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Hotham

Hotham is a federal electorate in Victoria, held by Clare O'Neil of the Australian Labor Party since the 2025 election, by a margin of 16.86 points — a safe seat.

Member for Hotham

Clare O'Neil

Australian Labor Party

Their voting record and expenses →

The 2025 result

Final two candidates after preferences were distributed, from the election held 3 May 2025.

  • Clare O'NEILAustralian Labor Party66.86%71,012 votes
  • Harmick Singh MATHARULiberal33.14%35,199 votes
Margin
16.86%
Safe
Two-party-preferred swing
+5.27%
to Australian Labor Party
Turnout
92.36%
118,993 enrolled

First preferences in 2025

How the seat voted before preferences were distributed. The Coalition is counted as one figure across its four registrations, and the Greens across both of theirs — in Victoria they contest as GVIC and elsewhere as GRN, which read as two separate minor parties if left unmerged.

  • Labor48.8%
  • Coalition25.7%
  • Greens14.9%
  • Minor parties5.9%
  • One Nation4.7%

Suburbs in Hotham

23 suburbs and localities have residents in this electorate. 11of them also have residents in another one — the percentage is the share of that area’s Census population living here.

  • Bentleigh East 86%
  • Springvale (Vic.)
  • Clayton
  • Carnegie
  • Mulgrave (Vic.) 77%
  • Clayton South
  • Noble Park 31%
  • Murrumbeena
  • Oakleigh South
  • Oakleigh
  • Hughesdale
  • Clarinda
  • Oakleigh East
  • Wheelers Hill 26%
  • Mount Waverley 12%
  • Notting Hill
  • Chadstone 28%
  • Noble Park North 32%
  • Ormond 25%
  • Huntingdale (Vic.)
  • Glen Waverley 2%
  • McKinnon 2%
  • Bentleigh 0%

Postcodes in Hotham

13 postcodes have residents in this electorate. 8of them also have residents in another one — the percentage is the share of that area’s Census population living here.

  • 3163 85%
  • 3165 86%
  • 3166
  • 3171
  • 3168
  • 3169
  • 3170 77%
  • 3174 32%
  • 3167
  • 3150 10%
  • 3149 12%
  • 3148 28%
  • 3204 7%

Where this comes from

  • Results, margins and turnout are the AEC’s published 2025figures. The margin is derived — the winner’s two-candidate-preferred share minus 50 — and the seat status is the AEC’s own classification.
  • Suburbs and postcodes come from 2021 Census mesh blocks matched to CED_2025 boundaries, weighted by resident population rather than by area — otherwise a large, largely uninhabited postcode is assigned to whichever division holds the most empty land.
  • These are an approximation of the AEC’s legal boundaries, so close to a boundary they can differ. To confirm where you are enrolled, check the AEC.

Australian Statistical Geography Standard Edition 3 allocation files and 2021 Census Mesh Block Counts, © Australian Bureau of Statistics.