Landsdale is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.
| Landsdale Western Australia—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Location of Landsdale (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area | |||||||||||||||
| State | Western Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 2021–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Margaret Quirk | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Landsdale | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 31,040 (2021) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 26 km2 (10.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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Geography
editLandsdale is located in Perth's northern suburbs. It is bounded to the west by the Wanneroo Road, to the south by the Hepburn Avenue and Marangaroo Drive, to the east by Alexander Drive. Its northernmost boundary is Elliot Road in Hocking. The districts includes the suburbs of Landsdale, Darch, Madeley, Alexander Heights, Wangara, Pearsall and Hocking.
History
editThe district was created for the 2021 state election, essentially as a new name for the district of Girrawheen.[1][2] It is a notional fairly safe Labor seat.
Members for Landsdale
edit| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Quirk | Labor | 2021–present | |
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Margaret Quirk | 18,217 | 69.3 | +19.4 | |
| Liberal | Brett Raponi | 5,293 | 20.1 | −11.9 | |
| Greens | Katrina House | 1,090 | 4.1 | −2.1 | |
| Western Australia | Shailee Desai | 878 | 3.3 | +3.1 | |
| No Mandatory Vaccination | Leah Beedham | 579 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
| WAxit | Sareeta Doobree | 236 | 0.9 | −0.7 | |
| Total formal votes | 26,293 | 95.7 | +0.8 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,183 | 4.3 | −0.8 | ||
| Turnout | 27,476 | 88.5 | +2.9 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Margaret Quirk | 19,820 | 75.4 | +15.8 | |
| Liberal | Brett Raponi | 6,471 | 24.6 | −15.8 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +15.8 | |||
References
edit- ^ "2019 Districts in the metropolitan regions: Landsdale" (PDF). Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ "2019 Review of Western Australia's Electoral Boundaries - Final Boundaries" (PDF). Western Australian Electoral Commission. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ 2021 State General Election – Landsdale District Results, WAEC
External links
edit- WAEC district maps: current boundaries, previous distributions