List of Victorian Legislative Council appointments

This is a list of appointments to the Victorian Legislative Council, caused by the resignation or death of an incumbent member. A departure creates a casual vacancy which is filled by a candidate of the same affiliation in a joint sitting of the Parliament of Victoria. The constitution states that if the previous sitting Legislative Council member was at the time of his/her election the representative of a particular political party, that party should nominate a replacement from amongst its own members. This was introduced as part of reforms to the Legislative Council in 2003, taking effect from the 2006 election; prior to that time, casual vacancies in the Legislative Council had been filled through by-elections.^[1]

List of appointments

Date	Region	Incumbent	Party		Appointee	Party		Cause
13 November 2024	Northern Metropolitan	Samantha Ratnam		Greens	Anasina Gray-Barberio		Greens	Resignation	[2]
17 August 2022	Eastern Victoria	Jane Garrett		Labor	Tom McIntosh		Labor	Death	[3][4]
22 June 2022	South Eastern Metropolitan	David Limbrick		Liberal Democrats	David Limbrick		Liberal Democrats	Resignation	[5]
2 December 2021	Eastern Metropolitan	Edward O'Donohue		Liberal	Cathrine Burnett-Wake		Liberal	Resignation	[6]
13 October 2020	Northern Metropolitan	Jenny Mikakos		Labor	Sheena Watt		Labor	Resignation	[7]
23 April 2020	South Eastern Metropolitan	Gavin Jennings		Labor	Lee Tarlamis		Labor	Resignation	[8]
5 March 2020	Eastern Metropolitan	Mary Wooldridge		Liberal	Matthew Bach		Liberal	Resignation	[9]
15 August 2019	Southern Metropolitan	Philip Dalidakis		Labor	Enver Erdogan		Labor	Resignation	[10]
21 February 2018	Western Metropolitan	Colleen Hartland		Greens	Huong Truong		Greens	Resignation	[11]
19 October 2017	Northern Metropolitan	Greg Barber		Greens	Samantha Ratnam		Greens	Resignation	[12]
7 June 2017	Northern Victoria	Steve Herbert		Labor	Mark Gepp		Labor	Resignation	[13]
12 October 2016	Northern Victoria	Damian Drum		National	Luke O'Sullivan		National	Resignation	[14]
15 April 2015	Eastern Victoria	Danny O'Brien		National	Melina Bath		National	Resignation	[15]
11 June 2014	Northern Victoria	Candy Broad		Labor	Marg Lewis		Labor	Resignation	[16]
26 March 2014	Eastern Victoria	Peter Hall		National	Danny O'Brien		National	Resignation	[17]
5 February 2014	Eastern Victoria	Philip Davis		Liberal	Andrew Ronalds		Liberal	Resignation	[18]
21 August 2013	Northern Victoria	Donna Petrovich		Liberal	Amanda Millar		Liberal	Resignation	[19]
8 May 2013	Western Metropolitan	Martin Pakula		Labor	Cesar Melhem		Labor	Resignation	[20]
8 May 2013	Northern Metropolitan	Theo Theophanous		Labor	Nathan Murphy		Labor	Resignation	[21]
3 February 2009	Southern Metropolitan	Evan Thornley		Labor	Jennifer Huppert		Labor	Resignation	[22]

See also

• List of Victorian state by-elections