The Electoral district of Narracan is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...

. It was first proclaimed in 1967 and has usually been held by the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

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The electorate covers the provincial centres of Warragul

Warragul, Victoria

Warragul is a rural centre with a population of 12,943 people east-southeast of Melbourne in Victoria. Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range to the north...

 and Moe

Moe, Victoria

Moe is a city in the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is about east of Melbourne and at the 2006 census had a population of 15,582 . It is administered by the City of Latrobe council....

 as well as many smaller rural

Rural

Rural areas or the country or countryside are areas that are not urbanized, though when large areas are described, country towns and smaller cities will be included. They have a low population density, and typically much of the land is devoted to agriculture...

 towns in north west Gippsland

Gippsland

Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south...

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Narracan was held by the Liberal Party until the 1999 election when it was one of the many rural seats to fall to Labor, with Ian Maxfield

Ian Maxfield

Ian John Maxfield is a former Australian politician.Born in Warragul, Victoria, he graduated from Drouin High School in 1976. In 1979 he received an A Grade Electrical Mechanic and Motor Control from Noble Park TAFE and became an electrician. In 1986 he became an organiser with the Shop Assistants...

 defeating Florian Andrighetto

Florian Andrighetto

Florian Andrighetto is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 1999, representing the electorate of Narracan....

. Despite a redistribution which made the seat notionally Liberal, Maxfield extended his majority to 6.8% at the 2002 election.

However at the 2006 election

Victorian state election, 2006

An election for the 56th Parliament of Victoria took place on Saturday, 25 November 2006. Just over 3 million Victorians registered to vote elected 88 members to the Legislative Assembly and, for the first time, 40 members to the Legislative Council under a proportional representation system...

 Narracan was a surprise gain for the Liberals.

Members for Narracan

Member		Party	Term
	Jim Balfour	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1967–1982
	John Delzoppo John Delzoppo John Delzoppo was an Australian politician who was Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria from 1992-1996 as part of the Liberal Kennett Government....	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1982–1996
	Florian Andrighetto Florian Andrighetto Florian Andrighetto is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 1999, representing the electorate of Narracan....	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1996–1999
	Ian Maxfield Ian Maxfield Ian John Maxfield is a former Australian politician.Born in Warragul, Victoria, he graduated from Drouin High School in 1976. In 1979 he received an A Grade Electrical Mechanic and Motor Control from Noble Park TAFE and became an electrician. In 1986 he became an organiser with the Shop Assistants...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1999–2006
	Gary Blackwood Gary Blackwood (politician) Gary John Blackwood is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2006, representing the electorate of Narracan.-Early life:...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	2006–present

Election results

See also

• Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
  Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
  The Parliaments of the Australian states and territories are legislative bodies within the federal framework of the Commonwealth of Australia. Before the formation of the Commonwealth in 1901, the six Australian colonies were self-governing, with parliaments which had come into existence at various...
  
  
• List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

External links

• Electorate profile: Narracan District, Victorian Electoral Commission