Northern Metropolitan Region

Northern Metropolitan Region 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.

Northern Metropolitan Region Victoria—Legislative Council
Location of Northern Metropolitan Region (dark green) in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	2006
MP	Enver Erdogan (Labor) Evan Mulholland (Liberal) Anasina Gray-Barberio (Greens) Adem Somyurek (Independent) Sheena Watt (Labor)
Party	Labor (2)   Greens (1)   Liberal (1)   Independent (1)
Electors	552,071 (2022)
Area	603 km2 (232.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	37°40′S 144°58′E

The region comprises the Legislative Assembly districts of Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Essendon, Greenvale, Kalkallo, Melbourne, Northcote, Pascoe Vale, Preston, Richmond and Thomastown.

Members

Members for Northern Metropolitan Region

Year	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
2006		Greg Barber	Greens		Nazih Elasmar	Labor		Jenny Mikakos	Labor		Theo Theophanous	Labor		Matthew Guy	Liberal
2010											Nathan Murphy	Labor
2010											Craig Ondarchie	Liberal
2014														Fiona Patten	Sex Party
2017		Samantha Ratnam	Greens
2018															Reason
2018
2020								Sheena Watt	Labor
2022					Enver Erdogan	Labor					Evan Mulholland	Liberal		Adem Somyurek	Democratic Labour
2024															Independent
2024		Anasina Gray-Barberio	Greens

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.^[1][2][3]

Election	1st MLC		2nd MLC		3rd MLC		4th MLC		5th MLC
2006		Labor (Theo Theophanous)		Liberal (Matthew Guy)		Labor (Jenny Mikakos)		Greens (Greg Barber)		Labor (Nazih Elasmar)
2010		Labor (Jenny Mikakos)		Liberal (Matthew Guy)		Greens (Greg Barber)		Labor (Nazih Elasmar)		Liberal (Craig Ondarchie)
2014		Labor (Jenny Mikakos)		Liberal (Craig Ondarchie)		Greens (Greg Barber)		Labor (Nazih Elasmar)		Sex Party (Fiona Patten)
2018		Labor (Jenny Mikakos)		Labor (Nazih Elasmar)		Greens (Samantha Ratnam)		Liberal (Craig Ondarchie)		Reason (Fiona Patten)
2022		Labor (Sheena Watt)		Liberal (Evan Mulholland)		Greens (Samantha Ratnam)		Labor (Enver Erdogan)		Democratic Labour (Adem Somyurek)

Election results

Further information: Electoral results for the Northern Metropolitan Region

2022 Victorian state election: Northern Metropolitan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Quota			75,406
	Labor	1. Sheena Watt (elected 1) 2. Enver Erdogan (elected 4) 3. Susie Byers 4. Chloe Gaul 5. Ramy Aljalil	151,062	33.39	−9.18
	Liberal	1. Evan Mulholland (elected 2) 2. Owen Guest 3. Tim Staker-Gunn 4. Melinda Tempany 5. Hafiz Qadeer	85,359	18.87	+2.41
	Greens	1. Samantha Ratnam (elected 3) 2. Esther Kennedy 3. Sarah Jefford 4. Michael Leach 5. Kenna Morrison	84,127	18.59	+1.86
	Democratic Labour	1. Adem Somyurek (elected 5) 2. Cary De Wit	21,684	4.79	+0.62
	Victorian Socialists	1. Jerome Small 2. Cathy Lewis	21,305	4.71	+0.52
	Reason	1. Fiona Patten 2. Judy Ryan 3. Jenn Clark 4. Marcella Brassett 5. Tali Siani Jagielski	16,322	3.61	+0.24
	Legalise Cannabis	1. Andrew Hale 2. Renee Thompson	13,822	3.06	+3.06
	Family First	1. Imad Hirmiz 2. Denise Lowry	11,646	2.57	+2.57
	Animal Justice	1. Leah Horsfall 2. Bruce Poon	6,320	1.40	−0.62
	Liberal Democrats	1. Paul Silverberg 2. Rachel Versteegen	5,612	1.24	−0.13
	United Australia	1. Kelly Moran 2. Scott McCamish	5,601	1.24	+1.24
	Freedom	1. Damien Richardson 2. Cameron Stoddart	4,937	1.09	+1.09
	Justice	1. Simone Philpott-Smart 2. Thomas Stanfield	4,773	1.05	−0.97
	One Nation	1. Jessica Davis 2. Matthew Considine	4,251	0.94	+0.94
	Shooters, Fishers, Farmers	1. Ethan Constantinou 2. Ben Podger	3,470	0.77	−0.43
	Sack Dan Andrews	1. Hatice Yesilagac 2. Berke Yolcu	2,711	0.60	+0.60
	Transport Matters	1. Georgia Diamantopoulos 2. Francesco Raco	1,964	0.43	−0.17
	Health Australia	1. Lisa Taggart 2. Gabrielle Brodie	1,642	0.36	−0.46
	Companions and Pets	1. Pauline Grutzner 2. Linda Pullen	1,582	0.35	+0.35
	Sustainable Australia	1. Alison Pridham 2. Daryl Budgeon	1,480	0.33	−0.38
	New Democrats	1. Amita Ros 2. Pushpinder Singh 3. Vikram Bhinder	1,456	0.32	+0.32
	Angry Victorians	1. Nickee Freeman 2. Jake Cashion	1,186	0.26	+0.26
	Ind. (Indigenous)	Colin John Mancell	118	0.03	+0.03
Total formal votes			452,430	96.33	+1.13
Informal votes			17,223	4.80	−1.13
Turnout			496,653	85.07	−2.94

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

Labor were defending two seats. The Liberal Party, Greens, and Reason were defending one seat each.^[4]