Northern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight
electoral regions of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of the Australian State of Victoria, are elected from eight multi-member electorates called regions. The Legislative Council has 40 members, five from each of the e ...
, Australia, which elects five members to the
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament ...
(also referred to as the upper house) by
proportional representation
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. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
The region comprises the
Legislative Assembly districts of
Broadmeadows,
Brunswick,
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club, in the Australian Football League
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
United Kin ...
,
Greenvale,
Kalkallo,
Melbourne
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,
Northcote,
Pascoe Vale,
Preston,
Richmond
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* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, California, a city in the United States
* Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ...
and
Thomastown.
Members
Returned MLCs by seat
Seats are allocated by
single transferable vote
The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vot ...
using
group voting ticket
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s. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity.
Election results
References
External links
Northern Metropolitan Region Profile, Victorian Electoral Commission
{{Electoral regions of Victoria
Electoral regions of Victoria (state)
Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne