Adam Carr's Election Archive
Commonwealth of Australia
Electoral Divisions of the House of Representatives
Division of Bendigo, Victoria
The Division of Bendigo was created in 1901. It is named for the City of Bendigo. The site of the city was originally called Bendigo's Creek, named for a local prize-fighter whose nickname Bendigo was derived from the English boxer William Abednigo Thompson, known as Bendigo.
REDISTRIBUTIONS
1901: Bendigo, Eaglehawk, Golden Square, Heathcote
1906: Bendigo, Eaglehawk, Golden Square
1913: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Eaglehawk, Golden Square
1922: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Eaglehawk, Kyneton
1937: Bendigo, Eaglehawk, Echuca, Rochester
1949: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Golden Square, Maryborough
1955: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Golden Square, Seymour
1969: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Kilmore, Seymour
1977: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Kilmore, Seymour
1984: Bendigo, Maryborough, St Arnaud, Stawell
1990: Bendigo, Maldon, Maryborough, St Arnaud
1996: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Maldon, Maryborough
2004: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Maldon, Maryborough
2013: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Maldon, Woodend
2018: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Maldon, Woodend
2021: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Kyneton, Maldon
2025: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Kyneton, Rochester
TWO-PARTY MAJORITIES
1901: Protectionist unopposed
1903: Protectionist 01.1
1906: Anti-Socialist 01.7
1910: Liberal 01.4
1913: Labor 02.0
1914: Labor 05.1
1915b: Labor 00.9
1917: Nationalist 07.4
1919: Nationalist 05.0
1922: Nationalist 01.7
1925: Nationalist 03.5
1928: Nationalist 03.1
1929: Labor 05.1
1931: United Australia 09.5
1934: United Australia 01.6
1937: Country Party 06.9
1940: Country Party 07.5
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1943: Country Party 02.3
1946: Country Party 05.1
1949: Labor 00.2
1951: Labor 03.6
1954: Labor 05.8
1955: Labor 01.2
1958: Labor 00.3
1960b: Labor 00.2
1961: Labor 04.2
1963: Labor 02.6
1966: Labor 03.0
1969: Labor 03.0
1972: Liberal 00.2
1974: Liberal 00.8
1975: Liberal 06.7
1977: Liberal 08.5
1980: Liberal 01.3
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1983: Labor 02.8
1984: Labor 02.0
1987: Labor 03.4
1990: Liberal 01.1
1993: Liberal 00.1
1996: Liberal 00.9
1998: Labor 03.5
2001: Labor 03.6
2004: Labor 01.0
2007: Labor 06.1
2010: Labor 09.5
2013: Labor 01.3
2016: Labor 03.7
2019: Labor 09.0
2022: Labor 12.1
2025: Labor 01.4
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ENROLMENTS
ELECTION RESULTS 1901-2025
Click here to see full results for Bendigo at every election since 1901.
MEMBERS FOR BENDIGO
Hon Sir John Quick (Prot, Lib) 1901-13
John Arthur (ALP) 1913-14
Alfred Hampson (ALP) 1915b-17
Rt Hon Billy Hughes (Nat) 1917-22
Geoffry Hurry (Nat) 1922-29
Richard Keane (ALP) 1929-31
Eric Harrison (UAP) 1931-37
George Rankin (CP) 1937-49
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Hon Percy Clarey (ALP) 1949-60
Noel Beaton (ALP) 1960b-69
David Kennedy (ALP) 1969b-72
John Bourchier (Lib) 1972-83
John Brumby (ALP) 1983-90
Hon Bruce Reid (Lib) 1990-98
Steve Gibbons (ALP) 1998-2013
Lisa Chesters (ALP) 2013-
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| Hon Sir John Quick (Prot, Lib) 1901-13 |
John Arthur (ALP) 1913-14 |
Alfred Hampson (ALP) 1915-17 |
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| Rt Hon Billy Hughes (Nat) 1917-22 |
Geoffry Hurry (Nat) 1922-29 |
Richard Keane (ALP) 1929-31 |
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| Eric Harrison (UAP) 1931-37 |
George Rankin (CP) 1937-49 |
Hon Percy Clarey (ALP) 1949-60 |
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| Noel Beaton (ALP) 1960-69 |
David Kennedy (ALP) 1969-72 |
John Bourchier (Lib) 1972-83 |
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| John Brumby (ALP) 1983-90 |
Bruce Reid (Lib) 1990-1998 |
Steve Gibbons (ALP) 1998-2013 |
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| Lisa Chesters (ALP) 2013- |
CURRENT BOUNDARIES
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EARLIER BOUNDARIES
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