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Announced candidates · 5

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Key dates · Victoria 2026 · from the Victorian Electoral Commission

  • Tue 3 Nov, 8 pmEnrolment closesYou need to be correctly enrolled by 8 pm on Tuesday 3 November to vote.2026 state election ↗
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The candidates on this site are those announced so far. The commission confirms the ballot after nominations close.

How to vote here · from the Victorian Electoral Commission

Last election · 2022 State election

Elected: CIANFLONE, Anthony (Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch).

First preferences
CandidatePartyVotes%
CIANFLONE, AnthonyAustralian Labor Party - Victorian Branch15,61138.76%
PANOPOULOS, AngelicaAustralian Greens9,03422.43%
WRIGHT, TomLiberal8,46121.01%
HAH, MadaleineVictorian Socialists2,2285.53%
BOLTON, Sue—1,6894.19%
GLOVER, MargeeFiona Patten's Reason Party1,2813.18%
CIMBARO, RichardFamily First Victoria1,0802.68%
ADAMS, ElizabethAnimal Justice Party8892.21%
After the distribution of preferences
CandidatePartyVotes%
CIANFLONE, AnthonyAustralian Labor Party - Victorian Branch20,95052.02%
PANOPOULOS, AngelicaAustralian Greens19,32347.98%

Enrolment 48,584 · formal 40,273 · informal 2,249 · total 42,522

As the Victorian Electoral Commission published it (VEC results ↗). Parties are those the candidates stood for then; a member may have changed party since. The 2021 redivision of Victoria's State electoral boundaries came into effect on 1 November 2022 and will remain in place until the writ for the 2030 State election is issued, unless triggered sooner. Electoral Boundaries Commission ↗

Where they stand, issue by issue

Each entry is that person's own stated view, with its sources. The badge says what kind of source backs it — official record, own statement, news report or encyclopedia — which describes the evidence, not how much we believe it. Nothing is totalled or ranked; recorded votes are counted only to point to the member's record, where each is listed. See methodology.

Foreign policy & aid

Jacob AndrewarthaOther / minor party own statement

Campaigns for Palestine solidarity; his party credits him as central to organising protests in Merri-bek over the war in Gaza.

No sourced position on record: Anthony Cianflone, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Welfare & social services

Angelica PanopoulosGreens own statement

After meeting financial counsellors in Coburg, Angelica Panopoulos says "an increase in funding of these services are needed" as well as "systemic reform in areas like housing & groceries".

No sourced position on record: Anthony Cianflone, Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Yasemin Shamsili.

Native forest logging

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting official record

Voted aye on 30 May 2024 on an amendment moved during the Legislative Assembly's consideration of the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Bill 2024, which repealed the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 following the cessation of native forest logging on 1 January 2024. The question was 'That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question' (Legislative Assembly, 30 May 2024; Ayes 53, Noes 24; agreed to): an aye vote kept the words the amendment proposed to omit. It was a vote on the amendment, not on the bill.

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

First Nations & treaty

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Angelica PanopoulosGreens news report

As Merri-bek Mayor, Angelica Panopoulos said "January 26 is a painful day for many in our community, and isn’t the right date to celebrate."

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Yasemin Shamsili.

Housing & planning

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

9 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Jacob AndrewarthaOther / minor party own statement

Campaigns for public housing.

Angelica PanopoulosGreens news report

Nominates affordable housing as a key issue in Pascoe Vale.

Yasemin ShamsiliOther / minor party own statement

Says "secure, genuinely affordable housing should be a right, not a commodity", and opposes public land and housing being transferred to developers and redevelopments that displace residents.

No sourced position on record: Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan.

Health

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

3 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Yasemin ShamsiliOther / minor party own statement

Has campaigned against cuts to health services across Melbourne's inner north.

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos.

Education

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

1 recorded vote on this issue on their record

Angelica PanopoulosGreens news report

Names public education funding as her personal priority: "when you have connected schools, you also have the infrastructure around that, like the protected bike lanes, like the safe walking paths, like the parks near the schools".

Yasemin ShamsiliOther / minor party own statement

Says "chronic underfunding" has left Victorian schools the lowest funded in the country and teachers the lowest paid, and that Victorian teachers are preparing to take strike action because neither Labor nor the Liberals are willing to fund public education properly; says working-class people have to fight collectively to win the services they deserve.

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan.

Transport & infrastructure

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

3 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Angelica PanopoulosGreens news report

Nominates safer roads and better public transport among key issues in Pascoe Vale.

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Yasemin Shamsili.

Environment & water

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Jacob AndrewarthaOther / minor party own statement

Campaigns for climate justice.

Angelica PanopoulosGreens news report

Names stronger action on climate change as one of her key campaign issues.

No sourced position on record: Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Yasemin Shamsili.

Economic nationalism

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

1 recorded vote on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Economy & tax

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

13 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Workplace & industrial relations

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

8 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Voluntary assisted dying

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Gender & LGBTQ+ policy

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

1 recorded vote on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Religious freedom

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Freedom of speech

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

4 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Drugs & law and order

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

20 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Gambling & gaming reform

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

4 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Hunting (duck & native birds)

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Integrity & anti-corruption

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

8 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

Energy

Anthony CianfloneLabor · sitting

No statement on file.

11 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Jacob Andrewartha, Kathrine Ashton, Andrew Forehan, Angelica Panopoulos, Yasemin Shamsili.

No one here has a sourced position on record on: abortion & reproductive policy, sex work decriminalisation, nuclear & uranium, animal welfare.

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