LIB 11.0%
Incumbent MP
Ian Goodenough, since 2013.
Geography
Northern Perth. Moore covers suburbs along the coast on the northern fringe of Perth, including Hillarys, Sorrento, Mullaloo, Ocean Reef, Joondalup, Kinross, Kingsley and Woodvale.
History
Moore was created for the 1949 election, and has been dominated by conservative parties for most of its history. It has been held by the Country Party or Liberal Party for most of that period, although it was won by the ALP at three elections in the 1980s and was retained by a former Liberal independent in the 1990s.
Moore was first won in 1949 by the Country Party’s Hugh Leslie, a former state MP. Leslie held the seat until 1958, when he lost the seat to the Liberal Party’s Hugh Halbert. Leslie won the seat back in 1961, and retired in 1963.
Donald Maisey won the seat for the Country Party in 1963. He held the seat for the next decade, and lost in 1974 to the Liberal Party’s John Hyde. Hyde helped form ‘the Dries’ as a group of Liberal backbenchers supporting mass privatisations and deregulation, and was highly critical of the Fraser government. Hyde lost his seat in 1983.
The ALP’s Allen Blanchard won Moore in 1983, and held the seat until the 1990 election, when he lost to Liberal candidate Paul Filing.
Paul Filing was re-elected in 1993, but in 1995 he lost Liberal endorsement for Moore, and he became an independent. He managed to win re-election in 1996, but he lost the seat in 1998 to Liberal candidate Mal Washer.
Washer held Moore for five terms, and retired in 2013.. Washer was succeeded in 2013 by Liberal candidate Ian Goodenough, who was re-elected in 2016.
Candidates
Assessment
Moore is a safe Liberal seat.
2016 result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Ian Goodenough | Liberal | 48,133 | 55.0 | +1.0 |
| Tony Walker | Labor | 25,118 | 28.7 | +2.9 |
| Daniel Lindley | Greens | 11,100 | 12.7 | +2.8 |
| Maryka Groenewald | Australian Christians | 3,194 | 3.6 | +1.9 |
| Informal | 2,891 | 3.2 |
2016 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Ian Goodenough | Liberal | 53,416 | 61.0 | -1.4 |
| Tony Walker | Labor | 34,129 | 39.0 | +1.4 |
Booth breakdown
Booths have been divided into three parts: central, north and south.
The Liberal Party won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 58% in the north to 68.8% in the south.
The Greens primary vote ranged from 11.5% in the south to 12.6% in the centre.
| Voter group | GRN prim % | LIB 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| Central | 12.6 | 59.8 | 28,827 | 32.9 |
| North | 12.5 | 58.0 | 24,307 | 27.8 |
| South | 11.5 | 68.8 | 12,760 | 14.6 |
| Other votes | 14.9 | 60.8 | 12,065 | 13.8 |
| Pre-poll | 12.3 | 62.2 | 9,586 | 10.9 |
Election results in Moore at the 2016 federal election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and Greens primary votes.
Goodenough is a superb example of the POV that if an MLA has not progressed after 2 or 3 terms, they ought to be dis endorsed. The silence from Moore is deafening.
Maybe i’m being unfair, if so, can someone enlighten me.
Goodenough seems like a bit of an invisible MP and his endorsement in Moore seems like a waste of a safe seat, who knows maybe he is good behind the scenes performer but you don’t hear anything from or about him.
You would think the Liberals would want to move Christian Porter to this seat seeing as they will struggle to hold Pearce at the next election.
I can see Porter being parachuted into this one.
This seat has a lot of freshly minted Labor state MPs trying to maintain big local profiles in their ultra marginal seats; perhaps that might swing things a bit? I’m not sure whether they’re great campaigners or Barry Urban types who didn’t expect to win.
Still very tough for Labor without a stellar candidate.
Malcolm
The Liberals may have Porter recontest for the same reason they had Albanese recontest Grayndler; they think his profile might be enough to save a seat that would be a near certain loss if he vacated. The Liberals really can’t afford to lose any seats.
If they Liberals do end up parachuting front benchers like Porter and Dutton into safer seats, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Liberal internal polls have them losing, badly.
I mean, parties can look longer-term too. The seat of Moore seems a more stable and naturally Liberal seat these days, whereas Pearce is the kind of seat that will always get knocked around at redistributions. If the Libs see Porter as a long-term prospect, he’d be better off accomodated in Moore, where he’d never have to worry about whether a redistribution will take his margin out from under him.
