The Division of Canning is an Australian Electoral Division in

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History

The division was created in 1949 and is named for

Alfred Canning Alfred Wernam Canning (21 February 1860 – 22 May 1936) was a Western Australian government surveyor. Born at Campbellfield north of Melbourne, he started work in New South Wales as a cadet surveyor and in 1893 joined the Western Austral ...

, the Western Australian government surveyor who surveyed the Canning Stock Route. It was originally a country seat that traded hands between the two main centre-right parties, the

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and

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parties. Since 1980 it has been located in the southern suburbs of the two largest cities in Western Australia,

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and

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. For most of its last three decades, it has been a highly marginal seat due to the balanced proportion of the urban north and the rural south, changing hands between the

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and the Liberal Party. Canning had a Liberal margin of 4.3 percent leading into the 2010 election, and was targeted by Labor, who stood high-profile candidate and former state Labor MP

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. The Liberals retained the seat; however, Canning was the only

n seat to see a

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swing toward the

. A

2015 Canning by-election The 2015 Canning by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives on Saturday 19 September from 8 am to 6 pm Western Standard Time, WST. The by-election in the seat of Division of Canning, Canning was triggered by the de ...

, triggered on 21 July following the death of Liberal Don Randall, was held on 19 September. Though the Turnbull Government was just four days old, their candidate

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retained the seat for the Liberals, despite having to rely on preferences after a substantial, though dampened, primary (−4.15%) and

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(−6.55%) swing away from the Liberals − solidly less than the double-digit swings polls had predicted under an Abbott Government − however, some double-digit swings did eventuate among the northern suburban booths. The Canning Liberal margin was reduced from safe to marginal status. Political analysts agreed the by-election was a "good outcome for both major parties". In 2016, the more urbanised areas of the

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west of the

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and

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, together with the suburbs of Mount Nasura and

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, were redistributed to the new

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Geography

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the

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. 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. The Division of Canning stretches from

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and

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in the north to Wagerup in the south, and is largely based around the Peel region of

to the south of

. As at the 2016 election, it includes the entire Peel region, comprising the

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and the Shires of Serpentine-Jarrahdale (including

and Mundijong),

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(including Pinjarra, Yunderup and Dwellingup), Waroona (including Waroona and Preston Beach) and Boddington. It also includes suburbs of a more semi-rural nature in the

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from the Cities of Armadale, Gosnells, and Kalamunda. In August 2021, the

(AEC) announced that the Shire of Boddington would be transferred from Canning to the seat of O'Connor, while the Gosnells suburbs of Kenwick, Maddington,

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and part of the Gosnells suburb of

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would be transferred to

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. These boundary changes will take place as of the next Australian federal election.https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Redistributions/2021/wa/files/redistribution-of-western-australia-into-electoral-divisions-august-2021.pdf

Members

Election results

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