THE Liberals have preselected a candidate to run for Carrum at the November state election.
Bec Buchanan has been endorsed as the Liberals’ candidate for Carrum. She will hope to win the seat which was last held by the Liberals in 2014.
Carrum has been held by Labor’s Sonya Kilkenny since 2014. Kilkenny won re-election in 2018 with a huge 12 per cent margin, and has since been appointed into the state government’s ministry.
Buchanan’s candidacy was confirmed online last weekend. Her website reads that she has lived in either the Frankston or Carrum electorate for the last 48 years.
“Bec has spent her professional life working in the Carrum community, having worked with the National Australia Bank (NAB) at the Chelsea branch. Bec worked at Flinders College for 15 years, where her children attended and thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful community of the Flinders families, staff and students. Undertaking training as a youth worker, Bec was a volunteer for four years at Frankston High School and the Frankston YMCA at Delacombe Park,” her profile reads.
“Bec values the power of community and is passionate about people and families having access to affordable living and a government that makes good decisions that benefit the Victorian people first. Bec is looking forward to hearing about your concerns and ideas for the area, working with you to deliver real solutions for the electorate of Carrum and the state of Victoria.”
The Liberals have preselected Phillip Pease in Mordialloc and former mayor Michael O’Reilly in Frankston.
The News asked Buchanan which major projects she is planning to advocate for during the election campaign. She did not respond by publication deadline.
The state election will take place on 26 November.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 31 August 2022