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Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Perth, Western Australia
Central Perth: Bassendean, Maylands, Morley, Mt Lawley
State seats: All of
Bayswater and
Perth, parts of
Bassendean,
Morley and
Mount Lawley
Local government areas: All of Bassendean, Bayswater, Perth and Vincent, parts of Swan
Enrolment at close of rolls: 101,413
1999 republic referendum: No 52.6
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 71.5
Sitting member: Patrick Gorman (Labor):
Elected 2018 by-election
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 8.9%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.9%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.4%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 3.3%
2018 by-election Labor majority over Greens: 13.1%
Status: Very marginal Labor
Best Liberal booths, two-party vote: Coolbinia (62.6), East Perth (61.0), West Perth Central (60.0),
Mount Lawley West (56.8), Mount Hawthorn East (54.8)
Best Labor booths, two-party vote: Eden Hill (65.1), Northbridge (63.6), Bayswater (62.2), Highgate (62.0), Embleton (61.0)
2016 results
2018 by-election results
Statistics and history
Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Jane Boxall
Western Australian Party |
2. Patrick Gorman
Australian Labor Party |
3. Jim Grayden
Liberal Party |
4. Gary Davies
Science Party |
5. Chas Hopkins
United Australia Party |
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6. Caroline Perks
Australian Greens |
7. Mel Lownds
Pauline Hanson's One Nation |
8. Curtis Greening
Voteflux |
Candidate websites:
Patrick Gorman
Jim Grayden
Caroline Perks
Division of Perth
Perth has existed since Federation, orginally covering the whole city except for Fremantle. Today it has been cut back to a
block of suburbs running north-east from the city centre, and is a fairly typical inner-city seat, with a high proportion of
people in professional and management occupations and people in non English speaking households, and a low level of families with
dependent children. Like most seats of this type, it is fairly safe for Labor. The Liberals have not won Perth since 1980.
Every member for Perth before 1983 was eventually defeated, but Dr Ric Charlesworth, who won the seat in 1983 for Labor,
held it for ten years before retiring. Charlesworth was succeeded in 1993 by Stephen Smith, a former WA ALP State Secretary
and advisor to Prime Minister Keating. Smith was Foreign Minister and Defence Minister in the Rudd-Gillard Government, and
retired in 2013.
Alannah MacTiernan, a former (and current) WA state minister, stepped into the breach when Smith announced his retirement
shortly before the 2013 election. She retired after one term and returned to state politics. She was succeeded by Tim
Hammond, a barrister who was elected federal vice-president of the party in 2015. Hammond was comfortably elected in 2016, but in
early 2018 he decided to resign because he disliked the effect on his family of his long absences in Canberra - a chronic
problem for WA MPs. At the subsequent by-election, which the Liberals did not contest, Labor easily defeated the Greens.
Perth has thus had four Labor MPs in five years.
Patrick Gorman, Labor MP for Perth since the 2018 by-election, was a senior staffer with Kevin Rudd as Prime
Minister and Foreign Minister. He was WA State Secretary of the ALP 2015-18. The Liberal candidate in 2019 will be
Jim Grayden, a businessman who is the son of Bill Grayden, a former federal and state Liberal MP.
The Greens candidate is Caroline Perks, Senior Sustainability Officer at the City of Perth. The Science Party candidate,
Gary Davies, is a software engineer. Clive Palmer's candidate, Chas Hopkins, was Lord Mayor of Perth 1988-91.
Demographics:
Median weekly household income: $1,700 (Australia $1,438)
People over 65: 13.8% (Australia 15.8%)
Australian born: 53.7% (Australia 66.7%)
Ancestry: Italian 6.3%
Non-English-speaking households: 27.8% (Australia 22.2%)
Catholics 24.9% (Australia 22.6%)
No religion 33.8% (Australia 29.6%)
University graduates: 32.1% (Australia 22.0%)
Professional and managerial employment: 43.5% (Australia 35.2%)
Employed in manufacturing and construction: 18.1% (Australia 22.9%)
Paying a mortgage: 32.6% (Australia 34.5%)
Renting: 37.8% (Australia 30.9%)
Traditional families: 24.9% (Australia 32.8%)
Members:
Hon James Fowler (Lab, ALP, Lib, Nat) 1901-22
Edward Mann (Nat, Ind) 1922-29
Hon Walter Nairn (Nat, UAP) 1929-43
Thomas Burke (ALP) 1943-55
Hon Fred Chaney (Lib) 1955-69
Hon Joseph Berinson (ALP) 1969-75
Ross McLean (Lib) 1975-83
Dr Richard Charlesworth (ALP) 1983-93
Hon Stephen Smith (ALP) 1993-2013
Hon Alannah MacTiernan (ALP) 2013-16
Tim Hammond (ALP) 2016-18
Patrick Gorman (ALP) 2018b-
Boundaries following 2016 redistribution:
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