Northern Victoria Region is one of the eight
electoral regions of Victoria, 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
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...
. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
The region comprises the
Legislative Assembly districts of
Benambra,
Bendigo East,
Bendigo West
Bendigo West is an Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It is a
electorate, centred on th ...
,
Eildon,
Euroa
Euroa is a town in the Shire of Strathbogie in the north-east of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census in Australia, census, Euroa's population was 3,116.
The name Euroa comes from an Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal w ...
,
Macedon
Macedonia ( ; , ), also called Macedon ( ), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by the royal ...
,
Mildura
Mildura ( ) is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 at the 2021 census. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point, Merbein and Red ...
,
Murray Plains,
Ovens Valley,
Shepparton and
Yan Yean.
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
A group voting ticket (GVT) is a shortcut for voters in a Ranked voting systems, preferential voting system, where a voter can indicate support for a list of candidates instead of marking preferences for individual candidates. For multi-member ele ...
s. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity.
Election results
References
External links
Northern Victoria Region Profile, Victorian Electoral Commission
Electoral regions of Victoria (state)
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