Williamstown by-election, 2007

The Williamstown by-election, 2007 was a by-election held on September 15, 2007 for the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Williamstown in suburban Melbourne.

The by-election was triggered when Steve Bracks, the Australian Labor Party member for Williamstown and outgoing Premier, resigned from politics on July 30, 2007. Bracks had held the seat since 1994, and had been leader of the state Labor Party since 1999, serving as Premier from 1999 to 2007. Williamstown is generally considered a safe seat for the ALP, and Bracks' predecessor in the seat, Joan Kirner, was also a former Premier.

With the resignation of Premier Steve Bracks on July 30 2007, a by-election was required. On 4 August 2007 Janet Rice was confirmed to be the candidate for The Greens, the previous day (August 3, 2007) the Liberal Party had confirmed that they would not run a candidate. This left Janet Rice as the person most likely to displace an ALP candidate, although she would need to greatly improve upon the vote that the Greens received in the 2006 state election. Former Transport Workers Union of Australia assistant secretary Wade Noonan held the seat for Labor. [cite web
title =Williamstown District By-Election 2007: Albert Park District
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publisher =Victorian Electoral Commission
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url =http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/stateby2007resultWilliamstownDistrict.html
accessdate =2007-10-11 ]

{| class="wikitable"
- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan="8"|Williamstown state by-election, September 15, 2007
- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="width: 230px"|Party! rowspan="2" style="width: 170px"|Candidate! rowspan="2" style="width: 40px"|Votes! rowspan="2" style="width: 40px"|%! rowspan="2" style="width: 40px"|+/–! colspan="2" style="width: 80px"|Two-party preferred
-! style="width: 40px"|Votes! style="width: 40px"|%
-
Australian_politics/party_colours/Labor
style="width: 200px"| Australian Labor Party
Wade Noonan
align=right|16,775
align=right|55.74
align=right|-5.96
align=right|19,278
align=right|64.10
-
Australian_politics/party_colours/Greens
style="width: 200px"| Australian Greens
Janet Rice
align=right|6,592
align=right|21.90
align=right|+9.54
align=right|10,797
align=right|35.90
-
Independent
Catherine Cumming
align=right|2,703
align=right|8.98
align=right|N/A
colspan="2" rowspan="7"|
-
Australian_politics/party_colours/Family First
Family First
Veronica Hayes
align=right|1,472
align=right|4.89
align=right|+0.44
-
Democratic Labor Party
Vern Hughes
align=right|780
align=right|2.59
align=right|N/A
-
Independent
Janis Rossiter
align=right|648
align=right|2.15
align=right|N/A
-
Independent
Vivienne Millington
align=right|485
align=right|1.61
align=right|N/A
-
Independent
Nathan Tavendale
align=right|331
align=right|1.10
align=right|N/A
-
Independent
Wajde Assaf
align=right|311
align=right|1.03
align=right|+0.22
-

Informals
align=right|2,193
align=right|6.79
align=right|+1.16

Total Enrolment: 38,034 Formal Votes: 30,111 Informal Votes: 2,193 (6.79%) Total Votes: 32,304 (84.93% of enrolled voters)

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