North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region, previously Eastern Metropolitan Region between 2006 and 2022, is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was created in 2006 following the 2005 reform of the Victorian Legislative Council. The region was renamed to its current name since the 2022 state election.^[1]

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region Victoria—Legislative Council
Location of Eastern Metropolitan Region (dark green) in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	2006
MP	Richard Welch (Liberal) Shaun Leane (Labor) Nick McGowan (Liberal) Aiv Puglielli (Greens) Sonja Terpstra (Labor)
Party	Labor (2)   Liberal (2)   Greens (1)
Electors	546,503 (2022)
Area	509 km2 (196.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	37°48′S 145°11′E

The region extends from Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs of Bulleen and Doncaster, north across the Yarra River to Lower Plenty and Eltham, and across to Bayswater, Croydon and Ferntree Gully (in the Dandenong Ranges) in the east below the Dandenong Ranges. It comprises the Legislative Assembly districts of Bayswater, Box Hill, Bulleen, Bundoora, Croydon, Eltham, Glen Waverley, Ivanhoe, Mill Park, Ringwood and Warrandyte.

Members

Members for North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Year	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
2006		Shaun Leane	Labor		Brian Tee	Labor		Richard Dalla-Riva	Liberal		Jan Kronberg	Liberal		Bruce Atkinson	Liberal
2010
2014					Samantha Dunn	Greens					Mary Wooldridge	Liberal
2018					Sonja Terpstra	Labor		Rod Barton	Transport Matters
2020											Matthew Bach	Liberal
2022								Aiv Puglielli	Greens					Nick McGowan	Liberal
2024											Richard Welch	Liberal

Returned MLCs by seat

Seats are allocated by single transferable vote using group voting tickets. Changes in party membership between elections have been omitted for simplicity.^[2][3][4]

Election	1st MLC		2nd MLC		3rd MLC		4th MLC		5th MLC
2006		Liberal (Richard Dalla-Riva)		Labor (Shaun Leane)		Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)		Labor (Brian Tee)		Liberal (Jan Kronberg)
2010		Liberal (Richard Dalla-Riva)		Labor (Shaun Leane)		Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)		Liberal (Jan Kronberg)		Labor (Brian Tee)
2014		Liberal (Mary Wooldridge)		Labor (Shaun Leane)		Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)		Liberal (Richard Dalla-Riva)		Greens (Samantha Dunn)
2018		Labor (Shaun Leane)		Liberal (Mary Wooldridge)		Labor (Sonja Terpstra)		Liberal (Bruce Atkinson)		Transport Matters (Rod Barton)
2022		Labor (Shaun Leane)		Liberal (Matthew Bach)		Labor (Sonja Terpstra)		Liberal (Nick McGowan)		Greens (Aiv Puglielli)

Election results

Further information: Electoral results for the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

2022 Victorian state election: North-Eastern Metropolitan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Quota			80,147
	Labor	1. Shaun Leane (elected 1) 2. Sonja Terpstra (elected 3) 3. Nildhara Gadani 4. Rana Shahid Javed 5. Kieran Simpson	162,183	33.73	−3.24
	Liberal	1. Matthew Bach (elected 2) 2. Nick McGowan (elected 4) 3. Kirsten Langford 4. Irene Ling 5. Sally Houguet	145,788	30.32	−5.81
	Greens	1. Aiv Puglielli (elected 5) 2. Sophia Sun 3. Liz Chase 4. Asher Cookson 5. Sarah Newman	49,934	10.38	+1.39
	Democratic Labour	1. Hugh Dolan 2. Brenton van der Ende 3. George Tsingopoulos 4. James Tra	25,055	5.21	+3.51
	Liberal Democrats	1. Maya Tesa 2. Josh Lay	20,379	4.24	+0.07
	Legalise Cannabis	1. Nicholas Wallis 2. Anna Negri	15,357	3.19	+3.19
	Family First	1. Alister Cameron 2. Nina van Strijp	10,063	2.09	+2.09
	Animal Justice	1. Chris Delforce 2. Angel Aleksov	6,799	1.41	−0.99
	Justice	1. Judith Thompson 2. Annette Philpott	6,759	1.41	−1.12
	One Nation	1. Peter Richardson 2. William Turner	6,086	1.27	+1.27
	Reason	1. Nina Springle 2. Francis Cairns	4,774	0.99	−0.20
	Freedom	1. Greg Cheesman 2. Daniella Heatherich	4,684	0.97	+0.97
	Shooters, Fishers, Farmers	1. Chris Banhidy 2. Hugh Hanson	4,401	0.92	−0.33
	Sack Dan Andrews	1. Serife Cobankara 2. Husyin Cobankara	3,236	0.67	+0.67
	Health Australia	1. Leesa Michelle Munro 2. Andrew Hicks	3,171	0.66	+0.08
	Victorian Socialists	1. Lucas Moore 2. Lillian Kopschewa	2,585	0.54	+0.09
	United Australia	1. Nathan Scaglione 2. Irene Zivkovic	2,436	0.51	+0.51
	Sustainable Australia	1. Jack Corcoran 2. William Clow	1,875	0.39	−0.42
	Companions and Pets	1. Craig Reid 2. Julia Jones	1,738	0.36	+0.36
	Angry Victorians	1. Wally Edwards 2. Joe Gianfriddo	1,673	0.35	+0.35
	Transport Matters	1. Rod Barton 2. Kim Guest	1,023	0.21	−0.41
	New Democrats	1. Darshan Lal Jaisinghani 2. Rajat Garg 3. Pushpdeep Narang	879	0.18	+0.18
Total formal votes			480,878	97.21	+0.33
Informal votes			13,484	2.79	−0.33
Turnout			494,672	91.68	−2.04

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Council) § North-Eastern Metropolitan.[edit]

Labor and the Liberal Party were defending two seats each. The Transport Matters Party were defending one seat.^[5]