Electoral district of Kalgoorlie
| Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie | |||||||||||||||
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| Electors | 19,651 (2021) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 555,549 km2 (214,498.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Rural | ||||||||||||||
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Kalgoorlie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.
The district includes not only the town of
Long a Labor stronghold, the district was lost to the Liberal Party at the 2001 state election. The new Liberal member, Matt Birney, was re-elected at the 2005 state election but the district has changed hands at every election since then.
History
The district of Kalgoorlie was first created for the
However, it became far less safe for Labor during the 1990s amid demographic changes in the city of Kalgoorlie. Labor lost the seat in 2001 when
Birney was re-elected at the 2005 state election with a large swing even as the Labor government was convincingly reelected. He retired at the 2008 state election. Upon Birney's retirement, the seat was won by independent candidate and former Labor MLA John Bowler, the former member for Murchison-Eyre. Bowler held the seat for one term before retiring at the 2013 state election when the seat was won by Nationals MLC Wendy Duncan.
Duncan also only held the seat for only one term before retiring ahead of the 2017 state election which allowed Kyran O'Donnell to gain the seat for the Liberal Party. This marked the second time, after the 2001 state election, that the Liberal Party won the seat at an election as it lost government. O'Donnell held the seat for only one term before being swept out by Labor's Ali Kent in 2021 amid the massive Labor wave that swept through Western Australia.
Geography
For most of its history, the seat was a relatively compact seat based on its namesake, the town of
Members for Kalgoorlie
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Johnson | Labour
|
1901–1905 | |
| Norbert Keenan | Ministerial | 1905–1911 | |
| Albert Green | Labour | 1911–1913 | |
| George McLeod | Labor | 1914 | |
| Albert Green | Labor | 1914–1921 | |
| John Boyland | Ind. Nationalist | 1921–1922 | |
| James Cunningham | Labor | 1923–1936 | |
| Herbert Styants | Labor | 1936–1956 | |
| Tom Evans | Labor | 1956–1980 | |
| Ted Evans | Labor | 1980–1981 | |
| Ian Taylor | Labor | 1981–1996 | |
| Megan Anwyl | Labor | 1996–2001 | |
| Matt Birney | Liberal
|
2001–2008 | |
| John Bowler | Independent | 2008–2013 | |
| Wendy Duncan | National
|
2013–2017 | |
| Kyran O'Donnell | Liberal | 2017–2021 | |
| Ali Kent | Labor | 2021–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Ali Kent | 7,782 | 52.7 | +26.6 | |
| Liberal | Kyran O'Donnell | 3,695 | 25.0 | −3.0 | |
National
|
Rowena Olsen | 1,608 | 10.9 | −13.5 | |
| One Nation | Patrick Redreau | 494 | 3.3 | −8.8 | |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Jack Carmody | 465 | 3.2 | −0.9 | |
| Greens | Alex Wallace | 328 | 2.2 | −2.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Sam Rennie | 217 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
| No Mandatory Vaccination | Enrico Piazza | 140 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
WAxit
|
Rustu Buyukcakar | 31 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 14,760 | 96.2 | +0.2 | ||
| Informal votes | 591 | 3.8 | −0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 15,351 | 78.1 | −2.6 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Ali Kent | 9,152 | 62.0 | +18.2 | |
| Liberal | Kyran O'Donnell | 5,601 | 38.0 | −18.2 | |
| Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +18.2 | |||
References
- ^ "2021 State General Election: Kalgoorlie district profile". Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
- ^ 2021 State General Election – Kalgoorlie District Results, WAEC
External links
- ABC election profiles: 2005 2008
- WAEC district maps: current boundaries, previous distributions
