The electoral district of Yan Yean is an electoral district of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
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.
[
] It is located on the fringes of
Melbourne's northern
suburbs
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and contains the towns of
Hurstbridge,
Plenty,
Whittlesea and
Yan Yean.
Yan Yean was created for the
1992 election and has always been held by
Labor
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, although usually marginally. The seat became notionally
Liberal after the
Craigieburn end of the electorate was removed due to population growth in a redistribution prior to the
2002 election, leading to
Andre Haermeyer's decision to contest
Kororoit instead. Nevertheless, Labor's
Danielle Green easily won the seat, winning with a margin of 9.5% over her Liberal opponent, future party leader
Matthew Guy
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.
Green held on to the seat in 2006 and 2010, however with swings against her. After another redistribution ahead of the
2014 election made the seat notionally Liberal again, Green managed a swing to her this time and was reelected. In
2018
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, she was reelected to a fifth term in parliament with a 13-point swing in her favor on the 2PP. She retired at the
2022 election however, and Labor kept her seat with the election of
Lauren Kathage, a community worker. The 2018 swing to Labor was in large part erased in 2022.
Members for Yan Yean
Election results
See also
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Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
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List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly:
* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859
* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1859–1861
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References
External links
Electorate profile: Yan Yean District, Victorian Electoral Commission
1992 establishments in Australia
Electoral districts of Victoria (state)
City of Whittlesea
Shire of Mitchell
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