Division of Dunkley

The Division of Dunkley is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria. The division is located south-east of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. It covers an area of approximately 152 square kilometres (59 sq mi) from Seaford in the north to Mount Eliza in the south and Langwarrin South in the southeast. Following the 2024 Dunkley by-election, Jodie Belyea currently represents the seat.

Dunkley Australian House of Representatives Division
From the 2022 federal election to 2025 From the 2025 federal election Interactive map of electorate boundaries
Created	1984
MP	Jodie Belyea
Party	Labor
Namesake	Louisa Margaret Dunkley
Electors	111,693 (2022)
Area	153 km2 (59.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer metropolitan and semi-rural
Electorates around Dunkley: Port Phillip Isaacs Holt Port Phillip Dunkley Holt Port Phillip Flinders Flinders

List of Localities in Dunkley

• Frankston (seat)
• Frankston South
• Frankston North
• Mount Eliza
• Karingal
• Langwarrin
• Langwarrin South
• Skye
• Carrum Downs
• Sandhurst
• Seaford

Geography

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.^[1]

As a result of a periodical boundary redistribution, from the 2025 Australian federal election, Dunkley’s boundaries will move north to include the suburbs of Carrum, Bonbeach, Patterson Lakes, Chelsea (part) and Chelsea Heights (part), while losing the southern part of Mount Eliza to neighbouring Flinders.^[2]

History

The division was created in 1984 and is named for Louisa Margaret Dunkley, a trade unionist and campaigner for equal pay for women.

It was held by the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2019, however a 2018 boundary redistribution that favoured Labor, along with Labor's increased statewide strength in Victoria resulted in Peta Murphy winning the seat for the Labor Party at the 2019 Australian federal election.^[3]

Members

Image		Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Bob Chynoweth (1941–)	Labor	1 December 1984 – 24 March 1990	Previously held the Division of Flinders. Lost seat
		Frank Ford (1936–)	Liberal	24 March 1990 – 13 March 1993	Lost seat
		Bob Chynoweth (1941–)	Labor	13 March 1993 – 2 March 1996	Lost seat
		Bruce Billson (1966–)	Liberal	2 March 1996 – 9 May 2016	Served as minister under Howard and Abbott. Retired
		Chris Crewther (1983–)	Liberal	2 July 2016 – 18 May 2019	Lost seat. Later elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Mornington in 2022
		Peta Murphy (1973–2023)	Labor	18 May 2019 – 4 December 2023	Died in office
		Jodie Belyea	Labor	2 March 2024 – present	Incumbent

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Dunkley

2024 Dunkley by-election^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Jodie Belyea	37,418	41.07	+0.84
	Liberal	Nathan Conroy	35,746	39.23	+6.73
	Greens	Alex Breskin	5,798	6.36	−3.98
	Independent	Darren Bergwerf	4,315	4.74	+0.87
	Animal Justice	Bronwyn Currie	2,818	3.09	+0.99
	Libertarian	Chrysten Abraham	2,246	2.47	−0.04
	Victorian Socialists	Reem Yunis	1,529	1.68	+1.68
	Democrats	Heath McKenzie	1,242	1.36	+1.36
Total formal votes			91,112	95.86	+0.59
Informal votes			3,930	4.14	−0.59
Turnout			95,042	83.79	−6.27
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Jodie Belyea	48,019	52.70	−3.57
	Liberal	Nathan Conroy	43,093	47.30	+3.57
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.57

This section is an excerpt from 2024 Dunkley by-election § Results.[edit]

Primary vote results in Dunkley (Parties that did not get 5% of the vote are omitted)

  Liberal

  Labor

  Greens

  Australian Democrats

  Justice

  Palmer United/United Australia Party

Two-candidate-preferred results in Dunkley

Notes