The unofficial federal election campaign is mounting in Victoria, and Monash University political scientist Nick Economou is predicting unusually tight races.
Across the country, political parties are preselecting candidates, and constituents are considering their options -- and the election has not even been called yet.
The state of Victoria is shaping up, though, as an especially interesting battle.
Victoria has traditionally been a Labor state.
While the Coalition has most of the lower-house seats in the regions, it is more evenly split closer to Melbourne.
And in metropolitan Melbourne, Labor has 13 seats to the Coalition's seven, and the Greens have one.
But there is movement in the ranks, some of it prompted by the retirement of long-standing MPs
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