Electoral district of Wanneroo

Wanneroo is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

Wanneroo Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
Location of Wanneroo (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
State	Western Australia
Dates current	1989–present
MP	Sabine Winton
Party	Labor
Namesake	Wanneroo
Electors	31,301 (2021)
Area	454 km2 (175.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Electorates around Wanneroo: Butler Moore Moore Butler Burns Beach Joondalup Wanneroo Moore Swan Hills Joondalup Kingsley Landsdale West Swan

The district is located in the northern suburbs of Perth.

Wanneroo is a traditionally a marginal seat; it has been held by the government of the day on every occasion since its creation in 1989. However, at the 2021 state election, which resulted in a second consecutive landslide for Mark McGowan, the marginal trend was broken and Wanneroo became a very safe seat for the Labor Party.

Geography

Wanneroo is based in the outer northern suburbs of Perth. It includes the suburbs of Ashby, Banksia Grove, Carramar, Gnangara, Hocking, Jandabup, Madeley, Mariginiup, Pearsall, Sinagra, Tapping, Wangara and Wanneroo.

History

Wanneroo was first created for the 1989 state election. It replaced the abolished seat of Joondalup, and was won by Labor MP Jackie Watkins, then the member for Joondalup. Watkins lost the seat one term later when Labor lost government at the 1993 state election. The seat remained in Liberal Party hands for two terms until the party lost government at the 2001 state election. This pattern asserted itself again at the 2008 state election when Labor's two term hold on the seat ended with the defeat of the Labor government.

Members for Wanneroo

Member		Party	Term
	Jackie Watkins	Labor	1989–1993
	Wayde Smith	Liberal	1993–1996
	Iain MacLean	Liberal	1996–2001
	Dianne Guise	Labor	2001–2008
	Paul Miles	Liberal	2008–2017
	Sabine Winton	Labor	2017–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Wanneroo

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2021 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Wanneroo.[edit]

2021 Western Australian state election: Wanneroo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Sabine Winton	18,366	71.8	+24.4
	Liberal	Paul Miles	4,686	18.3	−11.3
	Greens	Matthew Ward	1,150	4.5	−3.2
	No Mandatory Vaccination	J. Bullock	637	2.5	+2.5
	Western Australia	Lilian Siviour	404	1.6	+0.5
	WAxit	Sandy Culum-Buzak	335	1.3	+0.8
Total formal votes			25,578	95.7	+0.2
Informal votes			1,152	4.3	−0.2
Turnout			26,730	85.4	+5.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Sabine Winton	20,059	78.4	+19.8
	Liberal	Paul Miles	5,516	21.6	−19.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+19.8

External links

• ABC election profiles: 2005 2008
• WAEC district maps: current boundaries, previous distributions