The Division of Swan is an
Australian electoral division located in
Western Australia
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.
Swan is a
marginal
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electorate that has swung between both major
political parties
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in the past two decades. It extends across the
Swan River from central
Perth
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, and covers most of the area between the Swan and
Canning River
The Canning River (Djarlgarra in Nyungar) is a major tributary of the Swan River in the South West Land Division of Western Australia. It is home to much wildlife including dolphins, pelicans, swans and many other bird species.
Source a ...
s.
Swan includes the suburbs of
South Perth,
Como
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,
Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to:
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* Victoria Park Nature Reserve, a protected area in Northern Rivers region, New South Wales
* Victoria Park, Adelaide, a park and racecourse
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,
Rivervale Rivervale may refer to:
In Australia
* Rivervale, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
In Singapore
* Rivervale, Singapore, a precinct of the district of Sengkang located in north-eastern Singapore
In the United States
* Rivervale, Arkansas, a s ...
,
Belmont,
High Wycombe
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,
Maida Vale
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,
Forrestfield and
Wattle Grove.
Swan includes a mix of
incomes
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and
housing types
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, from low-price flats to
affluent
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suburbs with Swan River views.
The electorate includes the campus of
Curtin University
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, the
Welshpool
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and
Kewdale industrial areas, and
Perth Airport
Perth Airport is an international, domestic and general aviation airport serving Perth, the capital city of Western Australia.
It is the fourth busiest airport in Australia measured by passenger movements and falls within the boundaries of ...
.
Swan covers 151 sq. kilometers.
The current
MP is
Zaneta Mascarenhas, a member of the
Australian Labor Party
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. She was elected in the
2022 election.
History
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The division is named after the
Swan River. For several decades, it has been a marginal seat, extending along the Swan and
Canning River
The Canning River (Djarlgarra in Nyungar) is a major tributary of the Swan River in the South West Land Division of Western Australia. It is home to much wildlife including dolphins, pelicans, swans and many other bird species.
Source a ...
s from the affluent suburbs in the
City of South Perth
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to the west, which typically vote for the
Liberal Party
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, to the
City of Belmont
The City of Belmont is a local government area in the inner eastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about east of Perth's central business district on the south bank of the Swan River. The City covers an are ...
to the east and parts of the
City of Canning
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to the south-east, which are more working-class in orientation and typically vote for the
Labor Party. A redistribution ahead of the
2010 election added the strongly Labor-voting suburb of
Langford, which was previously within
Tangney, which made it a notionally Labor seat. Langford was redistributed to
Burt
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in 2016.
The division was one of the
original 65 divisions contested at the
first federal election. Historically, the electorate was a country seat extending north to
Dongara, east to
Merredin and south to the coast. It contracted to an area east of the
Darling Range
The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. The escarpment extends generally north of Bindoon, to t ...
and became a safe
Country Party seat. Prior to the
1949 election, its old area became the new seat of
Moore, while Swan moved into approximately its present position, although initially extending as far north-east as
Midland.
From 2004 to 2007 it was the third most marginal electorate in Australia, after
Hindmarsh and
Kingston, with the ALP incumbent
Kim Wilkie
Kim Wilkie (born 3 June 1959), Australian
politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the
Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to December 2007, representing the Electoral Division of Swan, Western Australia. He was bor ...
winning 50.08 percent of the two-party-preferred vote in
2004
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.
At the
2007 election, Liberal candidate
Steve Irons won the seat with a swing of 0.19 percent. Irons was the only
Coalition
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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
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, 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.
Hannah Beazley contested the seat for Labor but ultimately conceded defeat.
After Steve Iron's retirement at the
2022 Australian federal election
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, the seat was contested by Kristy McSweeney from the Liberal Party. She was defeated by
Zaneta Mascarenhas from the Labor Party.
Geography
Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the
Australian Electoral Commission
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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.
Swan is bordered by
Swan River in the north and west,
Canning River
The Canning River (Djarlgarra in Nyungar) is a major tributary of the Swan River in the South West Land Division of Western Australia. It is home to much wildlife including dolphins, pelicans, swans and many other bird species.
Source a ...
and
City of Canning
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in the south, and
Roe Highway
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,
Great Eastern Highway
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and
Perth Airport
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It is the fourth busiest airport in Australia measured by passenger movements and falls within the boundaries of ...
in the east. Suburbs include:
*
Ascot
*
Belmont
*
Burswood
*
Bentley
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*
Cannington
*
Carlisle
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*
Cloverdale
*
Como
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Its proximity to Lake Como and ...
*
East Cannington
*
East Victoria Park
*
Forrestfield (part)
*
High Wycombe
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*
Karawara
*
Kensington
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*
Kewdale
*
Lathlain
*
Manning
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*
Redcliffe
*
Rivervale Rivervale may refer to:
In Australia
* Rivervale, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
In Singapore
* Rivervale, Singapore, a precinct of the district of Sengkang located in north-eastern Singapore
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* Rivervale, Arkansas, a s ...
*
Perth Airport
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It is the fourth busiest airport in Australia measured by passenger movements and falls within the boundaries of ...
*
Queens Park
*
Salter Point
*
South Guildford (part)
*
South Perth
*
St James
*
Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to:
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*
Waterford
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Welshpool
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*
Wilson
In August 2021, the
Australian Electoral Commission
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Responsibilities
The AEC's main responsibility is to ...
(AEC) announced that Swan would lose the suburb of
Wilson to the seat of
Tangney and gain the suburbs of
Maida Vale
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and
Wattle Grove and the remainder of
Forrestfield and
High Wycombe
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from the seat of
Hasluck. 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
References
External links
Division of Swan - Australian Electoral Commission
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Electoral divisions of Australia
Constituencies established in 1901
1901 establishments in Australia
Federal politics in Western Australia