Division of Bruce

Bruce Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Bruce in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1955
MP	Julian Hill
Party	Labor
Namesake	Stanley Bruce
Electors	96,716 (2016)
Area	73 km2 (28.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Bruce is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. The division was created in 1955 and is named for Stanley Bruce, who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1923 to 1929. Unusually, the division was named after a living person as Bruce did not die until 1967.

The division is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It covers an area of approximately 73 square kilometres (28 sq mi) including the suburbs of Dandenong North, Glen Waverley, Mulgrave, Noble Park North, Wheelers Hill, and parts of Clayton, Dandenong, Noble Park, Notting Hill and Springvale.

The current Member for Bruce, since the 2016 federal election, is Julian Hill, who is a member of the Australian Labor Party.

Until 1996, the division was based on Glen Waverley and Mount Waverley, and was a fairly safe seat for the Liberal Party, but since then its boundaries have been extended southwards, making it a marginal Labor Party seat.