Northern Metropolitan Region

Northern Metropolitan Region
Victoria—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 / 37.667°S 144.967°E

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.

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		Party		Party		Party		Party		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								Sex Party
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								Independent

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
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

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

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