In the same vein, I think Shorten should swallow his pride and plump for Fraser instead of Maribyrnong, for example. Not because he’s any chance of losing his seat in 2019, just because his longer-term prospects are better in a seat with no Liberal or Green base. He’d never have a single sleepless night about holding Fraser.
Porter should really be the member for Tangney, which overlaps with his former state seat of Bateman. The Liberal party waited a term too long to move the useless Jensen on.
Goodenough appears to be another Jensen.
I can only see Porter moving to this seat if he loses Pearce next election and he recontests in 2021/2022 or if Pearce is abolished by then.
Labor ought to run a good candidate here, it will be close based off state margins and Goodenough is not a very well known MP.
Alas I’ll predict a Liberal retain, i’d imagine Pearce and Stirling will be higher priorities for Labor.
I would like to see a strong Independent representative for Moore in the 2019 election. Two party politics need dilution. Parties with large majorities cease to represent the electorate. Best they be kept on a knife edge with independents who are true representatives of the electorate and who are not slaves to party politics. Party politics and party political survival override what is best for the country. Just my opinion of course.
A Candidate has been left out.
Ziggi Murphy: Independent
Website: https://www.ziggimurphyindependent.com/
Goodenough is a bit of a dinosaur who hangs in there with the Abbott/Dutton crowd on the Christian issues. He voted against the will of his electorate on all the LGBTIQ stuff, for instance.
We need politicians across the board who have got the memo that we have hit the 21st century and are not stuck in the 1950s!
Finally an Independent for this seat that isn’t tied to those nut-job small parties over east. I liked Washer as a MP as I believe he had similar views to the people in his electorate, or he actually listened to the people and may have actually had different views. I can’t say the same for Goodenough as I’ve seen very little from him until all the “spending” commitments started flowing in recently. Goodenough is the only MP that I have ever written to blasting a liberal party policy about tertiary education. His response was to try and polish the turd it was, luckily the senate blocked it. The world has changed and the backslapping dinosaurs that are in the Liberal party keep looking in the past.
Liberal will probably retain but I feel his margin will keep slipping.
Wine I agree…. what has he done? remember something about Rolex watches
this defacto a safe seat ……… should not the libs pick talent?
Mick
Yep . move him on. Trouble is that he was born in Singapore . So if anything happens the libs are “losing diversity”. Or maybe it would be “racist”. Drives me mental. PC is the shield for the incompetent, & useless.
Yeah what was that about rolex watches ??
I’m pretty surprised Porter wasn’t parachuted into this seat, why waste a safe seat on such a dud like the ironically named Goodenough and leave your supposed rising star struggling in a marginal next door?
Boatswain, the theory is probably that Porter should be able to sandbag that seat, whereas if he jumps ship it’s a certain goner.
If Porter loses Pearce, I anticipate that Goodenough (who is surprisingly young) will be moved on, or Porter will be found a seat in the senate.
John
Agree. Sounds like a plan !!. To me at least.
I voted for Goodenough. Little did I know that he hangs out with the Abbott crowd and back stabbers. That’s not Goodenough anymore. Climate Change is not mentioned once in any of his brochures. We need to plan more than 4 years ahead. Because billions will be lost in Australia if the globe is doing nothing.
@ROMERSO if Goodenough hangs out with the Abbott crowd as well as the backstabbers in the Liberals, that would show his attempts to have sounds cross-factional relationships.
Goodenough and Ziggy Murphy are the only candidates who have bothered to send me any information about themselves and their policies. Is there actually a Labor candidate standing for Moore? What about the other candidates? Their silence is deafening! I’m more undecided who to vote for than in any previous election and I only have a few more hours to make a choice. Don’t particularly like Goodenough but dislike Labour’s history of financial mismanagement more.
Goodenough and Ziggy Murphy are the only candidates who have bothered to send me any information about themselves and their policies. Is there actually a Labor candidate standing for Moore? What about the other candidates? Their silence is deafening! Don’t particularly like Goodenough but dislike Labour’s history of financial mismanagement more.
Another aged pensioner,
I agree with concerned aged pensioner, the lack of information in our letterbox is frightening. only Goodenough, who aint, and Ziggy have sent flyers. The rest have sent nothing. Myself, my wife, and daughter
are going to the polls knowing sweet F.A. about who is up for the seat.