Electoral district of Joondalup

Joondalup is an Electoral district of Western Australia. As in other districts, the Joondalup district elects a single person to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The elected person is then known as the Member for Joondalup, and is said to hold the seat of Joondalup. As of 2005, the Member for Joondalup is Tony O'Gorman who holds the seat for the Labor Party with a margin of 3.3%.

Profile

Joondalup is an outer northern suburban seat in Perth, covering a rather peculiarly-shaped 32 km² between Lake Joondalup and the Indian Ocean. It includes the suburbs of Joondalup, Connolly, Heathridge, Beldon, Craigie and parts of Edgewater, Mullaloo and Kallaroo. This seat is definitionally marginal as it includes both safe ALP areas (Heathridge, Beldon and Craigie) and Liberal areas (Joondalup and Connolly) together with several "swing" suburbs.

History

"By Antony Green, ABC election analyst"

Joondalup was first contested as an electorate at the 1983 election, when it was one of the outer northern suburban seats that swept Labor into office under Brian Burke. However, it was abolished in 1989 to be replaced by the electorate of Wanneroo. By the 1996 election, Wanneroo was well over quota, and the electorate was divided, with Joondalup created from areas west of Lake Joondalup. It was won at the 1996 election by (the Liberal candidate) Chris Baker, who then lost it to Labor's Tony O'Gorman in a 6.3% swing in 2001. O'Gorman trailed by a thousand votes until the distribution of Green preferences.

References

[http://www.abc.net.au/elections/wa/2005/guide/joon.htm 2005 West Australian Election. Joondalup Electorate Profile.]