Legislative Council · Northern Metropolitan Region
Omar Hassan
Last verified 30 Sept 2026
Seat context — Northern Metropolitan Region›
Northern Metropolitan elects 5 MLCs and comprises 11 Legislative Assembly districts running in a narrow strip from the Melbourne CBD north to Wallan, including the Melbourne district profiled separately in this dataset. In 2022, Labor won 2 of 5 Council seats here, Liberal 1, Greens 1, and the 5th went to Adem Somyurek by just 0.16 quotas after minor-party preference flows. A bill abolishing group voting tickets for the Council has passed the Assembly and is scheduled for the Legislative Council's 11–13 August sitting.
Background
Platform
Where they stand, issue by issue — grounded in 2026 Victorian polling, not assumed. Every position is tagged with how we know it.
Increased funding for Victorian public schools, reversing privatisation of electricity, public transport and aged care, housing and education affordability, anti-racism and anti-war advocacy, and working-class solidarity.
"As a member and representative of the Victorian Socialists I will fight on every front for a better world—one free of poverty and billionaires, racism and war."
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
The party's fiscal policy would fund services with a 10% annual wealth tax on billionaires and a 20% bank profits tax; nothing on cost of living is attributed to Omar Hassan personally.
Crime and community safety
Names anti-racism and anti-war advocacy as priorities.
Housing affordability and supply
Names housing affordability as a priority.
The party's housing policy would cut all residential rents 25% then freeze them for five years, and build at least 15,000 public housing units a year for ten years.
State government debt and fiscal management
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Infrastructure and public transport delivery
Wants the privatisation of public transport reversed.
A summary of the party's transport policy says it would make public transport free.
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
Wants increased funding for Victorian public schools.
A summary of the party's education policy says it would provide universal preschool and childcare and end NAPLAN testing.
Health and healthcare access
Wants aged care privatisation reversed.
A summary of the party's health policy says it would fully fund public healthcare and expand free community clinics.
Urban planning and housing density
Not detailed in sources reviewed.
Climate and energy transition
Wants electricity privatisation reversed and is active in climate movements.
A summary of the party's energy policies says it would move to 100% publicly owned renewable energy.
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.
Their priorities match the Victorian Socialists' statewide platform. SSelf-stated — VS-OH, VS-POLICIESVictorian Socialists, "Omar Hassan"View sourceVictorian Socialists, "Policies"View source
Wikipedia's 2026 candidates table lists them under the Northern Metropolitan Region. RReported — WIKI-2026CANDSWikipedia, "Candidates of the 2026 Victorian state election"View source
Track record & prior candidacies
Their page mentions no prior campaign. SSelf-stated — VS-OHVictorian Socialists, "Omar Hassan"View source
No 2022 Council result for this candidate was retrieved.
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.
Omar Hassan has not previously contested a state election on the sources retrieved, and the Victorian Socialists's earlier results in this region were not retrieved.