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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Pearce, Western Australia
North and east of Perth: Ellenbrook, Northam, Yanchep, York
Sitting member: Hon Christian Porter (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 104,451
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 8.1%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 9.3%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Hon Christian Porter
Liberal Party |
2. Thomas French
Australian Labor Party |
3. Lee-Anne Miles
Australian Greens |
4. Maddison Simmonds
The Nationals |
5. Taffy Samuriwo-Vuntarde
Rise Up Australia |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Pearce was created in 1990, in the outer eastern and northern suburbs of Perth, one of the fastest-growing areas in Australia. The 2004 redistribution extended it into rural areas south-east of Perth, but the bulk of its votes are still cast in the Perth suburbs. It is a classic mortgage belt seat with a very high proportion of dwellings being purchased and a high level of families with dependent children. It also has the high level of people born in the UK typical of Perth seats.
Pearce was won in 1990 by Fred Chaney, a senior Liberal who had been a Senator since 1974. He quit in frustration at the state of the Liberal Party in 1993, and was succeeded by Judi Moylan, who was a minister in the first Howard Government. After she was dropped from the ministry in 1998 she became a backbench dissident, particularly on immigration issues, until her retirement in 2013.
Christian Porter, Liberal MP for Pearce since 2013, was a lawyer, state prosecutor and law lecturer before he entered politics. He was WA state MP from 2008 to 2013 and was Attorney-General and then Treasurer in the state government. Once in Canberra he was rapidly promoted and is now Minister for Social Services.
The 2016 redistribution has removed much of the eastern suburban area of the seat, leaving mainly the outer northern suburbs and the rural areas. This has increased the Liberal majority to 9.3%.
The Labor candidate is Thomas French, about whom I can find no information.
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Other seats of interest
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