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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Hasluck, Western Australia

Named for: Rt Hon Sir Paul Hasluck (1905-93), federal MP 1949-69, Governor-General 1969-74, and his wife, Dame Alexandra Hasluck (1908-93), author

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Eastern Perth: Bassendean, Ellenbrook, Guildford, Midland, Morley

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Enrolment at 2019 election: 98,623
Enrolment at 2022 election: 117,530 (+19.3)

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2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 62.4
2023 Voice referendum: No 65.1

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Sitting member: Tania Lawrence (Labor): Elected 2022

2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 1.3%
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 0.6%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.9%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 2.1%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 5.4%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal 6.0%
2025 notional Labor majority over Liberal 9.3%

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Status: Fairly safe Labor

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Labor two-party vote 2001-22

2022 results

Statistics and history

Announced candidates:

Tania Lawrence Australian Labor Party

Division of Hasluck

Hasluck was created at the 2001 redistribution, in Perth's fast-growing outer eastern suburbs. Although it has the high proportion of dwellings being purchased typical of outer suburban seats, it has a lower rate of families with dependent children than is usual for such seats, and cannot be classed as a pure mortgage belt seat as a result. It has a low proportion of non English speaking households, and a very low proportion of people in professional and managerial occupations.

Ken Wyatt defeated Labor's Sharryn Jackson in 2010, increased his majority in 2013, survived a 3.9% swing to Labor in 2016, and improved his majority in 2019. He was originally a teacher, then became manager of Aboriginal Education in the WA Department of Education. He was later Director of Aboriginal Health in both NSW and WA. He was the first Indigenous person to win a seat in the House of Representatives. He was appointed an assistant minister in 2015 and Minister for Indigenous Australians and a member of Cabinet in May 2019. He was the first Indigenous Australian to be a federal minister. None of this was enough to save Wyatt from the swing to Labor in WA at the 2022 election.

Tania Lawrence, Labor MP for Hasluck since 2022, was a business owner and former senior policy adviser to the WA Premier before her election. Her position has been improved by the 2024 redistribution, which has removed all the Liberal-voting rural areas of the seat and extended it westwards to take in Labor-inclined Bassendean and Morley. Even so, the large swings to Labor in WA in 2022 were largely due to state issues, particularly arising from the COVID pandemic. This means that the Labor majority in Hasluck is probably over-stated.

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