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Announced candidates · 4

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Key dates · Victoria 2026 · from the Victorian Electoral Commission

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Last election · 2022 State election

Elected: DE VIETRI, Gabrielle (Australian Greens).

First preferences
CandidatePartyVotes%
DE VIETRI, GabrielleAustralian Greens13,77134.66%
O'DWYER, LaurenAustralian Labor Party - Victorian Branch13,03732.81%
MOON, LucasLiberal7,45618.77%
COWEN, JeremyFiona Patten's Reason Party1,8304.61%
WARD, RozVictorian Socialists1,8284.60%
VIGGERS, LisAnimal Justice Party9342.35%
FREIVERTS, MarkusFamily First Victoria4581.15%
HO, Meca—4171.05%
After the distribution of preferences
CandidatePartyVotes%
DE VIETRI, GabrielleAustralian Greens22,77257.32%
O'DWYER, LaurenAustralian Labor Party - Victorian Branch16,95942.68%

Enrolment 48,305 · formal 39,731 · informal 1,381 · total 41,112

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.

Workplace & industrial relations

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

8 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Sarah McKenzieLabor own statement

Sarah McKenzie says "Working from home works for families."

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Harrison Rindfleish.

Gender & LGBTQ+ policy

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting news report

Greens MP for Richmond (since 2022). She is openly queer and is described as the first openly LGBTQ woman elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly; she uses she/her and they/them pronouns. She serves as a Victorian Greens spokesperson on LGBTIQA+ rights and has been a public advocate for trans and gender-diverse people and stronger anti-vilification protections. In October 2023, as Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson, she opposed Moira Deeming's motion for an inquiry into gender-affirming care, saying it would 'stoke the flames of transphobia and hate.'

1 recorded vote on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Drugs & law and order

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting own statement

Greens MLA for Richmond. De Vietri welcomed the 2023 decision to make the North Richmond medically supervised injecting room ongoing, saying 'it saves lives and provides pathways to better health, housing and employment for people who use injecting drugs,' while pushing for expanded eligibility and additional injecting rooms to relieve pressure on the North Richmond site.

20 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Native forest logging

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · 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: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Housing & planning

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

9 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Chris DiteOther / minor party own statement

Says public housing is still under threat, having been involved in campaigns to stop the 'managed decline' and sell off of public housing, and pledges to use the position "to actually win the needs and demands of workers and residents in Richmond".

Sarah McKenzieLabor own statement

On the North Richmond housing estate, Sarah McKenzie says she "wrote to the Housing Minister seeking clarification and advocating for residents", and that if elected she "will work with residents and residents’ groups to make sure the people who live here are at the centre of every decision about the future of their homes".

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Harrison Rindfleish.

Health

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

3 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Chris DiteOther / minor party own statement

Says health services are still under threat and has been heavily involved in organising the protests, public meetings and community pickets against the cuts to cohealth.

Sarah McKenzieLabor own statement

Sarah McKenzie says "The Carroll Labor Government is saving Cohealth’s Collingwood site" with a redevelopment that "will also deliver 69 new social homes", and "I am so proud of the Cohealth campaign from local people who know why community health matters."

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Harrison Rindfleish.

Education

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

1 recorded vote on this issue on their record

Sarah McKenzieLabor own statement

Sarah McKenzie says Spensley Street Primary School "will receive a much needed upgrade" and "Kids deserve dignified spaces that support their education and growth."

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Harrison Rindfleish.

Transport & infrastructure

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

3 recorded votes on this issue on their record

Chris DiteOther / minor party own statement

Was one of the main organisers of the 2013-14 campaign against the East West Link toll road project, which he says forced Labor to change its position on the project and prioritise public transport.

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Economic nationalism

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

1 recorded vote on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Economy & tax

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

13 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Voluntary assisted dying

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Religious freedom

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Freedom of speech

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

4 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Gambling & gaming reform

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

4 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Hunting (duck & native birds)

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

First Nations & treaty

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Integrity & anti-corruption

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

8 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Energy

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

11 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

Environment & water

Gabrielle de VietriGreens · sitting

No statement on file.

2 recorded votes on this issue on their record

No sourced position on record: Charles Aponso, Chris Dite, Sarah McKenzie, Harrison Rindfleish.

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

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