Division of Moore

Moore Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Moore in Western Australia, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1949
MP	Ian Goodenough
Party	Liberal
Namesake	George Fletcher Moore
Electors	99,916 (2016)
Area	90 km^2 (34.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Moore is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. Eligible voters within the Division elect a single representative, known as the member for Moore, to the Australian House of Representatives. The Division was named after George Fletcher Moore, the first Advocate-General of Western Australia, and is at present a safe Liberal seat held by Ian Goodenough since the 2013 federal election, having changed significantly throughout its history in both geographical area and in political character.

History

Due to significant demographic change, the seat's boundaries and constituency has evolved considerably since it was proclaimed at the 11 May 1949 redistribution, when it was for the most part a rural seat covering parts of the Wheatbelt to the north and east of Perth, the state capital, along the Indian Ocean coast—a similar region to that presently covered by the state seat of Moore. At its first election, the 1949 election, it was won by the Country Party. The seat maintained its rural character over the years as construction of the northern suburbs from the 1960s onwards forced its southern boundary just beyond the urban fringe of Perth, but the 28 February 1980 redistribution moved much of the rural hinterland into the new seat of O'Connor, and the creation of Cowan four years later in the suburbs north of Reid Highway to Whitfords Avenue saw Moore transformed into a safe Labor seat with a population centred on Midland, but still including the Chittering, Gingin and Dandaragan local government areas to the north.

The creation of Pearce at the 31 March 1989 redistribution pushed Moore into the now heavily urban and relatively affluent coastal areas north of the Reid Highway, removing areas like Midland and Beechboro completely and making it a notionally Liberal seat.^[1] The Liberals won it at the 1990 election and have held it ever since, apart from the period between the 1996 and 1998 federal elections when the disendorsed former member Paul Filing held it as an Independent.

Geography

The seat presently contains the majority of the City of Joondalup, in the northwest metropolitan area of Perth. Suburbs presently included are:^[2]

• Burns Beach
• Connolly
• Craigie
• Currambine
• Duncraig
• Edgewater
• Heathridge
• Hillarys
• Iluka
• Joondalup
• Kallaroo
• Kingsley (part)
• Kinross
• Marmion
• Mullaloo
• Ocean Reef
• Padbury
• Sorrento
• Woodvale

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Hugh Leslie	Country	1949–1958
	Hugh Halbert	Liberal	1958–1961
	Hugh Leslie	Country	1961–1963
	Don Maisey	Country	1963–1974
	John Hyde	Liberal	1974–1983
	Allen Blanchard	Labor	1983–1990
	Paul Filing	Liberal	1990–1995
		Independent	1995–1998
	Mal Washer	Liberal	1998–2013
	Ian Goodenough	Liberal	2013–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2016: Moore^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Ian Goodenough	48,133	54.98	+1.01
	Labor	Tony Walker	25,118	28.69	+2.88
	Greens	Daniel Lindley	11,100	12.68	+2.81
	Christians	Maryka Groenewald	3,194	3.65	+1.85
Total formal votes			87,545	96.80	+1.14
Informal votes			2,891	3.20	−1.14
Turnout			90,436	90.51	−5.09
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Ian Goodenough	53,416	61.02	−1.42
	Labor	Tony Walker	34,129	38.98	+1.42
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.42

References

1. Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
2. "Profile of the electoral division of Moore (WA)". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
3. Moore, WA, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

• Division of Moore - Australian Electoral Commission

Coordinates: 31°44′20″S 115°45′29″E / 31.739°S 115.758°E