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Federal division, provincial

# Ballarat

In Victoria.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catherine_King_Headshot.JPG?width=96)**Catherine King** Labor, Ballarat ](https://politics.computer/mp/catherine-king)

About

## About Ballarat

Ballarat is a provincial federal electoral division in Victoria, covering the City of Ballarat and surrounding towns including Daylesford, Clunes and Creswick. It is held by Catherine King of the Australian Labor Party, who has held the seat since 2001\. The division was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 65 divisions contested at the first federal election.

Classification

Provincial

Chamber

House of Representatives

Named after

Provincial city of Ballarat, after a local Wathawurrung word

Proclaimed

1900

Current member

Catherine King, Australian Labor Party

Held by the same party since

2001

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FBallarat), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Ballarat whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Ballarat yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Ballarat are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

## Other divisions in Victoria

- [Aston](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/aston)
- [Bendigo](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/bendigo)
- [Bruce](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/bruce)
- [Calwell](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/calwell)
- [Casey](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/casey)
- [Chisholm](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/chisholm)
- [Cooper](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/cooper)
- [Corangamite](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/corangamite)
- [Corio](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/corio)
- [Deakin](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/deakin)
- [Dunkley](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/dunkley)
- [Flinders](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/flinders)
- [Fraser](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/fraser)
- [Gellibrand](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/gellibrand)
- [Gippsland](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/gippsland)
- [Goldstein](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/goldstein)
- [Gorton](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/gorton)
- [Hawke](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/hawke)
- [Holt](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/holt)
- [Hotham](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/hotham)
- [Indi](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/indi)
- [Isaacs](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/isaacs)
- [Jagajaga](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/jagajaga)
- [Kooyong](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/kooyong)

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