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Australian federal election, 2022
Division of Fremantle, Western Australia
Named for: City of Fremantle (after Captain Charles Fremantle (1800-
69), captain of the Challenger, which brought the first settlers to
Western Australia)
Western Perth: Cockburn, Coolbellup, Fremantle, Hammond Park, Palmyra
State seats: All of
Fremantle, parts of
Bicton,
Cottesloe and
Willagee
Local government areas: All of
East Fremantle and
Fremantle, parts of
Cockburn and
Melville
Borders with:
Brand,
Burt,
Curtin and
Tangney
Enrolment at 2019 election: 105,383
Enrolment at 2022 election: 116,905 (+10.9)
1999 republic referendum: No 51.7
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 70.1
Sitting member: Josh Wilson (Labor):
Elected 2016. Resigned 2018. Elected 2018 by-election, 2019
2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 9.1%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.7%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.8%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.5%
2018 by-election Labor majority over Liberal Democrats: 23.3%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 6.9%
2019 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 6.9%
Liberal two-party vote 1983-2019
Status: Marginal Labor
Best Labor booths, two-party vote: Hilton (78.9), White Gum Valley (74.5), Fremantle South (72.7),
Hamilton Hill East (70.8), Beaconsfield (69.1)
Best Liberal booths, two-party vote: East Fremantle North (58.4), Coogee (54.3), Atwell South (51.0),
Aubin Grove (49.9), Cockburn Central PPVC (49.9)
2019 results
Statistics and history
Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Ben Tilbury
Great Australian Party |
2. Sam Wainwright
Socialist Alliance |
3. Cathy Gavranich
Australian Federation Party |
4. Josh Wilson
Australian Labor Party |
5. Stella Jinman
United Australia Party |
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6. Bill Koul
Liberal Party |
7. Felicity Townsend
Australian Greens |
8. Yan Loh
Liberal Democrats |
9. Janetia Knapp
Western Australia Party |
10. William Edgar
Pauline Hanson's One Nation |
Candidate websites:
Cathy Gavranich
Stella Jinman
Janetia Knapp
Bill Koul
Yan Loh
Ben Tilbury
Felicity Townsend
Sam Wainwright
Josh Wilson
Division of Fremantle
Fremantle has existed since Federation, and has always been based on the port city of Fremantle and surrounding
suburbs. Before 1949 it extended northwards into some of the wealthy areas which are now in the seat of Curtin,
and this made the seat politically marginal. After 1949, however, it was among the safest Labor seats in Australia,
although Labor majorities have slowly fallen as blue-collar employment has declined and the Fremantle area has become
colonised by middle-class people. Thus Fremantle now has a fairly high level of median family income for a safe
Labor seat, and a lower proportion of people born in non English speaking countries than Perth, Stirling or
Swan.
Fremantle, a traditional Labor "leadership seat," has been held by five Labor ministers in a row: Prime Minister
John Curtin,
Kim Beazley senior,
John Dawkins,
Dr Carmen Lawrence, and
Melissa Parke. Lawrence, a former WA
Premier, won a by-election in 1994. But her career in Canberra was haunted by events from her time as Premier, and
she retired in 2007. Parke was (briefly) a minister in the Rudd-Gillard Government. A strong leftist, she was
clearly frustrated with Labor policy under
Bill Shorten and retired in 2016.
Josh Wilson, Labor MP for Fremantle since 2016, was a Fremantle City Councillor and staffer to Parke before his
election. In May 2018, after the High Court's ruling in the case of Senator
Katy Gallagher, it became apparent that
he had not successfully renounced the British citizenship for which he was potentially eligible through his
grandmother. He therefore resigned and succcessfully contested a by-election in July, which the Liberal Party did
not contest.
The 2021 redistribution has left Fremantle unchanged. The Greens candidate is Felicity Townsend, whose occupation is not stated.
The state seats in this area produced huge swings to Labor at the 2021 state election. This was
entirely due to state issues and should not be taken as an indicator that similar results
can be expected in WA at a federal election.
Demographics:
Median weekly household income: $1,713 (Australia $1,438)
People over 65: 13.4% (Australia 15.8%)
Australian born: 60.4% (Australia 66.7%)
Ancestry: Italian 6.5%
Non-English-speaking households: 22.6% (Australia 22.2%)
Catholics 27.8% (Australia 22.6%)
No religion 34.8% (Australia 29.6%)
University graduates: 24.3% (Australia 22.0%)
Professional and managerial employment: 36.3% (Australia 35.2%)
Employed in manufacturing and construction: 25.6% (Australia 22.9%)
Paying a mortgage: 42.1% (Australia 34.5%)
Renting: 27.0% (Australia 30.9%)
Traditional families: 33.8% (Australia 32.8%)
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