75,191	77.91	+10.11
	Liberal	James Damches	21,315	22.09	−10.11
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Greens	Adam Bandt	58,050	60.15	−12.44
	Labor	Keir Paterson	38,456	39.85	+39.85
	Template:Australian politics/name/Greens hold		Swing	–12.44

Division Of Melbourne Media

• Location of the Australian federal electoral division of Melbourne (dark green) in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria as of the 2022 Australian federal election. Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia Limited licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)

• Division of Melbourne 2025.svg

  Location of the federal electoral division (dark green) of the Australian House of Representatives in the Melbourne metropolitan area of Victoria as of the 2025 Australian federal election. Divisions shapefile from Australian Statistical Geography Standard

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  The city of Melbourne, the division's namesake

• Malcolm McEacharn.jpg

  Portrait of Malcolm McEacharn, Australian politician.

• William Maloney1.jpg

  This image shows a photograph of William Maloney, taken before 1910. Under Australian law, all photographs taken in Australia before 1955 are in the public domain. This image is in the public domain under both Australian copyright law and US copyright law.

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  Arthur Calwell in 1966

• Ted Innes.jpg

  Australian politician Ted Innes, Labor MHR for Melbourne.

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  Placeholder for use in Australian election infoboxes where the party leader does not have an image available (or the party does not have a leader) or where a candidate photo is not available

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  Lindsay Tanner at Mosman Library (cropped)

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  Adam Bandt in 2021

Other websites

• Division of Melbourne – Australian Electoral Commission
• Adam Bandt's website