Division of Swan
Swan Division | |
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Created | 1901 |
MP | Zaneta Mascarenhas |
Party | Labor |
Namesake | Swan River |
Electors | 121,335 (2022) |
Area | 134 km2 (51.7 sq mi) |
Demographic | Inner metropolitan |
The Division of Swan is an
Swan is a
The seat includes a mix of
The current MP is Zaneta Mascarenhas, a member of the Australian Labor Party. She was elected in the 2022 election.
History
The division is named after the
The division was one of the
From 2004 to 2007 it was the third most marginal electorate in Australia, after Hindmarsh and Kingston, with the ALP incumbent Kim Wilkie winning 50.08 percent of the two-party-preferred vote in 2004.
At the 2007 election, Liberal candidate Steve Irons won the seat with a swing of 0.19 percent.[2] Irons was the only Coalition challenger to unseat a Labor incumbent at the 2007 election. However, the election came at a very bad time for the state Labor government, which was only polling at 49 percent support at the time the writs were dropped. Irons was re-elected with a slightly increased majority in 2010, making it a fairly safe Liberal seat. Following the 2016 election Labor candidate Tammy Solonec managed to return Swan to marginal status.
Steve Irons retained the seat in the 2019 election.[3] Hannah Beazley contested the seat for Labor but ultimately conceded defeat.[3] After Steve Iron's retirement at the 2022 Australian federal election, the seat was contested by Kristy McSweeney from the Liberal Party. She was defeated by Zaneta Mascarenhas from the Labor Party.[4]
Geography
Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.[5]
In August 2021, the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) announced that Swan would lose the suburb of Wilson to the seat of Tangney and gain the suburbs of Maida Vale and Wattle Grove and the remainder of Forrestfield and High Wycombe from the seat of Hasluck. These boundary changes took place as of the 2022 election.[6]
Swan is bordered by the Swan River in the north and west, the Canning River and the City of Canning in the south, and Roe Highway, Great Eastern Highway and Perth Airport in the east. Suburbs include:[7]
City of Belmont
City of Canning
City of Kalamunda
City of South Perth
City of Swan
- South Guildford (part)
Town of Victoria Park
Members
Image | Member | Party | Term | Notes | |
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Sir John Forrest (1847–1918) |
Protectionist | 29 March 1901 – 26 May 1909 |
Previously held the . Died in office | ||
Liberal | 26 May 1909 – 17 February 1917 | ||||
Nationalist
|
17 February 1917 – 2 September 1918 | ||||
Edwin Corboy (1896–1950) |
Labor | 26 October 1918 – 13 December 1919 |
Lost seat. Later elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Yilgarn in 1921 | ||
John Prowse (1871–1944) |
Farmers and Settlers' Association | 13 December 1919 – 24 February 1920 |
Transferred to the Division of Forrest | ||
Country
|
24 February 1920 – 16 December 1922 | ||||
Henry Gregory (1860–1940) |
Country
|
16 December 1922 – 15 November 1940 |
Previously held the Division of Dampier. Died in office | ||
Thomas Marwick (1895–1960) |
Country
|
21 December 1940 – 21 August 1943 |
Previously a member of the Senate. Lost seat | ||
Don Mountjoy (1906–1988) |
Labor | 21 August 1943 – 28 September 1946 |
Lost seat | ||
Len Hamilton (1899–1987) |
Country
|
28 September 1946 – 10 December 1949 |
Transferred to the Division of Canning | ||
Bill Grayden (1920–) |
Liberal | 10 December 1949 – 29 May 1954 |
Previously held the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Middle Swan. Lost seat. Later elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of South Perth in 1956. Currently the oldest living former member of the House of Representatives | ||
Harry Webb (1908–2000) |
Labor | 29 May 1954 – 10 December 1955 |
Transferred to the Division of Stirling | ||
Richard Cleaver (1917–2006) |
Liberal | 10 December 1955 – 25 October 1969 |
Lost seat | ||
Adrian Bennett (1933–2006) |
Labor | 25 October 1969 – 13 December 1975 |
Lost seat | ||
John Martyr (1932–2021) |
Liberal | 13 December 1975 – 18 October 1980 |
Lost seat. Later appointed to the Senate in 1981 | ||
Kim Beazley (1948–) |
Labor | 18 October 1980 – 2 March 1996 |
Served as minister under | ||
Don Randall (1953–2015) |
Liberal | 2 March 1996 – 3 October 1998 |
Lost seat. Later elected to the Division of Canning in 2001 | ||
Kim Wilkie (1959–) |
Labor | 3 October 1998 – 24 November 2007 |
Lost seat | ||
Steve Irons (1958–) |
Liberal | 24 November 2007 – 11 April 2022 |
Retired | ||
Zaneta Mascarenhas (1980–) |
Labor | 21 May 2022 – present |
Incumbent |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Zaneta Mascarenhas | 39,082 | 39.07 | +6.17 | |
Liberal | Kristy McSweeney | 32,096 | 32.08 | −12.65 | |
Greens | Clint Uink | 14,861 | 14.86 | +2.86 | |
United Australia | Paul Hilton | 2,637 | 2.64 | +0.81 | |
One Nation | Peter Hallifax | 2,544 | 2.54 | −0.33 | |
Animal Justice | Timothy Green | 2,214 | 2.21 | +0.89 | |
Western Australia | Rod Bradley | 2,059 | 2.06 | +0.70 | |
Christians | Dena Gower | 1,930 | 1.93 | +0.20 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Thompson | 1,821 | 1.82 | +1.82 | |
Australian Federation | Carl Pallier | 792 | 0.79 | +0.79 | |
Total formal votes | 100,036 | 94.75 | +0.59 | ||
Informal votes | 5,545 | 5.25 | −0.59 | ||
Turnout | 105,581 | 87.12 | −1.73 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Zaneta Mascarenhas | 58,796 | 58.77 | +11.99 | |
Liberal | Kristy McSweeney | 41,240 | 41.23 | −11.99 | |
Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +11.99 |
References
- ^ a b c d "Swan (Key Seat) - Federal Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ 2007 Federal Election results (Declared 12/12/07)
- ^ a b "Federal election 2019 Swan result". Community News Group. 19 May 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "Swan (Key Seat) - Federal Election 2022". ABC News. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ^ Muller, Damon (14 November 2017). "The process of federal redistributions: a quick guide". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Redistributions/2021/wa/files/redistribution-of-western-australia-into-electoral-divisions-august-2021.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Profile of the electoral division of Swan (WA)". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
- ^ Swan, WA, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.