Mandurah Western Australia—Legislative Assembly |
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Location of Mandurah (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
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State | Western Australia |
Dates current | 1983–present |
MP | David Templeman |
Party | Labor |
Namesake | Mandurah |
Electors | 28,977 (2017) |
Area | 74 km2 (28.6 sq mi) |
Demographic | South West |
Mandurah is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.
The district is based on the coastal satellite city of Mandurah to the south of Perth.
The seat has switched between the major parties on a couple of occasions, but has recently become stronger for the Labor Party.
The district is a compact coastal electorate lying just to the south of the Metropolitan Region Scheme and north of the Peel Inlet. It includes the communities of Coodanup, Greenfields, Lakelands, Madora Bay, Mandurah, Meadow Springs, 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.
First contested at the 1983 state election, Mandurah was won by Labor candidate John Read. Read lost the seat at the 1989 state election to Liberal candidate Roger Nicholls. Nicholls held the seat for three terms before his defeat at the 2001 state election to Labor candidate David Templeman, who holds the seat to this day.