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Federal division, provincial

# La Trobe

In Victoria.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jason_Wood_Assistant_Minister.jpg?width=96)**Jason Wood** Liberal, La Trobe ](https://politics.computer/mp/jason-wood)

About

## About La Trobe

La Trobe is a federal electoral division in the House of Representatives, located in Victoria. It is currently held by Jason Wood of the Liberal Party of Australia. The division is a semi-urban electorate covering most of the Shire of Cardinia and a small part of the City of Casey, extending from Melbourne's outer south-east towards Gippsland.

Created

1949

Named after

Charles La Trobe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria

First member

Richard Casey, later Governor-General of Australia

Classification

Provincial

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

## Other divisions in Victoria

- [Aston](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/aston)
- [Ballarat](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/ballarat)
- [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)

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