The Box Hill electorate is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, about 12km from the city centre.

It takes in the suburbs of Box Hill, Box Hill North and Mont Albert and parts of Balwyn, North Balwyn, Surrey Hills and Canterbury.

It is within the Eastern Metropolitan Region of the Legislative Council.  The Members of Parliament for Eastern Metropolitan Region are:
Hon Bruce Atkinson MLC - Deputy President of the Legislative Council
Hon Richard Dalla-Riva MLC - Shadow Minister for Industry & State Development, Major Projects, Freedom of Information
Hon Jan Kronberg MLC
Hon Shaun Leane MLC
Hon Brian Tee MLC

The electorate takes in parts of two Federal electorates – Kooyong (Mr. Petro Georgiou M.P.) and Chisholm (Ms Anna Burke M.P.).

The electorate also takes in parts of both the City of Whitehorse and City of Boroondara.

Primary schools in the electorate are Balwyn, Boroondara Park, Box Hill North, Canterbury, Chatham, Greythorn, Kerrimuir, Mont Albert and Surrey Hills.  Secondary schools are Box Hill High School, Koonung Secondary College and Box Hill Senior Secondary College, a stand-alone Year 11 and 12 college.

Box Hill Institute of TAFE (Technical and Further Education) has most of its campuses within the electorate, including its main administrative campus at Elgar Road.

Box Hill also has a major public hospital within its boundaries – Box Hill Hospital, located in Nelson Road.

The electorate is served by the Lilydale and Belgrave train lines.   The Centro Box Hill shopping centre includes a transport exchange hub, with buses terminating on the upper levels of the Centre, while the trains pass below street level. The tram 109 service terminates in Whitehorse Road, adjacent to the Box Hill mall.   The tram 48 service borders the electorate, terminating at the corner of Doncaster and Balwyn Roads.

The main Box Hill business centre features two main shopping centres - Centro Box Hill and Centro Whitehorse - as well as many and varied other shops and professional and business offices. There are also several suburban shopping strips within the electorate, including Balwyn, Mont Albert, Kerrimuir, Greythorn and parts of Belmore Road.

The electorate is well-served by restaurants, with Chinese, Malaysian, Italian, Indian, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai and other cuisines.   Until 1999, restaurants could only have a BYO licence due to the "dry area" status of the electorate. Following a poll, restaurants in the Whitehorse part of the "dry area" can now obtain a full liquor licence.  However, Box Hill electorate remains one of the few in Victoria that does not sport a "local" pub!

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