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    A by-election was held for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Melbourne on 21 July 2012. This was triggered by the resignation of former minister...
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  • by-election for the seat of Port Melbourne in the Victorian Legislative Assembly was held on Saturday 15 March 1952. The by-election was triggered by...
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    North Melbourne. The Melbourne and Geelong Corporations Act 1938 allowed for three councillors for each of the eleven wards, with a general election held...
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    The 2014 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 29 November 2014, was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative...
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    at the 2010 Victorian state election. Patten contested the 2012 Melbourne state by-election, coming third out of 16 candidates, receiving 6.6 per cent...
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    Henry William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig politician who served as the Home Secretary and twice...
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    Victorian Greens (category Australian Greens by state)
    primary vote of 11.21% with all three MLCs re-elected. At the 2012 Melbourne state by-election, the Greens increased their two-candidate-preferred vote from...
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  • impressive results which failed to deliver wins, such as the 2012 Melbourne state by-election, where the Greens received the highest number of first preference...
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  • Australian Christians (political party) (category Political parties in Victoria (state))
    contested the 2012 Melbourne state by-election, receiving about 1% of the vote. The party contested the 2013 Western Australian state election, receiving...
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    Trams at Melbourne tram stop 14, 'Arts Precinct' recorded 15 September 2018 Problems playing this file? See media help. The Melbourne tramway network is...
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    The Melbourne rail network is a metropolitan suburban and freight rail system serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The metropolitan rail...
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    Phillip, and in particular within the metropolitan area of Greater Melbourne, Victoria's state capital and largest city and also Australia's second-largest...
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    The 2010 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 27 November 2010, was for the 57th Parliament of Victoria. The election was to elect all 88 members...
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    following approval by the Council of the University of Melbourne in October of that year. Its first elections were held in October 2005 under the transitional...
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    Adam Bandt (category Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Melbourne)
    Australian Greens and federal MP for Melbourne. Previously, he served as co-deputy leader of the Greens from 2012 to 2015 and 2017 to 2020. He was elected...
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    owned by VicTrack on behalf of the State Government, and is leased to Public Transport Victoria which then sub-leases them to Metro Trains Melbourne. The...
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    Daniel Andrews (category Politicians from Melbourne)
    recorded substantial swings in Melbourne's eastern suburbs; as the ABC's election analyst Antony Green put it, eastern Melbourne was swept up in a "band of...
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    established in 1922 by the Victorian state government, produced a report in 1929 that recommended a new underground railway in central Melbourne running via Exhibition...
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    could be engineered to successfully avoid the main Melbourne sewer. By November, with the state election approaching, the rail tunnel had become a major...
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  • regained power in the 2018 state election and in April 2017 the Lonsdale Consortium, the private operator of the Port of Melbourne, said the entire western...
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    constructed throughout Melbourne's history, but the rail network has remained largely radial. The Victorian Labor state government led by then Premier Daniel...
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    representative of the financial wealth and pride that the city of Melbourne and state of Victoria had in the 1870s. Throughout the 20th century smaller...
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    Jeff Kennett (category Politicians from Melbourne)
    actually picked up modest swings in Melbourne's outer suburbs, which have traditionally decided most state elections. Several negative trends (for the Liberals)...
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    31, 2012). "Six Brevard schools score big with state". Florida Today. Melbourne, Florida. pp. 1A. Archived from the original on February 2, 2012. Retrieved...
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    state and territory political parties in Australia. As of the 2022 federal election, the Greens are the third largest political party in Australia by...
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  • de-registered by the Australian Electoral Commission. The party remains registered for territorial elections in the Australian Capital Territory And for state elections...
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  • registered at the state and national level, a number of political parties and groups compete solely in local government elections in Australia. Some...
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  • Berhan Ahmed (category University of Melbourne alumni)
    independent candidate for the 2012 Melbourne state by-election. In 2012, Ahmed ran for the Mayor of the City of Melbourne, polling 2.45%. Robert Doyle...
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    John Pesutto (category University of Melbourne alumni)
    in the 2018 Victorian state election, Pesutto took up an honorary post in the school of government at the University of Melbourne, established his own...
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    Matthew Guy (category Politicians from Melbourne)
    November 2018 state election. The Liberal/National Coalition suffered large swings against it and lost several seats in Eastern Melbourne to the Labor...
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