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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Electoral District Of Bicton

Bicton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It is located in Perth's southern suburbs, and named after the riverside suburb of Bicton.

Bicton was created by the Western Australian Electoral Commission in a 2015 redistribution, and elected its first member at the 2017 state election. It incorporates areas that previously fell into the seats of Alfred Cove, Bateman, Fremantle and Willagee.

Geography

At the 2017 state election, Bicton includes the suburbs of Attadale, Bicton, and Melville in their entireties, most of East Fremantle and Palmyra, and smaller portions of Alfred Cove, Fremantle, and Myaree. It is bounded by Stirling Highway to the west, High Street and Leach Highway to the south, North Lake Road to the east and the Swan River to the north.

Members for Bicton

Bicton was created as a notionally safe Liberal seat with a majority of 10 percent over Labor, and was reckoned as the successor to the safe Liberal seat of Alfred Cove. However, in 2017, it was swept up in a massive Labor wave that swept through Perth, with Labor's Lisa O'Malley winning the seat on a swing of 13 percent. She defeated Matt Taylor, who had been the Liberal member for Bateman.

At the 2021 state election, O'Malley saw her margin swell to 15.6 percent, turning Bicton into a safe Labor seat in one stroke.

Member Party Term
  Lisa O'Malley Labor 2017–present

Election results

2021 Western Australian state election: Bicton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Lisa O'Malley 13,556 55.1 +15.2
Liberal Nicole Robins 7,559 30.7 −11.6
Greens Annie Hill Otness 2,450 10.0 −1.1
One Nation Jonathon Graham 297 1.2 +1.2
No Mandatory Vaccination Silvia Hirsbrunner 293 1.2 +1.2
Liberal Democrats Michael Prinz 267 1.1 +1.1
Christians Deonne Kingsford 185 0.8 −0.3
Total formal votes 24,607 97.5 +0.5
Informal votes 628 2.5 −0.5
Turnout 25,235 89.2 −0.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Lisa O'Malley 16,136 65.6 +11.9
Liberal Nicole Robins 8,466 34.4 −11.9
Labor hold Swing +11.9

References

  1. ^ 2015 Final Boundaries by Region and District, Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. ^ 2021 State General Election – Bicton District Results, WAEC
  • ABC election profiles: 2017
  • WAEC district maps: 2015