[1][2][3] Jodie Belyea retained the seat for the Labor Party, winning 52.7% of the two-party preferred vote.

The by-election was triggered by the death of sitting Labor member Peta Murphy, who died at 50 years old due to breast cancer.

Murphy was elected as the member of Dunkley in 2019, after she unseated one-term incumbent Liberal MP Chris Crewther.

At the 2022 federal election, Murphy was re-elected with an increased majority, turning it into a fairly safe seat.

[7] Rod Glover, Peta Murphy's husband, was asked by "senior figures and local branch members" to run as Labor's candidate.