There will be eight candidates contesting the rural and safe Labor seat of Macedon at the election on November 26.
The seat stretches across Macedon Ranges and Hepburn, with parts of Mount Alexander and Mooralbool council areas also considered part of the district. Major towns include Macedon, Woodend, Gisborne, Lancefield, Romsey, Kyneton, Malmsbury, Daylesford and Hepburn Springs.
Labor’s Mary-Anne Thomas, Health and Ambulance Services Minister, has held the seat since 2014, sitting on a comfortable margin of 13.4 per cent.
Candidates contesting the seat include: Ms Thomas (Labor), Dominic Bonanno (Liberal), Marley McRae McLeod (Greens), Huntly Barton (Independent), Kerryn P Sedgman (Freedom Party of Victoria), Chris McCormack (Family First Victoria), Amanda Evezard (Pauline Hanson’s One Nation) and Iris Bergmann (Animal Justice Party).
After the redistribution of state electorate boundaries in 2020-21, Macedon lost 641 voters to the seat of Melton (Toolern Vale).
