Electoral District Of Maylands
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Maylands is a Legislative Assembly
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in the state of
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. Maylands is named for the inner northeastern
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suburb of Maylands, which falls within its borders. Formerly a fairly safe
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seat, it has been held by the Labor Party for all but one term since 1956. Since a redistribution prior to the 1968 election, it has been a safe Labor seat. In addition to incorporating old Labor areas, demographic change in the former Liberal strongholds of Maylands and Inglewood as young, educated and largely single working people moved in to replace an older, more affluent population has ensured the Labor vote over several decades.


History

Maylands was created at the 1929 redistribution, at which five new metropolitan electorates were created to replace former
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seats in Parliament. Its first member was elected at the 1930 election, giving an eighth and final term in Parliament to former
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, sitting as a
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member. He was defeated at the 1933 election by a
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candidate, but it reverted to an Independent Nationalist (later
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),
Harry Shearn Harry Vivian Shearn (28 April 1892 – 21 January 1951) was an Australian politician who was an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1936 until his death, representing the seat of Maylands. Shearn was born ...
, who held the seat until his death on 25 January 1951. A redistribution in 1955 brought in suburbs in the
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area, making the seat notionally Labor.
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won the seat for Labor at the 1956 election, while Edward Oldfield, the previous member, resigned from the Liberal Country League and held neighbouring
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as an independent. After the 1961 redistribution, Toms elected to contest the new seat of
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at the 1962 election, whilst Oldfield, who had since joined the Labor party, won Maylands, but narrowly lost it three years later. Another redistribution in 1966 changed the seat's status from marginal Liberal to safe Labor, and since John Harman's win at the 1968 election, it has been held by the Labor Party. Harman ended his 18-year political career with a three-year stint as
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, and on his retirement, North Province MLC
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moved from the
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into the seat. He became Premier of Western Australia on 25 February 1988 upon Brian Burke's retirement from politics. As the
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scandal that came to be synonymous with his predecessor first became public knowledge then came to dominate political discourse in the State,
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became Premier on 12 February 1990, and he resigned from parliament two months later. At the resulting
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,
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, who later served as Environment Minister in the
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Cabinet, was successful in retaining the seat for Labor.


Geography

Maylands is an odd-shaped seat, bounded by the Swan River to the south,
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to the east, Walter Road to the north and northwest, and Eighth and Central Avenue to the southwest. It includes all of
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and Embleton, almost all of
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, Maylands and Inglewood, and small sections of
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and
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. The Bayswater industrial area and
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shopping centre are within the electorate's boundaries. The 2007 redistribution, which took effect at the 2008 election, resulted in the seat losing a section of
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and
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between
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and Walter Road, as well as a small section of western Maylands along
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.


Members for Maylands


Election results


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maylands Maylands Constituencies established in 1930 1930 establishments in Australia