2024 Victorian Liberal Party leadership spill

2024 Victorian Liberal Party leadership spill
	27 December 2024
	Spill motion
	Leadership election
Leader before election; John Pesutto;	Elected Leader ; Brad Battin;
	Deputy leadership election
Deputy Leader before election; David Southwick;	Elected Deputy Leader ; Sam Groth;
	Legislative Council leadership election
Leader in Legislative Council before election; Georgie Crozier;	Elected Leader in Legislative Council ; David Davis;
	Legislative Council deputy leadership election
Deputy Leader in Legislative Council before election; Evan Mulholland;	Elected Deputy Leader in Legislative Council ; Evan Mulholland;

The 2024 Victorian Liberal Party leadership spill took place on 27 December 2024 to elect the leader of the Victorian Liberal Party and, ex officio, Leader of the Opposition. Incumbent leader John Pesutto lost a spill motion and was replaced by Brad Battin in the subsequent leadership election.

The spill occurred two weeks after the Federal Court ruled Pesutto had defamed Independent Liberal MP Moira Deeming, who was expelled from the Liberal party room in 2023 after attending an anti-trans rally that had also been attended by a neo-Nazi group.

The positions of deputy leader, leader in the Legislative Council and deputy leader in the Legislative Council were also spilled. Sam Groth was elected unopposed to the deputy leadership after David Southwick stood down, David Davis took over from Georgie Crozier as Legislative Council leader after she did not recontest, and Evan Mulholland was returned as Legislative Council deputy leader after defeating challenger Bev McArthur by two votes.