Electoral district of Croydon (Victoria)

This article is about the electoral district. For the suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, see Croydon, Victoria. For other uses, see Croydon (disambiguation).

The electoral district of Croydon is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, located in the east of Melbourne. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election.^[1]

Croydon Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Croydon (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	2014
MP	David Hodgett
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Suburb of Croydon
Electors	42,995 (2018)
Area	42 km2 (16.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Electorates around Croydon: Warrandyte Warrandyte Evelyn Ringwood Croydon Evelyn Ringwood Bayswater Monbulk

It largely covers the area of the abolished district of Kilsyth, covering outer eastern suburbs in Melbourne. As of the 2022 Victorian state election, the seat contains the suburbs of Croydon, Croydon Hills, Croydon North, Croydon South, Mooroolbark, Kilsyth, Kilsyth South and Bayswater North^[2] in the local government areas of Maroondah City and Yarra Ranges Shire.

The abolished seat of Kilsyth was held by Liberal MP David Hodgett, who retained the new seat at the 2014 election.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	David Hodgett	Liberal	2014–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Croydon (Victoria)

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Victorian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Croydon.[edit]

2022 Victorian state election: Croydon^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Hodgett	19,605	43.0	−3.4
	Labor	Sorina Grasso	15,564	34.1	−5.5
	Greens	Brendan Powell	4,940	10.8	+1.9
	Family First	Dan Nebauer	2,051	4.5	+4.5
	Democratic Labour	Sophia De Wit	1,978	4.3	+4.3
	Animal Justice	Harley McDonald-Eckersall	1,501	3.3	−1.2
Total formal votes			45,639	95.7	+0.9
Informal votes			2,054	4.3	−0.9
Turnout			47,693	90.8	+0.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	David Hodgett	23,446	51.4	+0.4
	Labor	Sorina Grasso	22,193	48.6	−0.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.4

Graphical summary

Two-party-preferred vote results in Croydon