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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Corio, Victoria
South-west of Melbourne: Corio, Geelong, Leopold, Norlane
Sitting member: Hon Richard Marles (Labor), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 107,782
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.8%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Richard Lange
Liberal Party |
2. Sue Bull
Socialist Alliance |
3. Hon Richard Marles
Australian Labor Party |
4. Ash Puvimanasinghe
Rise Up Australia |
5. Jeff Moran
Bullet Train For Australia |
6. Jamie Overend
Animal Justice Party |
7. Sarah Mansfield
Australian Greens |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Corio has existed since Federation, and has always been based on the provincial city of Geelong, though at times it has also included most of the western suburbs of Melbourne. Since the 1980s is has consisted only of Geelong and a few rural areas to the north. Like most regional seats it has a relatively low median income level and a low proportion of people in professional occupations. As a manufacturing centre, however, Geelong has a higher level of people born in non English speaking countries than most regional cities.
After being held by the Liberals through the 1950s and '60s, Corio has become a steadily stronger seat for Labor over the past 30 years. Members for Corio have included Liberal ministers Richard Casey and Sir Hubert Opperman and Labor ministers Jack Dedman and Gordon Scholes. Gavan O'Connor succeeded Scholes in 1993. He was on the opposition front bench, but in 2007 he was defeated in an acrimonious preselection battle, and contested the seat as an independent (with the usual result).
Richard Marles, Labor MP for Corio since 2007, is a lawyer, and was legal officer for the Transport Workers' Union of Australia and then assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions before his election. He was a parliamentary secretary from 2009, resigned in early 2013 during the Rudd-Gillard conflict, and returned briefly as Minister for Trade in the second Rudd Government. He is now shadow minister for immigration and border protection.
His Liberal opponent is Richard Lange, a former marketing manager with Meat and Livestock Australia.
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