Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria and sits within the Northern Victoria Region. It is a 37,529 km2 rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale.
Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of Labor control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the Liberal Party, with journalist Craig Bildstien winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent Russell Savage. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide.
Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party.
Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.
Members for Mildura Member Party Term Albert Allnutt Country Progressive 1927–1930 Country 1930–1945 Independent 1945 Louis Garlick Labor 1945–1947 Nathaniel Barclay Country 1947–1952 Alan Lind Labor 1952–1955 Nathaniel Barclay Country 1955–1962 Milton Whiting Country 1962–1975 National Country 1975–1982 National 1982–1988 Craig Bildstien Liberal 1988–1996 Russell Savage Independent 1996–2006 Peter Crisp National 2006–2018 Ali Cupper Independent 2018–2022 Jade Benham National 2022–present
Election results
References
District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission