Electorates A-Z – VIC Election 2022

Your vote for climate in the Victorian election will make all the difference.

Why the Victorian state election matters

State governments have enormous power over decisions that affect the climate.

The Victorian government might look ok from a distance, but up close it has:

• Made electric vehicles more expensive with the country’s only tax on driving an EV
• Approved new gas drilling near the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road
• Broken an election promise to protect old growth forests from logging

During the recent Federal Election, we prepared climate emergency voting guides for 151 electorates and eight senate tickets. We are now empowering Victorians to elect a majority of members in both houses of parliament who will act urgently on the climate crisis.

Vote Climate One provided the means for Australians to elect pro-climate members and defeat sitting members who, by party affiliation or demonstrated voting record, have shown themselves to be the opponents of effective action on climate.

Your climate vote can help to hold the two major parties to account. The recent rise of community independents and the corresponding demise of support for the two major parties is a hopeful sign. The influence and wisdom of these independent representatives has the capacity to transform our democracy. 

Above the line voting in Victorian Upper House means you run the risk of supporting back room preference deals which will not help elect candidates committed to climate action.

For this reason we strongly recommend you go to the trouble to vote below the line in the Victorian Legislative Council.

Test Drive our voting guide below

This is a sample of what a 2018 Upper House Traffic Light Voting Guide would have perhaps looked like for the South-East Metro Region.

Do a test run

To do a practical test for understanding how the Traffic Light System works and how to vote below the line, print the Voting Guide and also a ballot paper. Try filling in the boxes on the ballot paper using the instructions from the Traffic Light Voting Guide. We aim to have the 2022 guides available for use on the website, for the current election, by Monday May 14th. when the ballot draw is complete, and pre-polling begins.