Mandurah is an

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of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of

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. The district is based on the coastal

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Mandurah Mandurah () is a coastal city in the Australian state of Western Australia, situated approximately south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's second most populous city, with a population of 107,641 as of the 2021 Australian census, 2 ...

to the south of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

. The seat has switched between the major parties on a couple of occasions, but has recently become stronger for the Labor Party.

Geography

The district is a compact coastal electorate lying just to the south of the

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and north of the

Peel Inlet The Peel-Harvey Estuarine System ( nys, Djilba) is a natural estuarine system that lies roughly parallel to the coast of Western Australia and south of the town of Mandurah. The strip of land between the Indian Ocean and the estuarine system ca ...

. It includes the communities of Coodanup, Greenfields, Lakelands,

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, Parklands, San Remo, Silver Sands which lie to the west of the Mandurah Estuary. The district also extends across the estuary, to include parts of Barragup and

Furnissdale Furnissdale is a locality near Mandurah, Western Australia, to the south of Pinjarra Road and near the Serpentine River entrance into the Peel Inlet within the Shire of Murray. Its postcode is 6209. At the 2011 census, Furnissdale had a popula ...

History

First contested at the 1983 state election, Mandurah was won by

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candidate John Read. Read lost the seat at the 1989 state election to

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candidate

Roger Nicholls Roger Keith Nicholls (born 22 April 1956) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Corrigin, Western Australia, and was involved in the Royal Australian Navy and in the mining industry before entering politics. In 1989 he was elected to ...

. Nicholls held the seat for three terms before his defeat at the 2001 state election to

candidate

David Templeman David Alan Templeman (born 21 November 1965) is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia since 2001, representing the seat of Mandurah. He is Leader of the House and Minist ...

, who holds the seat to this day. Mandurah has long been regarded as a non-metropolitan district, despite its close proximity to Perth. It is only 18 km south of Perth—close enough that it is part of the Perth television licence area. Before the

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reforms that took effect at the 2008 state election, this meant that Mandurah had roughly half the enrolment of neighbouring districts to the north. Whilst Mandurah now contains a similar number of enrolled voters to most other electorates, this tradition lives on as it falls inside the non-metropolitan

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Legislative Council region. The proposed 2011 redistribution would have seen Mandurah transferred to the South Metropolitan region. It would have absorbed the outer southern Perth suburbs of

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and

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, while the more rural suburbs of Barragup and

would have shifted to Murray-Wellington. However, the final boundaries left Mandurah in the South West region.

Geography

History

Members for Mandurah

Election results

References

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