All of Kew & Hawthorn (East of Burke Rd), All of the City of Yarra south of the Eastern Freeway, all of Stonnington plus Southbank and the Domain part of South Yarra
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I’ve found my paper with the stats written out and i’ve mistakenly included Southbank and the Collingwood areas for they would put it over quoter.

I also wouldn’t mind seeing all of Port and South Melbourne placed in the seat of Melbourne

I’m inclined to think Melbourne Ports should move back towards the city via Prahran and South Yarra while Caulfield move into a new Higgins or into a seat running though the remainder of the City of Glen Irea.

I also feel Hawthorn and Kew have more in common with Richmond, South Yarra and Malvern than Balwyn, ignoring the Local Government Boundary

I don’t expect this to happen but I feel Coburg and Brunswick if possible should be grouped with Essendon.

Other possible redistributions might see Dunkley pushed further south into Mt Martha, this would follow the patten of the past two previous redistribution’s, but would have the effect of making the seat nearly unwinnable for the ALP.

Once I put together a pretend seat which may be acceptable in terms of population I wonder who would win the seat.

All of Kew & Hawthorn (East of Burke Rd), All of the City of Yarra south of the Eastern Freeway, all of Stonnington plus Southbank and the Domain part of South Yarra

The City of Melbourne extends south of the Yarra and it could definitely be argued that South Bank has community of interest with the CBD. But Melbourne itself is overenrolled.

If somebody could tell me how I can insert a graph into this text box, I have formulated one which shows the relative deviation from the mean of Victorian seats over the last 4 years. I found it quite enlightening.

I agree. The forecasts for Lyne are for rapid population growth. Having just visited the Hastings/ Port Macquarie LGA, I’m not surprised.

Going on current enrolment figures Lyne may appear to be underenrolled. However NSW has only just had a redistribution so this would reflect that this area is projected to grow quickly – and that area of the north coast is.

Yep, the ACT is vastly underrepresented. The seat of Canberra has about the same no. of voters as the entire NT.

In NSW, the seat of Lyne is underpopulated. The ALP could ‘lean on’ the AEC to abolish Lyne, rather than one of its own seats in metro Sydney. I’m only being half-serious here – this particular re-distribution would cause all sorts of knock-on problems for the neighbouring seats, especially along the coast. Also, all sorts of urban development is going on inside Lyne, so it may catch up in terms of population.

Kooyong, Chisholm, Deakin, Hotham are unpopulated.

Blackburnpseph writes why not cross the Yarra.

This has been done several times in the past

Diamond Valley: Use to include areas around Ivanhoe and Bulleen
Melbourne Ports: Once ran from Port Melbourne/South Melbourne across the bay though Williamstown
Yarra: changed a few times covering Richmond and Hawthorn and at one point I believe had a small part of Toorak yet Jim Caines was never threatened