Voters in the marginal seat of Corangamite have been the target of perhaps the biggest pork-barrelling campaign in modern electoral history, showered with the equivalent of $26,500 each if they vote Liberal.

Forty-one separate proposals, from a $2 billion fast train linking the electorate to Melbourne to $1500 on safety equipment for the Bannockburn men's shed, are on offer from the Liberal Party's Sarah Henderson to the electorate's 111,000 voters.

Chris Leibhardt from Torquay says politicians are splashing cash simply to buy votes. Credit:Jason South

In total, more than $3 billion worth of pledges have been made in a seat that, after a recent redistribution which effectively made it line-ball with the Labor Party, has encouraged pork-barrelling to a new level.

Labor has not been scant with its promises to the voters of Corangamite, with its candidate Libby Coker offering up 14 promises of her own. In total they would cost a much more modest $34 million, with the single largest pledge being $15 million to upgrade the Torquay community hospital.