Legislative Assembly · District of Greenvale
Jim Overend
Last verified 30 Sept 2026
Seat context — Greenvale›
Greenvale is a Labor-held seat in Melbourne's outer north-west, covering Greenvale, Attwood, Meadow Heights, Roxburgh Park, Somerton and Westmeadows. It was created for the 2022 election from parts of the former seat of Yuroke, and Labor's Iwan Walters won it with 41.5% of first preferences and 57.1% two-party-preferred against the Liberals' Usman Ghani, a 14.9-point swing against Labor and a margin of about 7 points. He is recontesting. The Tally Room notes an east-west divide between areas with larger Muslim populations and areas that are more European in background. The 2026 field found is five candidates: Walters, the Liberals' Jim Overend, One Nation's Chris Moore, the Victorian Socialists' Kirill Smelov and the Animal Justice Party's Rosanna Furina. No Greens candidate has been found, and Wikipedia's 2026 table leaves Moore and Smelov without party labels.
Background
Platform
Where they stand, issue by issue — grounded in 2026 Victorian polling, not assumed. Every position is tagged with how we know it.
Safer streets, better infrastructure and stronger local services.
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
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Crime and community safety
Wants safer streets.
Housing affordability and supply
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
State government debt and fiscal management
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Infrastructure and public transport delivery
Says his council advocacy helped secure duplication of Mickleham, Somerton and Craigieburn Roads and wants better infrastructure.
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
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Health and healthcare access
Wants stronger local services and is a disability employment advocate.
Urban planning and housing density
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Climate and energy transition
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Treaty and First Nations affairs
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Regional and rural Victoria
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
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.
The Tally Room and Wikipedia's 2026 candidates table list him as the Liberals' Greenvale candidate. RReported — TALLYROOM-GREENVALE, WIKI-2026CANDSThe Tally Room, "Greenvale — Victoria 2026"View sourceWikipedia, "Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election"View source
No personal or party policy detail was retrieved, so all issues are left empty.
Their profile presents them as part of Jess Wilson's Liberal team, and the policies it names are the party's own plan rather than independent positions of theirs. SSelf-stated — LIBV-JIM-OVERENDLiberal Victoria, "Jim Overend — Liberal candidate profile" (9 July 2026)View source
Track record & prior candidacies
Campaign, money & endorsements
Campaign logistics
Endorsements & Donations
Per the Victorian Electoral Commission's funding guidance (vec.vic.gov.au, accessed 2026-09-29 via search snippets of its independent-candidate and registered-party funding pages), a candidate is eligible for public election funding if they receive at least 4% of first-preference votes in their contest, or are elected. Funding is reimbursed against an audited statement of campaign expenditure, and advance funding must be repaid in full if the threshold is missed.
Overend has not previously contested this seat. The Liberals' 2022 Greenvale candidate polled 25.4%, well above the 4% mark.