Changes have been approved by the Victorian Parliament, redrawing the state’s electoral district boundaries.

The changes have been made to “restore the electorates to approximate equality”, according to official documents.

Just two previous districts have been left unchanged as the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission replaces fifteen existing districts with 15 new ones.

The districts to be abolished are; Ballarat East, Ballarat West, Benalla, Clayton, Derrimut, Doncaster, Keilor, Kilsyth, Lyndhurst, Mitcham, Murray Valley, Rodney, Scoresby, Seymour and Swan Hill.

Those districts will be replaced by new ones, namely; Buninyong, Clarinda, Croydon, Eildon, Euroa, Keysborough, Murray Plains, Ovens Valleys, Ringwood, Rowville, St Albans, Sunbury, Sydenham, Wendouree and Werribee.

There have been significant changes in many of the districts which have survived the shake-up. It would be worth any resident having a look at a map of the new lines, especially in Carrum where only 47 per cent of electors in the old boundaries continue to live within the new ones.

Nearly thirty per cent of Victorian electors (1,068,389 in total) have been transferred to different districts

The electoral regions have not been so heavily rearranged. The Victorian EBC has kept the same regions for the time being, largely covering the same areas and comprised of the same districts. There have, however, been a few hundred thousand voters transferred to the new regions.

Maps of the previous and new districts and regions for the entire state are available from the EBC’s website.