Brunswick

A crossbench seat with no member sitting.

ABC Tally Room Wikipedia

What is happening herethe 2026 record for this seat

2026 note

Seat vacant (Read died Sept 2026)

Member

Tim Read (Greens) retired in January 2026 and died on 19 September 2026, leaving the seat vacant.

ABC

Who is coming for it

The research does not name a projected challenger for this seat.

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Who is standing

5 candidates announced · 4 with a party logo instead

Adam Helman One Nation
Adam Pulford The Greens
Gabe Steger Labor
Mel Yuan Independent
Naomi Farmer Victorian Socialists

Announced candidacies as the ABC's candidate tracker records them. Nominations close 9 November 2026, so this list can change; it is not a ballot paper and the order carries no meaning. ABC VEC

Incumbent win chance

No probability is published for this seat — the model runs an incumbent win figure for the seven districts on its own list, and Brunswick is not among them.

The Swing Is On

Evidence

No separate evidence line is recorded for this seat.

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Where it sits

Brunswick is one of the 11 Legislative Assembly districts that make up the Northern Metropolitan Region, which elects five members to the Legislative Council. The region covers 603 km².

2022 Council result

ALP 2 (Watt, Erdogan), Lib 1 (Mulholland), GRN 1 (Ratnam), DLP 1 (Somyurek)

VEC

The district

Brunswick filled in, among all 88 districts. Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, double-click to go in and back out. Boundaries: Vicmap State Assembly Polygon 2022, simplified for drawing. Vicmap

Held by, challenged by

Holding Greens Read, whose seat is vacant.
Challenging Not named in the research

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Are you in this seat?

The percentage is how much of each postcode’s enrolment falls in this district.

3056 20,822 voters · 100% Brunswick
3057 10,832 voters · 100% Brunswick East
3068 10,120 voters · 67% Clifton Hill, Fitzroy North
3055 7,244 voters · 65% Brunswick West
3054 6,723 voters · 100% Carlton North, Princes Hill

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Elsewhere

The full pendulum The players

Where no player is listed, the research places none here — a gap in the record, not a seat with no activity.