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Federal division, outer-metropolitan

# Deakin

In Victoria.

## Sitting member

- [ **Matt Gregg** Labor, Deakin ](https://politics.computer/mp/matt-gregg)

About

## About Deakin

Deakin is a federal electoral division in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, covering most of the City of Maroondah and parts of Whitehorse and Manningham. It is held by Matt Gregg of the Australian Labor Party, who is the sitting member for the House of Representatives seat. Matt Gregg's advertising on Facebook and Instagram focuses on the topics listed in our ad data.

Created

1937, named after Alfred Deakin

Classification

Outer-metropolitan

Chamber

House of Representatives

Previous member

Michael Sukkar, Liberal Party, defeated in 2025

Deakin has usually been held by

the Liberal Party

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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