Victorian state election, 2010

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27 November 2010

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All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
45 seats were needed for a majority
All 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council

	First party	Second party

Leader	Ted Baillieu	John Brumby
Party	Liberal/National coalition	Labor
Leader since	8 May 2006	30 July 2007
Leader's seat	Hawthorn	Broadmeadows
Last election	32 seats	55 seats
Seats won	45 seats	43 seats
Seat change	13	12
Percentage	51.58%	48.42%
Swing	5.96	5.96

Premier before election

John Brumby
Labor

Premier after election

Ted Baillieu
Liberal/National coalition

John Brumby
Labor

Ted Baillieu
Liberal/National coalition

The 2010 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 27 November 2010, was for the 57th Parliament of Victoria. The election was to elect all 88 members of the Legislative Assembly and all 40 members of the Legislative Council. The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party government, led by John Brumby, was defeated by the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition opposition, led by Ted Baillieu. The election gave the Coalition a one-seat majority in both houses of parliament.

Victoria has compulsory voting and uses a mandatory preferential ballot in single-member seats for elections to the Legislative Assembly. By contrast, the single transferable vote in multi-member districts is used for elections to the Legislative Council. The election was conducted by the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC).

At the 1999 election, the Labor Party led by Steve Bracks was able to form a minority government with the parliamentary support of 3 Independents, displacing the incumbent Jeff Kennett Liberal/National Coalition government. Labor was returned with a majority government after a landslide win at the 2002 election. Labor was elected for a third term at the 2006 election with a substantial but reduced majority. Labor won 55 of the 88 seats, a decrease of 7, and 54.4 percent of the two-party preferred vote, a decrease of 3.4 percent. Brumby replaced Bracks as Labor leader and Premier of Victoria in 2007.

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