Lalor voters will have more places to vote when they go to the polls in July.
The Australian Electoral Commission has axed one polling centre and added four new ones in Lalor following a nationwide review of the federal election centres.
In Lalor, a former polling centre in Laverton will not be used on election day, July 2, while new centres will open at Alamanda P-9 College in Point Cook, Tarneit College, Truganina P-9 College and Wyndham Vale Primary School.
Overall, voters in the electorate – which covers all of Wyndham and sections of Hobsons Bay – will have 31 polling centres from which to choose.
Incumbent Labor MP Joanne Ryan will recontest her seat, which she won in the 2013 election after former prime minister Julia Gillard bowed out of politics.
Ms Ryan, a Werribee local and former school teacher and principal, suffered a 10 per cent swing against her in the last election.
To date, Gayle Murphy from the Liberals and Greens Party candidate Daniel Sova have put their hands up to contest the seat.
Created in 1949, the Lalor electorate has only been held once by a non-Labor MP. That was from 1966-69 when the representative was Liberals’ Mervyn Lee.
