Electoral district of Wanneroo

Wanneroo is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

Wanneroo
Western AustraliaLegislative Assembly
Location of Wanneroo (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
StateWestern Australia
Dates current1989–present
MPSabine Winton
PartyLabor
NamesakeWanneroo
Electors31,301 (2021)
Area454 km2 (175.3 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Electorates around Wanneroo:
Butler Moore Moore
Butler
Burns Beach
Joondalup
Wanneroo Moore
Swan Hills
Joondalup
Kingsley
Landsdale West Swan

The district is located in the northern suburbs of Perth.

Wanneroo is a traditionally a marginal seat; it has been held by the government of the day on every occasion since its creation in 1989. However, at the 2021 state election, which resulted in a second consecutive landslide for Mark McGowan, the marginal trend was broken and Wanneroo became a very safe seat for the Labor Party.

Geography

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Wanneroo is based in the outer northern suburbs of Perth. It includes the suburbs of Ashby, Banksia Grove, Carramar, Gnangara, Hocking, Jandabup, Madeley, Mariginiup, Pearsall, Sinagra, Tapping, Wangara and Wanneroo.

History

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Wanneroo was first created for the 1989 state election. It replaced the abolished seat of Joondalup, and was won by Labor MP Jackie Watkins, then the member for Joondalup. Watkins lost the seat one term later when Labor lost government at the 1993 state election. The seat remained in Liberal Party hands for two terms until the party lost government at the 2001 state election. This pattern asserted itself again at the 2008 state election when Labor's two term hold on the seat ended with the defeat of the Labor government.

Members for Wanneroo

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Member Party Term
  Jackie Watkins Labor 1989–1993
  Wayde Smith Liberal 1993–1996
  Iain MacLean Liberal 1996–2001
  Dianne Guise Labor 2001–2008
  Paul Miles Liberal 2008–2017
  Sabine Winton Labor 2017–present

Election results

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2021 Western Australian state election: Wanneroo[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Sabine Winton 18,366 71.8 +24.4
Liberal Paul Miles 4,686 18.3 −11.3
Greens Matthew Ward 1,150 4.5 −3.2
No Mandatory Vaccination J. Bullock 637 2.5 +2.5
Western Australia Lilian Siviour 404 1.6 +0.5
WAxit Sandy Culum-Buzak 335 1.3 +0.8
Total formal votes 25,578 95.7 +0.2
Informal votes 1,152 4.3 −0.2
Turnout 26,730 85.4 +5.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Sabine Winton 20,059 78.4 +19.8
Liberal Paul Miles 5,516 21.6 −19.8
Labor hold Swing +19.8

References

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