Southern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight
electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the
Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by
proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...
. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council.
The region comprises the
Legislative Assembly districts of
Albert Park,
Ashwood,
Bentleigh,
Brighton,
Caulfield,
Hawthorn,
Kew,
Malvern,
Oakleigh,
Prahran and
Sandringham. The region covers most of the wealthiest areas of Melbourne, only a few traditional Labor areas (Oakleigh being the only historically safe Labor seat), and one of the four Greens-held seats in the lower house (Prahran).
Members
Returned MLCs by seat
Seats are allocated by
single transferable vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
using
group voting ticket A group voting ticket (GVT) is a shortcut for voters in a preferential voting system, where a voter can indicate support for a list of candidates instead of marking preferences for individual candidates. For multi-member electoral divisions with si ...
s. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity.
Election results
References
External links
Southern Metropolitan Region, Victorian Electoral CommissionSouthern Metropolitan Region, Parliament of Victoria
Electoral regions of Victoria (Australia)
Electoral districts and divisions of Greater Melbourne
{{VictoriaAU-gov-stub