Electoral district of Mandurah

Mandurah Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
State or territory:	Western Australia
Dates current:	1983–present
MP:	David Templeman
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Mandurah
Area:	70 km² (27 sq mi)
Demographic:	South West

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

The district is based on the costal satellite city of Mandurah to the south of Perth.

The seat has switched between the major parties on a couple of occasions, but has recently become stronger for the Labor Party.

Geography

The district is a compact coastal electorate lying just to the south of the Metropolitan Region Scheme and north of the Peel Inlet. It includes the communities of Coodanup, Greenfields, Lakelands, Madora Bay, Mandurah, Meadow Springs, Parklands, San Remo, Silver Sands which lie to the west of the Mandurah Estuary. The district also extends across the eastury, to include parts of Barragup and Furnissdale.

History

First contested the 1983 state election, Mandurah was won by Labor candidate John Read. Read lost the seat at the 1989 state election to Liberal candidate Roger Nicholls. Nicholls held the seat for three terms before his defeat at the 2001 state election to Labor candidate David Templeman, who holds the seat to this day.

Despite its proximity to Perth, Mandurah has long been regarded as a non-metropolitan district. Before the one vote one value reforms that took effect at the 2008 state election, this meant that Mandurah had roughly half the enrolment of neighbouring districts to the north. And whilst Mandurah now contains a similar number of enrolled voters to most others electorates, this tradition lives on with Mandurah district falling inside the non-metropolitan South West Legislative Council region.

The proposed 2011 redistribution had Mandurah being shifted into the South Metropolitan region due to the transfer of the Rockingham suburbs of Golden Bay and Singleton into the district with the more rural suburbs of Barragup and Furnissdale being placed in the district of Murray-Wellington but has since been reversed.

Members for Mandurah

Member		Party	Term
	John Read	Labor	1983–1989
	Roger Nicholls	Liberal	1989–2001
	David Templeman	Labor	2001–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Mandurah

Western Australian state election, 2008: Mandurah
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	David Templeman	9,188	52.9	+0.0
	Liberal	Les Atkins	5,922	34.1	-0.7
	Greens	Clare Nunan	1,067	6.1	+2.5
	Family First	Rhonda Hamersley	657	3.8	+1.2
	Christian Democrats	Michelle Shave	437	2.5	+1.2
	CEC	Keith Hallam	98	0.6	+0.0
Total formal votes			17,369	94.6	+0.1
Informal votes			995	5.4	-0.1
Turnout			18,364	87.0
Two-candidate preferred result
	Labor	David Templeman	10,494	60.5	+2.0
	Liberal	Les Atkins	6,864	39.5	-2.0
	Labor hold		Swing	+2.0

External links

• ABC Election Profiles: 2005 2008
• WAEC District Maps: 1996–2005 2005–2008 2008–