Electoral district of Bundoora

Bundoora Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location of Bundoora (dark green) in Greater Melbourne
State	Victoria
Created	1976
MP	Colin Brooks
Party	Australian Labor Party
Electors	39,435 (2014)
Area	31 km2 (12.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan

Bundoora is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of 31 square kilometres (12 sq mi) in north-eastern Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Bundoora, Kingsbury, Watsonia and Watsonia North, and parts of Greensborough, Macleod, Mill Park and Yallambie. It also includes the central campus of La Trobe University. It lies within the Northern Metropolitan Region of the upper house, the Legislative Council.

Bundoora has been a safe seat for the Labor Party throughout its history. It was first contested in 1976, and was won by John Cain Jr., son of former Premier John Cain Sr.. He rapidly rose through the parliamentary ranks to become Labor leader in 1981 and Premier himself in 1982. Cain was comfortably re-elected throughout the 1980s, resigned as Premier in 1990, and retired as member for Bundoora at the 1992 election.

Cain was succeeded by Sherryl Garbutt, formerly the member for abolished Greensborough. Garbutt served as a shadow minister in opposition from 1993 to 1999, and after Labor regained government at the 1999 election served as a minister in the first two terms of the Bracks government. She respectively served as Minister for Women's Affairs (1999-2002), Minister for Environment and Conservation (1999-2002) and Minister for Community Services (2002-2006), before retiring at the 2006 election.