Legislative Assembly · District of Pascoe Vale
Andrew Forehan
Last verified 11 Oct 2026
Seat context — Pascoe Vale›
Pascoe Vale is a Labor seat in Melbourne's inner north, taking in Pascoe Vale, Coburg and parts of Brunswick West, and held by Labor since 1985. Anthony Cianflone won it in 2022 with 38.8% of first preferences and 52.0% to 48.0% against the Greens' Angelica Panopoulos after preferences, and is recontesting. The 2026 field is five candidates: Cianflone, the Greens' Panopoulos (recontesting), the Victorian Socialists' Yasemin Shamsili, Socialist Alliance's Jacob Andrewartha and Family First's Kathrine Ashton. No Liberal candidate has been identified, although the Liberals took 21.0% in 2022. Wikipedia's 2026 candidates table lists several of these names under the wrong parties, so parties here follow each party's own pages.
Background
Platform
Where they stand, issue by issue — grounded in 2026 Victorian polling, not assumed. Every position is tagged with how we know it.
Party profile page lists his priorities as improving public safety, supporting local businesses, and strengthening access to mental health assistance for people who need support.
Describes him as a family man who understands the importance of safe and connected communities, and says he is committed to listening to residents and advocating for "practical change". No specific policies, numbers or local projects are attached.
What Victorians say matters most
5 poll-led issuesCost of living and crime have ranked 1st or 2nd in every Victorian poll since mid‑2025, with debt and housing close behind — see schema §3 for the polling this grouping is based on (DemosAU, Ipsos Issues Monitor, Roy Morgan). The 0-10 'priorityScore' on each candidate's issue entries is NOT a measure of true importance or an independent ranking of what a candidate actually cares about. It reflects how much detail and specificity exists in what that candidate has actually said publicly on that issue -- a named policy mechanism and a verified voting record score higher than a one-line stated priority, regardless of the issue's real-world weight. Render this distinction in the UI wherever the score appears; do not label it just 'Priority' without the qualifier.
Cost of living
No personal statement found. The One Nation Victoria cost-of-living policy page (party platform, not candidate-specific) pledges to wind back Labor's land tax increases on rental properties and small property owners, without promising to scrap the tax outright.
The same page pledges to lift the payroll tax threshold so more small employers are exempt, and to abolish the 10% stamp duty on home, contents and car insurance.
Crime and community safety
Lists improving public safety as a personal priority; no detail on bail, policing or youth crime from him.
One Nation Victoria's crime policy page was marked "update in progress" when reviewed, so no published party crime policy text was available.
State leader Warren Pickering has described crime as a key issue, said bail laws and sentences should match the crimes, and promised more police on the streets and staffed stations, with a "pragmatic approach, not an expensive one" to policing.
Housing affordability and supply
No personal statement found. Party platform pledges to review every government fee, tax and charge on new homes, release under-used government land, and put a legal time limit on planning and building approvals.
It also pledges to free up granny flats and spare-room rentals, raise the foreign purchaser duty on residential property, and offer incentives for private and community providers to build low-cost housing.
The platform attributes housing pressure partly to rapid population growth driven by net overseas migration.
State government debt and fiscal management
No personal statement found. The party's cost-of-living page says Victoria's debt under Labor is the highest in the country but sets out no debt-reduction plan, and the party's fiscal management policy page was marked "update in progress".
Asked how One Nation would pay for extra police, Pickering pointed to waste on the Suburban Rail Loop, renewable energy projects and the statewide treaty. This was a funding argument rather than a costed plan.
Infrastructure and public transport delivery
No personal statement found. Party platform pledges to cancel VNI West, the Western Renewable Energy Zone transmission line (WRL) and other large transmission projects.
Pickering has pointed to Suburban Rail Loop spending as waste, but no detailed party infrastructure or public transport policy was found.
Also on the record
6 substance issuesThese don't top “biggest issue” polling, but carry real 2026 policy weight and genuine differences between parties.
Education and training
No personal statement found. Party platform pledges to replace the Victorian Curriculum with a sequenced, knowledge-rich year-by-year syllabus, and to back systematic phonics, explicit instruction and mastery learning.
It also pledges workable behaviour protocols in every school, more trade schools and specialist and behaviour support settings, and school vouchers so public funding follows the student.
Health and healthcare access
Lists strengthening access to mental health assistance as a personal priority; no detail on services or funding from him.
Party platform pledges a statewide real-time waiting-list view, targets to treat Category 1 and 2 patients within clinically recommended times, and an end to chronic ambulance ramping.
It also pledges to guarantee 24/7 regional emergency departments, cut non-clinical bureaucracy (including standalone DEI and ESG programs) and redirect savings to nurses, doctors and beds. The health page excerpt reviewed does not itemise mental health services.
Urban planning and housing density
No personal statement found. Party platform pledges genuine community consultation before high-rise development is imposed on established suburbs, plus time limits on planning approvals.
Climate and energy transition
No personal statement found. Party platform pledges to scrap all net-zero targets and subsidies, cancel VNI West and WRL, and support upgrading coal power infrastructure.
It also pledges to repeal the Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983, reverse the ban on gas connections in new homes, and put Victorian gas demand first.
Pledges to ban industrial solar, wind, battery and transmission projects on irrigated, flood-prone, bushfire-prone and domestic-catchment land, and to disband the Western Renewable Energy Zone.
Treaty and First Nations affairs
No personal statement or dedicated party treaty policy page found. Pickering has named the statewide treaty as one of the areas of government spending he would look to for savings.
Regional and rural Victoria
No personal statement found, and Pascoe Vale is an inner-urban seat. The party's farming platform pledges to restrict water trading to those with land to irrigate, reinstate the 1,500 gigalitre buyback cap and give full allocations at season start.
It also pledges to reinstate the 35 fisheries officers cut in 2025, and the party's environment policy opposes the Great Forest National Park. The health platform guarantees 24/7 regional emergency departments.
Local & party context
2 fieldsNot scored the way the eleven issues above are — these are fixed facts about the seat and the party, not positions with more or less emphasis behind them.
Fielded and authorised by One Nation Victoria, with his page run from the party's state office. His stated priorities (public safety, mental health access, local business) overlap with the party's statewide law-and-order theme but are not itemised in the party's policy pages reviewed. SSelf-stated — ON-FOREHAN, ON-TVBOne Nation Victoria, "Andrew Forehan for Pascoe Vale"View sourceOne Nation Victoria, "Victoria, it's time to take our state back" (4 Aug 2026)View source
No evidence found of any divergence from One Nation Victoria's platform. SSelf-stated — ON-FOREHANOne Nation Victoria, "Andrew Forehan for Pascoe Vale"View source
Track record & prior candidacies
Campaign, money & endorsements
Campaign logistics
Endorsements & Donations
Under the VEC's public-funding rule as previously published, a candidate who receives at least 4% of first-preference votes in their contest, or is elected, is eligible for funding, capped at audited campaign expenditure and paid per vote (about $6.49 per vote in 2022 per press reports). A fresh VEC page confirming the 2026 rate could not be retrieved, so confirm the current figure against the VEC's funding guidance.
For context, the VEC's political-donations page (accessed 2026-10-11) lists the 2026 general donation cap as $5,190 per donor per recipient, and the disclosure threshold as $1,290.