Candidates of the 1985 Victorian state election explained

The 1985 Victorian state election was held on 2 March 1985.

Seat changes

A number of members contested different seats to the ones they held:

• A group of Liberal MLCs contested Legislative Assembly seats:
  • Boronia MLC Gracia Baylor contested Warrandyte.
  • Ballarat MLC Clive Bubb contested Ballarat South.
  • Western MLC Digby Crozier contested Portland.
  • Monash MLC Don Hayward contested Prahran.
• Liberal MLA Bill Ebery (Midlands) contested the Legislative Council province of North Western.
• Labor MLA Bob Miller (Prahran) contested the Legislative Council province of Monash.
• A number of MLAs contested different seats:
  • Ascot Vale Labor MLA Tom Edmunds contested Pascoe Vale.
  • Bendigo Labor MLA David Kennedy contested Bendigo West.
  • Dandenong Labor MLA Rob Jolly contested Doveton.
  • Dromana Labor MLA David Hassett contested Mornington.
  • Evelyn Labor MLA Max McDonald contested Whittlesea.
  • Frankston Labor MLA Jane Hill contested Frankston North.
  • Geelong East Labor MLA Graham Ernst contested Bellarine.
  • Geelong West Labor MLA Hayden Shell contested Geelong.
  • Glenhuntly Labor MLA Gerard Vaughan contested Clayton.
  • Glenroy Labor MLA Jack Culpin contested Broadmeadows.
  • Heatherton Labor MLA Peter Spyker contested Mentone.
  • Noble Park Labor MLA Terry Norris contested Dandenong.
  • Sandringham Labor MLA Graham Ihlein contested Evelyn.
  • Westernport Liberal MLA Alan Brown contested Gippsland West.

Retiring Members

Labor

• John Wilton MLA (Broadmeadows)
• Glyde Butler MLC (Thomastown)
• Eric Kent MLC (Chelsea)

Liberal

• Cec Burgin MLA (Polwarth)
• Walter Jona MLA (Hawthorn)
• Don McKellar MLA (Portland)
• Jeannette Patrick MLA (Brighton)
• Don Saltmarsh MLA (Wantirna)
• Peter Block MLC (Nunawading)
• Vasey Houghton MLC (Templestowe)
• John Radford MLC (Bendigo)

Legislative Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Other candidates
			Bunna Walsh	Barry Semmens
				Tom Evans
			Frank Sheehan
		Frank Pederick		Jim Ramsay
			Graham Ernst	Hugh McKenzie
		Grant Triffett	Leonard Crocombe		Pat McNamara
		Virginia Coghill		Lou Lieberman
		John Reid			Barry McNaught
			David Kennedy	Alexander Sandner	Reginald Holt
		Doug Newton				Ray Nilsen (Ind)
			Gordon Hockley	Peter Norman
		Philip Staindl		Rob Maclellan
			Margaret Ray			Peter Allan (Ind)
		Leslie Heimann
			Jack Culpin	Mark Sinclair
			Tom Roper	Gregory Dinneen
		John Scomparin
			John Cain	Alistair Urquhart		Frank Penhalluriack (WTP)
		Eric Hobsbawn		Jeff Kennett
			Ian Cathie	Bruce Bowie
		Jack Diamond		Ted Tanner
			Gerard Vaughan	Alan Sandbach
			Peter Gavin	Antonino Boeti
			Terry Norris	Ian Fotheringham
				George Grech
				Helen Hurley
		William Poppins		Morris Williams
			Rob Jolly	Matthew Starr
		Allison Ogden
			Barry Rowe	Brian Dodgson
		Graham Ihlein				Gaye Gelly (Ind)
			Robert Fordham	Hugh Cameron
		John Madden		John Richardson
			Jane Hill	Robert Garnett		Judy Hale (Ind)
		Geoffrey Holland
			Hayden Shell	Clive Pugh
			Neil Trezise	John Lucas
		Clifford Harding	David McInnes		Bruce Evans
		Max Semken			Tom Wallace
		Geoffrey Bull		Alan Brown	William Ronald
		Douglas Bishop		Tom Reynolds
		John Candappa
			Pauline Toner	Andrew Cove
		Jill Eastwood
		Tony Sheehan
			George Seitz	Graham Anderson
		Annamaria Dierer		Prue Sibree
			Steve Crabb	Jill Hall		Thomas Tyrer (PTP)
		William Albon	John Mann		Bill McGrath
		Max Dumais		Geoff Leigh
			Keith Remington	Peter Jones		Janet Walk (PTP)
			Peter Spyker	Bill Templeton
		Lindsay Leake	Diana Duck		Milton Whiting
			John Harrowfield	Bruce Camfield
			Neil Pope	Raymond Yates
		David Hassett
			Valerie Callister	Graeme Bond	Terie Porter	Geoffrey Francis (Ind)
		Jill Milthorpe	Bill Hunter		Ken Jasper
		Robin Matthews		John Delzoppo	Julia Ettery	John McNamara (Ind)
			Jack Simpson	Mark Pallett
			Frank Wilkes	William Hamilton
			Race Mathews	Norman Kennedy		Antonios Pashos (Ind)
			Tom Edmunds	Vincenzo D'Aquino
		Jeffery Rootes			David Seymour
		William Sharrock			James Patterson
		Hendrik van Leeuwen				Norman Long (Ind) Alan Parker (PTP)
			Carl Kirkwood	Mark Leaman
			Jim Simmonds	Rae Kennett
			Theo Sidiropoulos	John Sevior
			Kay Setches	Michael Dobson
				Tom Austin
		Denise MacDonald	John Adams		Eddie Hann
				Martin Power
			Andrew McCutcheon	Richard Stevenson
		David Wauchope	Alan Fitzgerald		Peter Ross-Edwards
		Harry Naylor		Harley Dickinson
			Eddie Micallef	Therese Marley
			Bill Fogarty	Aldous Hicks
		Ronald Stanton	Ian Ray		Barry Steggall
		David Gray				Edward Hawthorn (Ind)
				Adam Barr
				Karen Dettmann
			Lou Hill			Timothy Connellan (Ind)
		Peter Cox	Adam Kempton
			Ken Coghill	Thomas Hudson		Robert Wolstenholme (WTP)
			Max McDonald	Haydn Gregson
			Gordon Stirling	David Allan

Legislative Council

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Province	Held by	Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Democrats candidates	Other candidates
		Roger Lowrey		Dick de Fegely		William Ross
				Gerald Clarke
		Peter Fennell		Fred Grimwade			Brent Melville (CTA)
				Michael Herbst
			David White	Pamela Philpot
		Bernard Ziegenbein		Mark Birrell		Margaret Cole
				John Ferwerda
			Rod Mackenzie	Joss Manders		Laurence Levy
		Reginald Smith		Dick Long	Anthony Stewart	Catherine Stewart	Ben Buckley (Ind) Cornelius Gordyn (CTA)
		Denis Oakley		Robert Lawson		Anton Hermann
				David Gandolfo
			Evan Walker	Vincent Volpe		Simon James
			Giovanni Sgro	Brett Pullyblank
			Joan Coxsedge	Matthew Matich		Johannus Paas
						David Collyer
		Ewan Paterson	Stephen Blair				Michael Else (Ind)
		Phillip Eddy			Ken Wright
						Michael Nardella
		Bora Eric		Alan Hunt		Irene Fisher
		Gary Greenway				Kenneth Peak
			Cyril Kennedy			Jeffrey McAlpine	William Watson (CTA)
		Brian Clarke	Henry Wyld

References

• Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive