South Metropolitan Region

The electoral region of South Metropolitan is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the southern suburbs of Perth. It was created by the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was increased to six members.

Geography

The Region is made up of several complete Legislative Assembly districts, which change at each distribution.

Redistribution	Period	Electoral districts	Electors	% of State	Area
29 April 1988	22 May 1989 – 22 May 1997	Applecross, Cockburn, Fremantle, Jandakot, Melville, Peel, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Victoria Park (10)	195,574	21.51%	590 km2 (230 sq mi)
28 November 1994	22 May 1997 – 22 May 2005	Alfred Cove, Cockburn, Fremantle, Murdoch, Peel, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Victoria Park, Electoral district of Willagee (10)	221,337	21.61%	590 km2 (230 sq mi)
4 August 2003	22 May 2005 – 22 May 2009	Alfred Cove, Cockburn, Fremantle, Murdoch, Peel, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Victoria Park, Electoral district of Willagee (10)	263,620	21.69%	577 km2 (223 sq mi)
29 October 2007	22 May 2009 – 22 May 2017	Alfred Cove, Bateman, Cannington, Cockburn, Fremantle, Jandakot, Kwinana, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Southern River, Victoria Park, Warnbro, Willagee (14)	311,583	26.09%	754 km2 (291 sq mi)
27 November 2015	22 May 2017 – 22 May 2021	Baldivis, Bateman, Bicton, Cannington, Cockburn, Fremantle, Jandakot, Kwinana, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Southern River, Victoria Park, Warnbro, Willagee (15)	409,325	25.69%	753 km2 (291 sq mi)

Representation

Distribution of seats

As 5-member seat:

Election	Seats won
1989–1993
1993–1997
1997–2001
2001–2005
2005–2009

As 6-member seat:

Election	Seats won
2009–2013
2013–2017
2017–2021

Legend:

	Labor
	Liberal
	Greens WA
	Liberal Democrats

Members

Since its creation, the electorate has had 16 members. Four of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—Clive Griffiths and Phillip Pendal (both South Central Metropolitan), John Halden (North Metropolitan) and Garry Kelly (South Metropolitan).

		Five member seat					Six member seat
Member	Party	1989–93	1993–97	1997–01	2001–05	2005–09	2009–13[a]	2013-17[b]
Garry Kelly	Labor
John Halden[2]	Labor			–2000
Cheryl Davenport	Labor
Graham Giffard[2]	Labor			2000–
Kate Doust	Labor
Sue Ellery	Labor
Sheila Mills	Labor
Phillip Pendal[1]	Liberal	–1993
Diane Airey[1]	Liberal	1993–
Clive Griffiths	Liberal
Barbara Scott	Liberal
Simon O'Brien	Liberal
Phil Edman	Liberal
Nick Goiran	Liberal
Jim Scott[3]	Greens WA				–2005
Lynn MacLaren[3]	Greens WA				2005

Notes

^a Members serving for the 2009–2013 term were elected in 2008 but do not take their seats in Parliament until 22 May 2009.

^b next term of office

¹ Liberal MLC Phillip Pendal resigned on 14 January 1993 to contest the seat of South Perth at the 1993 election. On 2 February 1993, Diane Airey was appointed to fill the vacancy, but was not sworn in.

² Labor MLC John Halden resigned on 20 January 2000 in order to take up the position of party state president. Graham Giffard was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 7 February. Giffard transferred to a North Metropolitan seat at the 2001 election.

³ Greens MLC Jim Scott resigned on 20 January 2005 to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Fremantle at the February 2005 election. He was replaced by Lynn MacLaren for the last weeks of his term, and MacLaren contested the South Metropolitan seat in what had been Scott's place.