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Australian federal election, 2022
Division of Perth, Western Australia
Named for: City of Perth (after Perth, Scotland. Sir George Murray
(1772-1846), who was Colonial Secretary at the time Perth was
founded, was MP for Perthshire in the House of Commons.)
Central Perth: Bassendean, Maylands, Mt Hawthorn, Mt Lawley, Yokine
State seats: All of
Maylands,
Mount Lawley and
Perth, parts of
Balcatta,
Bassendean and
Morley
Local government areas: All of
Bassendean and
Vincent, parts of
Bayswater,
Perth and
Stirling
Borders with:
Cowan,
Curtin,
Hasluck and
Swan
Enrolment at 2019 election: 101,413
Enrolment at 2022 election: 122,719 (+21.0)
1999 republic referendum: No 52.6
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 71.5
Sitting member: Patrick Gorman (Labor):
Elected 2018 by-election, 2019
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%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.9%
2019 notional Labor majority over Liberal: 3.2%
Liberal two-party vote 1983-2019
Status: Marginal Labor
Best Labor booths, two-party vote: Highgate (69.1), Northbridge (68.0), Bayswater (64.7), Eden Hill (64.6),
North Perth Central (64.1)
Best Liberal booths, two-party vote: Dianella (60.2), Coolbinya (59.2), Mount Lawley West (58.3),
Yokine North (56.4), Yokine West (56.1)
2019 results
Statistics and history
Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Cameron Bailey
Pauline Hanson's One Nation |
2. Dean Powell
Australian Christians |
3. Sean Connor
Great Australian Party |
4. Dave Vos
Western Australian Party |
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5. Sarah Szmekura-Moor
Animal Justice Party |
6. Patrick Gorman
Australian Labor Party |
7. Evan Nickols
Liberal Democrats |
8. Sonya Eberhart
United Australia Party |
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9. Caroline Perks
Australian Greens |
10. David Dwyer
Liberal Party |
11. Aiden Gyuru
Australian Federation Party |
Candidate websites:
Sean Connor
David Dwyer
Sonya Eberhart
Patrick Gorman
Aiden Gyuru
Evan Nickols
Caroline Perks
Dean Powell
Sarah Szmekura-Moor
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 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 for family reasons. At the subsequent by-election, which the Liberals did not contest,
Labor easily defeated the Greens. Perth 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 2021 redistribution has made minor changes to the seat without affecting the Labor majority. 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. The Liberal candidate is David Dwyer, an accountant. The Greens candidate is
Caroline Perks, Senior Sustainability Officer at the City of Perth.
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%)
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