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Division of Canning | Capricornia |
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Location: Perth: Armadale, Canning Vale, Kelmscott, Pinjarra Division named for: Alfred Canning, surveyor Median weekly family income: $913 (76th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 8.3% (80th highest) Persons born in the UK and Ireland: 16.0% (3rd highest) Persons in professional occupations: 18.4% (130th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 9.2% (124th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 40.8% (42nd highest) Dwellings being purchased: 43.5% (4th highest) Sitting member: Don Randall (Liberal), elected (for Swan) 1996, defeated 1998, elected (for Canning) 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 2 May 1953, Merredin, WA. Career: Teacher, marketing consultant. Councillor, Belmont City Council 1993-96. 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 00.7 Effect of 1998 redistribution: 00.7 shift to Liberal 1998 two-party majority: Labor 03.5 Effect of 2001 redistribution: 03.1 shift to Liberal 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 00.4 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 09.5 2007 two-party majority: Liberal 05.6 
2004 enrolment: 83,388 2007 enrolment: 94,679 (+13.5%) Canning was created in 1949, as a rural seat covering the southern part of the WA Wheat Belt. On these boundaries it was a very safe non-Labor seat, which changed hands several times between the Liberal Party and the Country Party. The 1980 redistribution turned it into an outer suburban seat based in Perth's south-eastern suburbs, and it has been politically marginal ever since. More recently it has been expanded to the south to take in semi-rural areas around Pinjarra, and coastal areas at Dawesville and Halls Head, although most of its votes are cast in suburban areas such as Armadale and Thornley. On its current boundaries it is a typical outer suburban mortgage belt seat, dominated by traditional families with children and mortgages, and thus sensitive to interest rates and other economic issues. It also has one of the highest proportions of immigrants from the UK of any electorate. Don Randall, previously member for Swan, defeated Labor's Jane Gerick in 2001. Gerick was intending to recontest the seat in 2004, but died suddenly in December 2003. Labor's difficulty in finding a new candidate allowed Randall to get one of the biggest swings of the 2004 election, with swings of 16% in some booths. In 2007 Labor only partly recouped these losses, gaining a swing of 3.9%. The Liberals polled 73% of the two-party vote at Karragullen and more than 65% at Bedfordale, Halls Head, Oakford and Yunderup. Labor polled 59% at Gosnells South. | |
 Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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