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Division of Goldstein

Australian federal electoral division

Summary

Australian federal electoral division

Field	Value
federal	yes
name	Goldstein
image
caption	Interactive map of electorate boundaries from the 2025 federal election
created	1984
mp	Tim Wilson
mp-party	Liberal
namesake	Vida Goldstein
electors	126189
electors_year	2025
area	56
class	Inner metropolitan

| mp-party = Liberal The Division of Goldstein () is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria, Australia. The division was created in 1984, when the former Division of Balaclava was abolished. It is located in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, including Beaumaris, Bentleigh, Brighton, Caulfield South, Cheltenham (part), Glen Huntly (part), Elsternwick (part), Ormond (part), Gardenvale and Sandringham.

Geography

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.

As a result of a periodical boundary redistribution, from the 2025 Australian federal election, Goldstein's boundaries will move east to include the suburbs of Moorabbin (part) and Bentleigh East (part) and take more of the suburbs of Cheltenham and Highett.

History

[[Vida Goldstein]], the division's namesake

The division is named after Vida Goldstein, an early parliamentary candidate who contested five separate elections within the first two decades after Federation. The seat was created in 1984 as a reconfigured version of the Division of Balaclava. Like its predecessor, it was historically a safe seat for the Liberal Party; when combined, the seat is one of very few that has never been held by the Labor Party at any point since 1901.

Its most prominent members include Ian Macphee, a minister under Malcolm Fraser and prominent Liberal moderate; and Andrew Robb, a former federal director of the Liberal Party who served as a minister under John Howard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull.

The long Liberal run in the seat ended in 2022, when teal independent and former ABC News reporter Zoe Daniel defeated Robb's successor, Tim Wilson. The swing against the Liberals was large enough to drop Goldstein down to marginal in a "traditional" two-party matchup with Labor.

The seat was notable in the 2025 election with it bucking the national trend, being the only seat the Liberals gained in the whole country. The seat was regained by Wilson who contested a rematch against Daniel. This marked the first, and as of July 2025 the only time the Liberal Party had defeated an incumbent "teal" independent.

Members

Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		[[File:Ian Macphee 1974 (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Ian Macphee
(1938–)	Liberal	nowrap	1 December 1984 –
19 February 1990
		[[File:David Kemp at Fraser Symposium (1) (cropped).jpg	100px]]	David Kemp
(1941–)	nowrap	24 March 1990 –
31 August 2004	Served as minister under Howard. Retired
		[[File:Andrew Robb MP.jpg	100px]]	Andrew Robb
(1951–)	nowrap	9 October 2004 –
9 May 2016	Served as minister under Howard, Abbott and Turnbull. Retired
		[[File:Tim Wilson (17887430121) (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Tim Wilson
(1980–)	nowrap	2 July 2016 –
21 May 2022	Lost seat
		[[File:Zoe_Daniel.jpg	100px]]	Zoe Daniel
(1972–)	Independent	nowrap	21 May 2022 –
3 May 2025
		[[File:Tim Wilson (17887430121) (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Tim Wilson
(1980–)	Liberal	nowrap	3 May 2025 –
present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Goldstein

References

(14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide".
https://www.aec.gov.au/redistributions/2023/vic/proposed-redistribution/maps/a4/2024-AEC-Victoria-A4-Goldstein-Proposed.pdf {{Bare URL PDF. (June 2025)

Wikipedia Source

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