Division of Canning

Canning Australian House of Representatives Division
300px Division of Canning (green) in Western Australia
Created	1949
MP	Andrew Hastie
Party	Liberal Party
Namesake	Alfred Canning
Electors	112,809 (2015)
Area	6,178 km2 (2,385.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Canning is an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Alfred Canning, the Western Australian government surveyor who surveyed the Canning Stock Route. It was originally a country seat that traded hands between the two main centre-right parties, the Liberal and Country parties.

Since 1980 it has been located in the southern suburbs of the two largest cities in Western Australia, Perth and Mandurah. For most of its last three decades, it has been a highly marginal seat due to the balanced proportion of the urban north and the rural south, changing hands between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party. Canning had a Liberal margin of 4.3 percent leading into the 2010 election, and was targeted by Labor, who stood high-profile candidate and former state Labor MP Alannah MacTiernan. The Liberals retained the seat; however, Canning was the only Western Australian seat to see a two-party preferred swing toward the Australian Labor Party.

A 2015 Canning by-election, triggered on 21 July following the death of Liberal Don Randall, was held on 19 September. Though the Turnbull Government was just four days old, their candidate Andrew Hastie retained the seat for the Liberals, despite having to rely on preferences after a substantial, though dampened, primary (−4.15%) and two-party (−6.55%) swing away from the Liberals − solidly less than the double-digit swings polls had predicted under an Abbott Government − however, some double-digit swings did eventuate among the northern suburban booths. The Canning Liberal margin was reduced from safe to marginal status. Political analysts agreed the by-election was a "good outcome for both major parties".

Geography

The division of Canning stretches from Kelmscott in the north to Wagerup in the south, and incorporates the metropolitan Perth areas of the City of Armadale and Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale as well as the regional areas incorporating the City of Mandurah south of, and including, Mandurah CBD itself as well as the Shires of Murray (including Pinjarra, Yunderup and Dwellingup), Waroona (including Waroona and Preston Beach) and Boddington.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Len Hamilton	Country	1949–1961
	Neil McNeill	Liberal	1961–1963
	John Hallett	Country	1963–1974
	Mel Bungey	Liberal	1974–1983
	Wendy Fatin	Labor	1983–1984
	George Gear	Labor	1984–1996
	Ricky Johnston	Liberal	1996–1998
	Jane Gerick	Labor	1998–2001
	Don Randall	Liberal	2001–2015
	Andrew Hastie	Liberal	2015–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Canning

See also: Canning by-election, 2015

Canning by-election, 2015

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Andrew Hastie	39,712	46.92	−4.15
	Labor	Matt Keogh	30,096	35.56	+8.92
	Greens	Vanessa Rauland	4,967	5.87	−1.53
	Palmer United	Vimal Sharma	2,600	3.07	−3.81
	Christians	Jamie van Burgel	2,433	2.87	−0.23
	Animal Justice	Katrina Love	1,195	1.41	+1.41
	Pirate	Michelle Allen	775	0.92	+0.92
	Defence Veterans	Greg Smith	690	0.82	+0.82
	Family First	Jim McCourt	623	0.74	−0.61
	Independent	Teresa van Lieshout	539	0.64	+0.64
	Sustainable Population	Angela Smith	513	0.61	+0.61
	Liberal Democrats	Connor Whittle	492	0.58	+0.58
Total formal votes			84,635	94.34	−0.14
Informal votes			5,082	5.66	+0.14
Turnout			89,717	79.53	−12.48
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Andrew Hastie	46,772	55.26	−6.55
	Labor	Matt Keogh	37,863	44.74	+6.55
	Liberal hold		Swing	−6.55

See also

• Canning by-election, 2015

External links

• Division of Canning - Australian Electoral Commission