Electoral district of Mildura
Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria and sits within the Northern Victoria electorate. It is a 37,529 km2 rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale.
| Mildura Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Location of Mildura (dark green) in Victoria | |||||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 1927 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Jade Benham | ||||||||||||||
| Party | National | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Town of Mildura | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 44,401 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 37,529 km2 (14,490.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Rural | ||||||||||||||
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Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of Labor control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the Liberal Party, with journalist Craig Bildstien winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent Russell Savage. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide.
Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party.
Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.