Electoral district of Buninyong

Buninyong; Victoria—Legislative Assembly
	Location of Buninyong (dark green) in Victoria
State	Victoria
Created	2014
MP	Geoff Howard
Party	Labor
Electors	40,891 (2014)
Area	3,107 km2 (1,199.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Regional City

The Electoral district of Buninyong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election.^[1]

It largely covers the area of the abolished district of Ballarat East, covering south and southeast suburbs of Ballarat as well as the rural areas to the south and east of the city. It includes the suburbs of Eureka, Canadian, Sebastopol, Mount Clear, Buninyong and Golden Point. It also includes the rural towns between Linton, Corindhap, Lethbridge, Ballan and Bungaree.^[2]

Buninyong was first contested at the 2014 election, and was won by the outgoing Labor MP for abolished Ballarat East, Geoff Howard.^[3]

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Geoff Howard	Labor	2014–present

Victorian state election, 2014: Buninyong
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Geoff Howard	15,984	43.5	+2.7
	Liberal	Ben Taylor	12,829	35.0	−7.5
	Greens	Tony Goodfellow	4,017	10.9	−0.4
	National	Sonia Smith	2,301	6.3	+5.5
	Family First	Keith Geyer	950	2.6	−0.7
	Country Alliance	James Keays	622	1.7	+0.6
Total formal votes			36,703	95.2	−0.1
Informal votes			1,852	4.8	+0.1
Turnout			38,555	94.3	+5.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Geoff Howard	20,697	56.4	+4.8
	Liberal	Ben Taylor	16,006	43.6	−4.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+4.8