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La Trobe

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Projection for La Trobe

ONP
27.5%
ALP
27.3%
LIB
24.6%
GRN
15.4%

The line traces La Trobe's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for provincial seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in Vic.'s own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for La Trobe, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 37% of simulations
Labor 57.9%
Coalition (Liberal) 42.1%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. Genuine toss-up: a single snapshot count of today's polling would have One Nation narrowly ahead instead (a 6.4% margin). The split shown above is the median result from just the simulated outcomes where Labor actually wins, out of a 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation built on the same real preference-flow model.

Get to know the electorate

La Trobe

4.4%
Unemployment rate
0.7pt below Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Provincial
Created
1949
Size
1,303 km²
Current member
Jason Wood (Liberal)
Population
169,469
Median age
34
Median household income
$1,976/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
0.8%

Ancestry

European
46.7%
Australian
30.9%
Asian
7.1%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
70.1%
Punjabi
4.1%
Sinhalese
3.2%
Mandarin
1.4%
Hindi
1.2%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
38.7%
Christian
25.7%
Hinduism
4.7%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

High School
37.1%
TAFE Educated
30.5%
University Educated
22.4%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Owned (Active Mortgage)
54%
Renting
23%
Owned (No Mortgage)
21%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
53%
Blue collar
45%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | La Trobe

20222025Projection
ALP26.1%32.1%27.3%
LIB45.6%39.1%24.6%
GRN10.9%12.9%15.4%
ONP5.0%7.7%27.5%
Other12.5%8.1%5.3%

Latest update: 2 October 2026