|
|
|
|
| Adam Carr's Election Archive
|
Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Moore, Western Australia
Named for: Moore River (from George Moore (1798-1886), first WA Advocate-General). The river is no longer in the Divison.
Northern Perth: Carine, Hillarys, Joondalup, Karrinyup, Kingsley
Enrolment at 2019 election: 101,524
Enrolment at 2022 election: 119,305 (+17.6)
1999 republic referendum: No 57.4
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 68.0
2023 Voice referendum: No 62.3
 |
Sitting member: Ian Goodenough (Liberal): Elected 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022
|
2007 Liberal majority over Labor: 9.2%
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.2%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.9%
2016 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.0%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.7%
2022 Liberal majority over Labor: 0.7%
2025 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 0.9%
Status: Very marginal Liberal
Liberal two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
 |
 |
 |
Vince Connelly
Liberal Party |
Tom French
Australian Labor Party |
Ian Goodenough
Independent |
Division of Moore
Moore was created in 1949, as a rural seat occupying the northern half of the Wheat Belt. On these boundaries it was a
safe non-Labor seat, changing hands between the Liberal and Country parties. In 1980 it was changed into a part-rural,
part-suburban seat on the northern fringes of Perth, and became politically marginal. In 1990 it was changed again
into a suburban seat, along the northern beachside suburbs of Perth. It is now a classic mortgage belt seat, with
high levels of families with dependent children and wellings being purchased, though it is more affluent than most
seats of this type. It also has the highest proportion of people born in the UK of any seat: one-fifth of the voters
are British-born. All these factors appeared to make Moore a fairly safe Liberal seat, although Labor came close to
winning it in 2022.
Dr Malcolm Washer won Moore for the Liberals in 1998, defeating
Paul Filing, the former Liberal member who had lost
his Liberal preselection in 1996 but retained the seat as an independent. Washer spent 15 years on the backbench,
but became a respected figure and a dissident on some issues. He retired in 2013.
Ian Goodenough, Liberal MP for Moore since 2013, is an accountant
and was a company director before his election. He was also a member of Wanneroo City Council. He was born in Singapore of Chinese
and English ancestry. Local Liberals tried to dump him in 2018 but he was saved by prime ministerial intervention. In 2024 he was
again disendorsed, but evidently intends recontesting the seat as an independent. The new Liberal candidate is
Vince Connelly, who was Liberal MP for the abolished seat of Stirling
2019-22. The Labor candidate is again Tom French, an electrician.
The 2024 redistribution has left Moore with a Liberal majority of 0.9%, making it one of the most marginal seats in the country. But the large swings to Labor in the Western Australian seats in 2022 were largely due to state issues, particularly arising from the COVID pandemic. This means that the Labor vote in Moore is considerably over-stated.
Back to main page
| |