Electoral district of Wendouree

Wendouree
VictoriaLegislative Assembly
Location of Wendouree (dark green) in Victoria
StateVictoria
Created2014
MPJuliana Addison
PartyLabor
NamesakeWendouree
Electors43,575 (2018)
Area64 km2 (24.7 sq mi)
DemographicRegional city
Electorates around Wendouree:
Ripon Ripon Ripon
Ripon Wendouree Eureka
Ripon Ripon Eureka

The electoral district of Wendouree is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election.[1]

It largely covers the area of the abolished district of Ballarat West, covering north, southwest and west suburbs of Ballarat, including Wendouree, Alfredton, Delacombe, Redan, Ballarat North, Invermay, Black Hill and Brown Hill, as well as much of the CBD. The south suburb of Sebastopol was moved to the adjoining district of Buninyong.[2]

The abolished seat of Ballarat West was held by Labor MP Sharon Knight. While the redistribution made Wendouree notionally Liberal-held, Knight won the new seat with a swing to Labor.

In the 2021 boundary redistribution, Wendouree gained the suburb of Sebastopol while losing the suburbs of Brown Hill and Ballarat East, with the new boundaries being based on the Western Freeway with the district of Ripon and the Yarrowee River with the district of Eureka.

  1. ^ "Summary of Changes". Victorian Electoral Boundary Commission. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Map of Wendouree District" (PDF). Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission.