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Federal division, outer-metropolitan

# Bruce

In Victoria.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Julian_Hill_MP.jpg?width=96)**Julian Hill** Labor, Bruce ](https://politics.computer/mp/julian-hill)

About

## About Bruce

Bruce is a federal electoral division in Victoria, covering south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It is held by Julian Hill of the Australian Labor Party, who has represented the seat since the 2016 federal election. The division is classified as outer-metropolitan.

Created

1955

Named after

Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister from 1923 to 1929

Area

Approximately 115 square kilometres

Held by the same party since

1996 election (Australian Labor Party)

Classification

Outer-metropolitan

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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