It covers an area of 20 square kilometres (7.7 sq mi) in south-eastern Melbourne, including the suburbs of Brighton and Elwood, and parts of Brighton East and Hampton.

It lies within the Southern Metropolitan Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council.

[1] It is one of only three electorates (along with Richmond and Williamstown) to have existed continuously since 1856.

Brighton was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act, 1855, as: "Commencing on the Sea Coast at the South-west Angle of Section 25, Parish of Moorabbin, thence by a Line East to the South-east Angle of Section 55 ; on the East by a Line bearing North, being the Parish Boundary from the said Point to the North-east Angle of Section 63 ; on the North by the Road bearing West to the Sea Coast, and on the West by the Sea Coast to the commencing Point.

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