Division of Monash

Not to be confused with City of Monash.

The Division of Monash is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria, which was contested for the first time at the 2019 federal election.

Monash Australian House of Representatives Division
From the 2022 federal election to 2025 From the 2025 federal election Interactive map of electorate boundaries
Created	2019
MP	Mary Aldred
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Sir John Monash
Electors	116,527 (2025)
Area	8,255 km2 (3,187.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

The division is located in western Gippsland including Phillip Island, and extends for the length of Victoria's eastern Bass Strait coastline. As of 2025^[update], it covers the entire local government areas of Bass Coast Shire and South Gippsland Shire, the majority of Shire of Baw Baw, and a portion of City of Latrobe. It is the southernmost Electoral Division in continental Australia.

Geography

Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are 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]

When the division was created in 2018, it encompassed areas of West Gippsland and South Gippsland previously in the abolished Division of McMillan, with the exception of the suburb of Pakenham and the town of Yallourn North, which were instead gained by the Division of La Trobe and Division of Gippsland respectively.^[2] The new division also gained areas from the Division of Flinders in the Bass Coast Shire and the southern part of Shire of Cardinia, such as Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang and Phillip Island. In 2021, it lost all areas within the Shire of Cardinia such as Koo Wee Rup and Bunyip to the Division of La Trobe. It did not undergo any boundary changes in the 2024 redistribution.^[3]

As of the 2024 redistribution, it covered the entire local government areas of Bass Coast Shire and South Gippsland Shire, and the majority of Shire of Baw Baw (except a tiny and unpopulated area near Yallourn North). It also included a small portion of City of Latrobe at Moe.^[4] It includes the towns of Warragul, Moe, Wonthaggi, Leongatha and Foster. Overall it stretches from Mount Baw Baw and the Baw Baw National Park in the north to Wilsons Promontory, and the Wilsons Promontory National Park in the south, including Phillip Island.

History

Sir John Monash, the division's namesake

Monash was created in the mandatory redistribution of divisions in Victoria by the Australian Electoral Commission in 2018.^[5] It is named in honour of Sir John Monash, an Australian Allied military commander during World War I. It replaced the similarly-located Division of McMillan in 2018.

Prior to the 2022 federal election, the seat was notionally held by the Liberal Party of Australia on a margin of 6.9%, making it a fairly safe seat for the party.^[6] It is now held on a margin of 2.9%, making it marginal.^[7] The seat gained Phillip Island at the 2018 redistribution.

Members

Image		Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Russell Broadbent (1950–)	Liberal	18 May 2019 – 14 November 2023	Previously held the Division of McMillan. Resigned from the Liberal Party after losing preselection. Lost seat
			Independent	14 November 2023 – 3 May 2025
		Mary Aldred	Liberal	3 May 2025 – present	Incumbent

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Monash

2025 Australian federal election: Monash^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Mary Aldred	32,579	31.78	−6.01
	Labor	Tully Fletcher	20,804	20.29	−5.31
	Independent	Deb Leonard	17,529	17.10	+6.38
	Independent	Russell Broadbent	10,450	10.19	+10.19
	One Nation	Kuljeet Kaur Robinson	8,166	7.97	+0.43
	Greens	Terence Steele	5,062	4.94	−4.92
	Legalise Cannabis	David O'Reilly	3,521	3.43	+3.43
	Trumpet of Patriots	Alex Wehbe	2,608	2.54	+1.84
	Family First	Geoff Dethlefs	1,801	1.76	+1.76
Total formal votes			102,520	94.18	−1.14
Informal votes			6,330	5.82	+1.14
Turnout			108,850	93.46	+4.65
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Mary Aldred	55,451	54.09	+1.19
	Labor	Tully Fletcher	47,069	45.91	−1.19
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.19

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Victoria § Monash.[edit]