Electoral district of Maylands

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Maylands
Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
WA Election 2021 - Maylands.png
Location of Maylands (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
StateWestern Australia
Dates current1930–present
MPLisa Baker
PartyLabor
NamesakeMaylands
Electors29,731 (2021)
Area21 km2 (8.1 sq mi)
DemographicEast Metropolitan

Maylands is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. Maylands is named for the inner northeastern Perth suburb of Maylands which falls within its borders.

Formerly a fairly safe Liberal seat, it has been held by the Labor Party for all but one term since 1956. Since a redistribution prior to the 1968 election, it has been a safe Labor seat. In addition to incorporating old Labor areas, demographic change in the former Liberal strongholds of Maylands and Inglewood as young, educated and largely single working people moved in to replace an older, more affluent population has ensured the Labor vote over several decades.

History[]

Maylands was created at the 1929 redistribution, at which five new metropolitan electorates were created to replace former Goldfields seats in Parliament.[1] Its first member was elected at the 1930 election, giving an eighth and final term in Parliament to former Premier John Scaddan, sitting as a Nationalist member. He was defeated at the 1933 election by a Labor candidate, but it reverted to an Independent Nationalist (later Liberal), Harry Shearn, who held the seat until his death on 25 January 1951. A redistribution in 1955 brought in suburbs in the Bayswater area, making the seat notionally Labor. Merv Toms won the seat for Labor at the 1956 election, while Edward Oldfield, the previous member, resigned from the Liberal Country League and held neighbouring Mount Lawley as an independent. After the 1961 redistribution, Toms elected to contest the new seat of Bayswater at the 1962 election, whilst Oldfield, who had since joined the Labor party, won Maylands, but narrowly lost it three years later. Another redistribution in 1966 changed the seat's status from marginal Liberal to safe Labor, and since John Harman's win at the 1968 election, it has been held by the Labor Party.[2] Harman ended his 18-year political career with a three-year stint as Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, and on his retirement, North Province MLC Peter Dowding moved from the Upper House into the seat. He became Premier of Western Australia on 25 February 1988 upon Brian Burke's retirement from politics. As the WA Inc scandal that came to be synonymous with his predecessor first became public knowledge then came to dominate political discourse in the State, Carmen Lawrence became Premier on 12 February 1990, and he resigned from parliament two months later. At the resulting by-election, Judy Edwards, who later served as Environment Minister in the Gallop Cabinet, was successful in retaining the seat for Labor.

Geography[]

Maylands is an odd-shaped seat, bounded by the Swan River to the south, Tonkin Highway to the east, Walter Road to the north and northwest, and Eighth and Central Avenue to the southwest. It includes all of Bedford and Embleton, almost all of Bayswater, Maylands and Inglewood, and small sections of Morley and Dianella. The Bayswater industrial area and Centro Galleria shopping centre are within the electorate's boundaries.[3]

The 2007 redistribution, which took effect at the 2008 election, resulted in the seat losing a section of Morley and Dianella between Morley Drive and Walter Road, as well as a small section of western Maylands along Guildford Road.[4]

Members for Maylands[]

Member Party Term
  John Scaddan Nationalist 1930–1933
  Robert Clothier Labor 1933–1936
  Harry Shearn Ind. Nationalist 1936–1943
  Independent 1943–1951
  Edward Oldfield LCL 1951–1956
  Merv Toms Labor 1956–1962
  Edward Oldfield Labor 1962–1965
  Bob Marshall LCL 1965–1968
  John Harman Labor 1968–1986
  Peter Dowding Labor 1986–1990
  Judy Edwards Labor 1990–2008
  Lisa Baker Labor 2008–present

Election results[]

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Maylands
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2021 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Maylands.[]
2021 Western Australian state election: Maylands[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Lisa Baker 15,303 62.0 +12.2
Greens Emma Pringle 3,985 16.1 −1.0
Liberal Justin Iemma 3,848 15.6 −11.8
No Mandatory Vaccination Carmel Addink 528 2.1 +2.1
Christians Gaye Burnett 449 1.8 −0.2
One Nation Maria Andreeva 339 1.4 +1.4
WAxit Peter Baker 226 0.9 −0.5
Total formal votes 24,678 96.4 +1.3
Informal votes 918 3.6 −1.3
Turnout 25,596 86.1 +0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Lisa Baker 19,566 79.3 +11.5
Liberal Justin Iemma 5,103 20.7 −11.5
Labor hold Swing +11.5

References[]

  1. ^ Government of Western Australia (1930). "Redistribution of Seats Act (No 1 of 1929)". Statutes of Western Australia, 1929–1930. pp. 1–56. Given assent on 15 April 1929.
  2. ^ Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890–1996. Perth: Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. pp. 183–188. ISBN 0-7309-8409-5.
  3. ^ Western Australian Electoral Commission (29 October 2007). "2007 Electoral Distribution – Final Boundaries – East Metropolitan – Maylands". Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
  4. ^ Western Australian Electoral Commission (4 August 2003). "2003 Electoral Distribution – Final Boundaries – South Metropolitan – Riverton". Archived from the original on 20 September 2007. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
  5. ^ 2021 State General Election – Maylands District Results, WAEC

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