Four federal election candidates are so far vying for the seat of Holt, which includes parts of the Cranbourne area.
More candidates are likely to enter the race as the campaign unfolds.
The declared candidates so far are the incumbent Labor MP Cassandra Fernando, Annette Samuel of the Liberal Party, Payal Tiwari of the Greens, and Trevor Hammond of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.
Labor’s Cassandra Fernando won Holt in 2022 with a notional post-redistribution margin of 7.1 per cent over the then-Liberal candidate. It has been considered a fairly safe seat for Labor.
The boundary of Holt was realigned last year, and it lost around 7,000 voters in Cranbourne North to Bruce with no change to the Labor margin for Holt.
The seat now covers Cranbourne, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne South, Cranbourne West, part of Cranbourne North, Clyde, part of Clyde North, Hampton Park, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst, part of Narre Warren South, Botanic Ridge, Junction Village, Devon Meadows, Pearcedale, Tooradin, Blind Bight, Cannons Creek, and Warneet.
Holt has been held by Labor since 1980.
According to the latest polling of YouGov, Labor is the projected likely winner with a 4.4 per cent margin.
