The electoral district of Buninyong was an electoral district of the

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in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election. It largely covered the area of the abolished district of Ballarat East, covering south and southeast suburbs of Ballarat as well as the rural areas to the south and east of the city. It included the suburbs of

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, Mount Clear,

Buninyong Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, L ...

and

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. It also included the rural towns between Linton, Corindhap, Lethbridge, Ballan and

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. Buninyong was first contested at the 2014 election, and was won by the incumbent Labor MP for abolished Ballarat East, Geoff Howard. The seat was abolished by the Electoral Boundaries Commission ahead of the 2022 election and largely replaced by the electoral district of

Members

Election results

References

External links

District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission
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