Electoral district of Fremantle

Coordinates: 32°04′S 115°46′E / 32.07°S 115.76°E / -32.07; 115.76
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This article is about the Western Australian state electorate. For the Australian federal electorate, see Division of Fremantle. For the Legislative Council constituency (1870–1890), see Electoral district of Fremantle (Legislative Council).

Fremantle
Labor
NamesakeFremantle
Electors31,347 (2021)
Area46 km2 (17.8 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates32°04′S 115°46′E / 32.07°S 115.76°E / -32.07; 115.76

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

The district is located in the inner south-west of Perth, centring on the port of Fremantle.

Fremantle is a historically safe

Labor seat, though the Greens WA have polled well in recent times. Labor held the seat from 1924 until a 2009 by-election which was lost to Greens candidate Adele Carles. Carles quit the party in the following year, sitting as an independent for the remainder of her term. The seat returned to Labor at the 2013 election
.

Geography

Fremantle is a north–south elongated electorate. It is bounded to the north by the

North Coogee, South Fremantle and White Gum Valley, as well as parts of the suburbs of Bicton, Hamilton Hill, Palmyra and Spearwood. The district also includes Rottnest Island
.

History

Created for the

Labor Party
in the early 20th century, and has been held by the Labor Party at all times between 1924 and 2021, except from 2009 to 2013.

Fremantle's longest-serving member was

Carpenter governments from 2001 to 2008. He was replaced in the 2009 Fremantle state by-election by Greens candidate Adele Carles, who won the seat having outpolled Labor on the primary vote, and gaining sufficient preference flow to fill McGinty's vacancy. In doing so, Carles set a number of firsts for the Greens in Australia
.

The seat reverted to form in 2013 election, with Simone McGurk reclaiming the seat for Labor on Green preferences. A redistribution ahead of the 2017 election ballooned McGurk's margin from a fairly safe 57.9 percent to a comfortably safe 65.4 percent. McGurk's margin blew out in Labor's 2017 landslide, when she took 73.1 percent of the two-party vote, making Fremantle Labor's fourth-safest seat.

Members for Fremantle

Member Party Term
  William Marmion Ministerialist 1890–1896
  John Higham Ministerialist 1896–1904
  Ted Needham
Labor
 1904–1905
  James Price Ministerialist 1905–1910
  William Murphy Ministerialist 1910–1911
  William Carpenter Labor 1911–1917
  National Labor 1917
  Walter Jones Labor 1917–1921
  Frank Gibson Nationalist 1921–1924
  Joseph Sleeman Labor 1924–1959
  Harry Fletcher Labor 1959–1977
  John Troy Labor 1977–1980
  David Parker Labor 1980–1990
  Jim McGinty Labor 1990–2009
  Adele Carles Greens 2009–2010
  Independent 2010–2013
  Simone McGurk Labor 2013–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Fremantle
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2021 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Fremantle.[edit]
2021 Western Australian state election: Fremantle[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Simone McGurk 14,646 57.3 +6.0
Greens Liberty Cramer 4,769 18.6 +0.0
Liberal Miquela Riley 3,837 15.0 −5.5
Socialist Alliance Sam Wainwright 726 2.8 +0.8
No Mandatory Vaccination W. Schulze 577 2.3 +2.3
Liberal Democrats Carl Schelling 492 1.9 +1.9
Independent Rod Grljusich 318 1.2 +1.2
Western Australia Janetia Knapp 216 0.8 +0.2
Total formal votes 25,581 96.6 +1.2
Informal votes 900 3.4 −1.2
Turnout 26,481 84.5 +1.5
Notional two-party-preferred count
Labor Simone McGurk 19,957 78.1 +5.1
Liberal Miquela Riley 5,596 21.9 −5.1
Two-candidate-preferred
result
Labor Simone McGurk 16,800 65.7 −7.3
Greens Liberty Cramer 8,753 34.3 +34.3
Labor hold  

References

  1. ^ 2021 State General Election – Fremantle District Results, WAEC

External links

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