2022 Victorian state election


The next Victorian state election is scheduled to be held on 26 November 2022 to elect the 60th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council will be up for election, presuming there are no new electorates added in a redistribution.

Background

2018 election

The second-term incumbent Labor government, currently led by Premier Daniel Andrews, will attempt to win a third four-year term. They will be challenged by the Liberal/National Coalition opposition, currently led by Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien. Also expected to contest the election is minor party the Greens, currently led by Samantha Ratnam.

Electoral system

Victoria has compulsory voting and uses instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the Legislative Assembly, and single transferable vote in multi-member seats for the proportionally represented Legislative Council. The Legislative Council presently has 40 members serving four-year terms, elected from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, is 16.7%. The election will be conducted by the Victorian Electoral Commission.

Redistribution

The Electoral Boundaries Commission must conduct a redistribution if there has been two general elections since the last redistribution. With the last redistribution occurring prior to the 2014 election, a new one will be concluded in 2021, prior to the 2022 election. According to commentators, Victoria's "booming population" will see new districts created in outer-suburban and inner-city areas, at the expense of middle-suburban areas. At the 2018 election the voter enrollment in individual districts ranged from 61,814 in Cranbourne to 38,937 in Mount Waverley.

Date

Pursuant to the Electoral Act 2002, Victoria has had fixed terms, with all elections since the 2006 election held every four years on the last Saturday of November. This means that the date for the next election is currently set at 26 November 2022. This would change only if Parliament were dissolved unexpectedly beforehand.

Registered parties

, there were 15 parties registered with the Victorian Electoral Commission :

Voting intention

Polling that is conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes usually consist of over 1200 electors. The declared margin of error is ±2.8 percentage points.

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