The Buninyong electorate will be renamed Eureka for the 2022 state election, and Sebastopol will be moved to the Wendouree electorate.
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The new boundaries were released on Thursday morning, and will come into effect when the writs are issued for next year's election.
The Wendouree electorate loses Invermay Park and Mount Rowan but gains Sebastopol and Bonshaw to the south.
Brown Hill and Eureka will move to the new Eureka electorate, which gains Bacchus Marsh but loses most of Golden Plains Shire, including Smythesdale, to the Ripon electorate.
The final changes come after responses to the proposed boundaries released in June, which would have drastically altered Ballarat's state representation, and renamed the Wendouree electorate to Eureka as most of the suburb of Wendouree would move to Ripon.
However, according to the Electoral Boundaries Commission, after reviewing submissions from community groups and political parties, the decision was changed, and with the suburb of Eureka moving to the Buninyong electorate, and given the name's relevance to the goldfields history of the area, Buninyong will be renamed instead.
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The electoral boundaries are reviewed about every eight years, or after two state elections, and changes reflect how populations shift.
More than one million voters will have their electorate changed in 2022, even though their address has not changed.
"The EBC does not consider the political implications of the electoral boundaries in determining boundary changes," a media release states.
The EBC, an independent statutory agency, wrote in its reasons for the Ballarat changes that the city is stuck between having too many people for one representative, but too few people for two.
"The EBC acknowledges that the proposed boundaries in the Ballarat area could be improved," the report states.
"The proposed Ripon-(Wendouree) district boundary is clear but cuts through the suburb of Wendouree and the western suburbs of Ballarat. The district is neither urban nor rural but an awkward mixture of both, entailing a risk of perceived disenfranchisement for the Ballarat section, the rural areas, or both.
"Accordingly, the EBC has decided to return to the position that has applied since 1955, of dividing Ballarat more or less evenly between two districts."
The Buninyong and District Community Association made a submission earlier in the year to the EBC, noting its concern that the township would be left adrift if cut off from the rest of Ballarat.
However, secretary Kevin Zibell said he was happy with the final changes.
"There were a large number of submissions, it seems they have been listened to," he said.
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"The initial proposal was quite alarming for us but the compromise, I think, is pretty good.
"There was specific mention of trying to keep the community of interest together, and that was the essence of the submission that I made."
Interactive maps of the new districts, with the ability to search by address, are available on the EBC website.
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