Electoral district of Frankston

Frankston Victoria—Legislative Assembly
File:VIC Frankston District 2014.png Location of Frankston (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Dates current	1967–1985, 1992–present
MP	Paul Edbrooke
Party	Labor
Electors	41,747 (2014)
Area	39 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan
Coordinates

The Electoral district of Frankston is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It currently includes the suburbs of Frankston and Frankston South south east of Melbourne.

The electorate was first created prior to the 1967 election and the Liberal Party held the seat until the Cain landslide of 1982. Population increases, however, meant the seat was abolished in 1985 and replaced by two electorates—Frankston South and Frankston North.

In 1992, Frankston South was replaced mostly by a recreated Frankston. It became very safe for the Liberal Party, who won it with margins well over 10%.

However the adjoining Labor-held seat of Frankston East—which had been created mostly out of the old Frankston North—was abolished prior to the 2002 election and much of its territory was incorporated into the seat. The old Frankston had a comfortably safe Liberal majority of 10.7 percent, but the redistribution reduced it to a quite marginal 3.2 percent. Labor's Alistair Harkness won the seat on a large swing, part of the Labor landslide at the 2002 election. He was returned in the 2006 election with a reduced majority, but was defeated in 2010 by Geoff Shaw.

Members for Frankston

First incarnation (1967–1985)
Member		Party	Term
	Edward Meagher	Liberal	1967–1976
	Graeme Weideman	Liberal	1976–1982
	Jane Hill	Labor	1982–1985
Second incarnation (1992–present)
Member		Party	Term
	Graeme Weideman	Liberal	1992–1996
	Andrea McCall	Liberal	1996–2002
	Alistair Harkness	Labor	2002–2010
	Geoff Shaw	Liberal	2010–2013
		Independent	2013–2014
	Paul Edbrooke	Labor	2014–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Frankston

Victorian state election, 2014: Frankston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sean Armistead	12,542	35.8	−9.4
	Labor	Paul Edbrooke	12,241	35.0	−2.9
	Independent	Geoff Shaw	4,514	12.9	+12.9
	Greens	Jeanette Swain	2,790	8.0	−0.7
	Sex Party	Jamie Miller	972	2.8	+0.5
	Family First	Paul Mason	415	1.2	−0.4
	Independent	Jerome Breen	311	0.9	+0.9
	Christians	Anthony Wallace	308	0.9	+0.9
	Rise Up Australia	Lin Tregenza	212	0.6	+0.6
	Independent	Reade Smith	179	0.5	+0.5
	People Power Victoria	Alan Nicholls	158	0.5	+0.5
	Independent	Joseph Toscano	140	0.4	+0.4
	Independent	Mervyn Vogt	125	0.4	+0.4
	Independent	Marianne Tootell	87	0.2	+0.2
Total formal votes			34,994	91.1	−4.0
Informal votes			3,410	8.9	+4.0
Turnout			38,404	92.0	+0.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Paul Edbrooke	17,665	50.5	+0.9
	Liberal	Sean Armistead	17,329	49.5	−0.9
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+0.9

External links

• Electorate profile: Frankston District, Victorian Electoral Commission