Katrina Stratton
Katrina Stratton | |
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Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Nedlands | |
Assumed office 13 March 2021 | |
Preceded by | Bill Marmion |
Personal details | |
Born | Subiaco, Western Australia | 6 January 1973
Political party | Labor |
Katrina Stratton (born 6 January 1973)[1] is a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nedlands for the Australian Labor Party. She won her seat at the 2021 Western Australian state election.[2]
Stratton has a doctorate in social work and lectured at Curtin University.[3] She was also a board member at Tuart Place, a resource service for adults who were in out-of-home care during their childhood.[4][5]
The seat had been held by the Liberals or their predecessors since its creation in 1930, most notably by former premiers Charles and Richard Court. As a measure of how strongly the seat tilted toward the Liberals, in 2001 Labor was pushed into third place even as the Liberals suffered the second-largest defeat of a sitting government in the state's history at the time.[6] The incumbent member, former minister and former deputy opposition leader Bill Marmion, sat on a margin of eight percent after a redistribution before the writs were issued. However, Stratton narrowly led Marmion on the first count after Marmion lost over 16 percent of his primary vote from 2017.[2] Stratton ultimately won the seat with 52.8% of the two-party preferred vote, a swing of 10.8%, after preferences were distributed. She defeated Marmion on the fifth count after over three-fourths of Green preferences flowed to her.[7] Her victory was part of a large swing toward Labor in west Perth, an area long considered Liberal heartland.[8]
References[]
- ^ "Dr Katrina Stratton MLA". Parliament of Western Australia.
- ^ a b "Nedlands - Western Australia Election 2021 Electorate, Candidates, Results | WA Votes - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
- ^ "Dr Katrina Stratton". Research at Curtin. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
- ^ "Tuart Place". Retrieved 18 March 2021.
- ^ "Katrina Stratton | SIMNA". Retrieved 18 March 2021.
- ^ "2001 State General Election – District of Nedlands Results". Western Australian Electoral Commission. 12 March 2001. Archived from the original on 3 September 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
- ^ 2021 State General Election – Nedlands District Results, WAEC
- ^ Michael Ramsey (18 March 2021). "Labor pulls ahead in blue-ribbon WA seats". Seven News. Australian Associated Press.
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