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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Tangney, Western Australia
Southern Perth: Applecross, Leeming, Melville, Riverton
Sitting member: Dr Dennis Jensen (formerly Liberal), elected 2004
Enrolment at close of rolls: 94,111
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 14.7%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 13.0%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Dr Dennis Jensen
Independent |
2. John Wieske
Australian Christians |
3. Thor Kerr
Australian Greens |
4. Marion Boswell
Australian Labor Party |
5. Ben Morton
Liberal Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Tangney was created in 1974, in Perth's fast-growing south-eastern suburbs. On its orginal boundaries it was politically marginal, and was won by Labor in 1974 and again in 1983, but successive redistributions have cut the seat back to a block of wealthy riverside suburbs and made it much safer for the Liberals. It has the high median family income and the high proportion of people in professional occupations typical of such electorates. It also has the high level of people from the UK seen in all the Perth seats. Daryl Williams won Tangney for the Liberals in 1993, and was Attorney-General in the first Howard government. He was succeeded in 2004 by Dr Dennis Jensen.
Dr Dennis Jensen, Liberal MP for Tangney since 2004, is a South African-born scientist. He has proved to be an eccentric and outspoken member. He was not promoted in Canberra and not popular with his local branches. He lost his Liberal endorsement in 2007 and again in 2010, but was saved both times by the Liberal Party's State Executive. He was again disendorsed in 2016 but this time there was no intervention.
The new Liberal candidate in Tangney is Ben Morton, a former Liberal state director. When the election was called, Jensen announced he would
contest the seat as an independent. The 2016 redistribution has removed strongly Liberal Canning Vale, slightly cutting the Liberal majority, but this is stil a safe Liberal seat. The Labor candidate is Marion Boswell, a high-school teacher at Southern River.
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Prospective pendulum, showing all candidates
State and territory maps, showing new boundaries
The thirty seats that will decide the election
Other seats of interest
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