Division of Hawke

The Division of Hawke is an Australian electoral division in the state of Victoria, which was contested for the first time at the 2022 Australian federal election.

[1][2] The electorate is centred on the localities of Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Melton and Sunbury to the west and north-west of Melbourne.

Federal electoral division boundaries in Australia are determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission.

[4] The seat was named in honour of Bob Hawke, the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister of Australia, who served from March 1983 to December 1991, and who represented the Division of Wills from 1980 to 1992.

[1] The new division was confirmed in June 2021 and was contested for the first time at the 2022 election.

Bob Hawke , the division's namesake
Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of Hawke in the 2022 federal election . check Y indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner.