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Federal division, outer-metropolitan

# Gorton

In Victoria.

## Sitting member

- [ **Alice Jordan-Baird** Labor, Gorton ](https://politics.computer/mp/alice-jordan-baird)

About

## About Gorton

Gorton is an outer-metropolitan federal electoral division in Victoria, in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne. It is held by Alice Jordan-Baird of the Australian Labor Party, who replaced long-serving member Brendan O'Connor after his retirement in 2025\. Her ads focus on the topics listed on this page.

Created

2004, replacing the abolished Division of Burke

Named after

Sir John Gorton, 19th prime minister of Australia

Previous member

Brendan O'Connor, retired in 2025

Sitting member's party

Australian Labor Party

Suburbs included

Aintree, Caroline Springs, Deer Park, Keilor, Taylors Hill and others

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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