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Federal division, outer-metropolitan

# Calwell

In Victoria.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Basem_Abdo_at_2025_Calwell_results_declaration_(cropped).JPG?width=96)**Basem Abdo** Labor, Calwell ](https://politics.computer/mp/basem-abdo)

About

## About Calwell

Calwell is a Victorian House of Representatives seat covering the outer north-western fringe of Melbourne, entirely within the City of Hume. Basem Abdo of the Australian Labor Party is the sitting member. The seat was created in 1984 and is named after Arthur Calwell.

Created

1984

Named after

Arthur Calwell, Minister for Immigration 1945–1949

Previous members

Andrew Theophanous (1984–2001); Maria Vamvakinou (2001–2025)

Area

Approximately 191 square kilometres

Classification

Outer-metropolitan

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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