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| Australian federal election, 2 July 2016
Division of Moore, Western Australia
Northern Perth: Duncraig, Hillarys, Joondalup, Kingsley
Sitting member: Ian Goodenough (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 99,916
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.9%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 12.4%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Ian Goodenough
Liberal Party |
2. Daniel Lindley
Australian Greens |
3. Maryka Groenewald
Australian Christians |
4. Tony Walker
Australian Labor Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Moore was created in 1949, as a rural seat occupying the northern half of the Wheat Belt. On these boundaries it was a safe non-Labor seat, changing hands between the Liberal and Country parties. In 1980 it was changed into a part-rural, part-suburban seat on the northern fringes of Perth, and became politically marginal. In 1990 it was changed again a into suburban seat, along the northern beachside suburbs of Perth. It is now a classic mortgage belt seat, with high levels of families with dependent children and wellings being purchased, though it is more affluent than most seats of this type. It also has the highest proportion of people born in the UK of any seat: one-fifth of the voters are British-born. All these factors make Moore a fairly safe Liberal seat on the current boundaries.
Dr Malcolm Washer won Moore for the Liberals in 1998, defeating Paul Filing, the former Liberal member who had lost his Liberal preselection in 1996 but retained the seat as an independent. Washer spent 15 years on the backbench, but became a respected figure and a dissident on some issues. He retired in 2013.
Ian Goodenough, Liberal MP for Moore since 2013, is an accountant and was a company director before his election. He was also a member of Wanneroo City Council. He was born in Singpore of Chinese and English ancestry.
The Labor candidate is Tony Walker, WA President of the Independent Education Union.
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Other seats of interest
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