Below is a mock up of a Traffic Light Voting Guide for Footscray. The actual Footscray guide for voters will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.

Below is a mock up of a Traffic Light Voting Guide for the Victorian Upper House in the WESTERN METROPOLITAN REGION. The actual guide for voters will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.

Voting Traffic Light in the 2026 Victorian State Election

You will receive two ballot papers to vote for your preferred candidates in the Victorian House of Assembly and the Victorian Legislative Council .

To vote Traffic Light, vote for all the Green Light candidates or parties first, then the Orange Light ones. Number the red light candidates last.

Red light candidates are threat to achieving a fair future for us all not just in relation to Climate Rescue, but also a range of social issues most of us are concerned about. The order you number the Red Light candidates will have a significant effect on creating a good outcome at this election. We describe this advice as Strategic Preferencing. Strategic Preferencing combined with your Traffic Light Voting Guide will turbo charge the effectiveness of your vote in Red Light electorates.

Strategic Preferencing in the Footscray District (How to turbo-charge your vote!)

Footscray is a Red Light electorate held by the Labor Party. We strongly advise to you preference the Labor candidate last. You have three other Green Light candidates to vote for. Fortunately for Footscray residents, one those three is an Outstanding Green Light candidate and a very worthy independent.

Strategic Preferencing in the Western Metropolitan Region

Whether you vote below, or above the line, number One Nation or their candidates stone motherless last. The divisiveness promoted by this party will tear us apart. Your vote can help to exclude them from minority government and preserve our capacity to restore social cohesion. They have the unhinged capacity to take a wrecking ball to the good influence of the Legislative Council.

To do this effectively you will need to fill in all the boxes either above the line or below the line.

Outstanding Green Light Candidates

Jess Marsh Community Independent

What Jess is fighting for

For too long, our community has been taken for granted as a safe seat rather than a priority. We have carried more than our fair share of pollution, poor planning and broken promises, while missing out on the investment that other electorates have received.

As your community independent, I will answer only to the people of Footscray.

These are the issues I will fight for every day.

Our vision

A Future We Can Be Proud Of

Our children deserve a healthier, fairer, more sustainable and more hopeful Footscray than the one we inherited.

We have a proud industrial past. The West built this city.

Now we need a long-term vision for the future of the Inner West, beyond electoral cycles.

I will fight for:

• ▸Cleaner air and neighbourhoods.
• ▸Cleaning up legacy industrial pollution.
• ▸Climate action that delivers local benefits.
• ▸Coherent and long-term policy and planning that reflects community needs and protects what makes Footscray special.
• ▸Better community support and health outcomes.
• ▸Stronger local businesses, and a thriving, accessible and safe CBD.
• ▸Protection and expansion of green spaces.
• ▸Flood resilience and healthy waterways.
• ▸Expanded and improved public education options.
• ▸Strengthened government integrity and oversight.
• ▸Protection of our inclusive and diverse community, rejecting the politics of division.

My commitment

I will always listen first.

I will make decisions based on evidence and consultation.

I will work constructively with whoever forms government.

And I will always put the people of Footscray ahead of political convenience and vested interests.

The positions below will continue to evolve and develop in line with the best available evidence, informed by ongoing community listening.

1. Clean Air, Healthy Communities

2. Planning That Puts Communities First

3. People Before Data Centres

4. A Safer, More Vibrant Footscray

5. Meaningful Cost of Living Solutions

6. Protect, Restore and Expand Our Green Spaces

7. Healthy Rivers and Flood Resilience

8. Great Public Education Close to Home

9. Lifting Government Integrity

10. Celebrating Our Diverse Community

Vote Climate One Assessment

Jess has been assessed by the Team at Vote Climate One as an Outstanding Greeen Light candidate.

1. If I am elected to the next Victorian Parliament, I will support real action on issues relating to the ecological and climate emergency.
2. I support the application of the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord to inform, when relevant, my position and advocacy on legislation and policy.