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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Durack, Western Australia
Northern Western Australia: Broome, Geraldton, Merredin, Port Hedland
Sitting member: Melissa Price (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 97,347
2013 Liberal majority over Nationals 4.0%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor 14.9%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Nationals 3.9%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor 15.2%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Ian James
Australian Greens |
2. Carol Martin
Australian Labor Party |
3. Grahame Gould
Australian Christians |
4. Mitchell Sambell
Rise Up Australia |
5. Melissa Price
Liberal Party |
6. Lisa Cole
The Nationals |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Durack was created by the 2010 Western Australian redistribution, which abolished the Federation seat of Kalgoorlie and put the City of Kalgoorlie into O'Connor, thus requiring a new name for the seat covering the northern half of the state. The seat consists of the northern half of the WA wheatbelt, formerly in O'Connor, and the Kimblerley and Pilbara regions in the north, formerly in Kalgoorlie.
The southern part of the seat is heavily agricultural, with the low levels of family income and of people in professional occupations typical of such areas. The northern part is devoted to the mining and pastoral industries, and is rather wealthier. It also has a substantial Indigenous population, and the state seat of Kimberley usually elects an Indigenous (Labor) member.
Barry Haase, who had been MP for Kalgoorlie since 1998, was elected the first member for Durack in 2010. At the same election, the Nationals defeated Wilson Tuckey, the veteran Liberal MP for O'Connor. Encouraged by this, the Nationals made a serious bid for Durack in 2013, when Haase retired. The result was very close, with the Liberals hanging on by 1%.
Melissa Price, Liberal MP for Durack since 2013, was a solictor and corporate lawyer in the mining industry before her election.
With three years of incumbency, and with the Nationals making a very late run for the seat, she is probably safe, with a notional majority of 15.2% over Labor.
Her Labor opponent will be Carol Martin, who was Labor MLA for Kimberley from 2001 to 2013. At the end of May the Nationals announced that Lisa Cole, described only
as "a mother", would be their candidate.
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