ALP 2.9%
Incumbent MP
Lisa Baker, since 2008.
Geography
North-eastern Perth. Maylands mostly lies in the City of Bayswater, with a small part in the City of Stirling. The district covers the suburbs of Bedford, Embleton, Inglewood and Maylands, and parts of Bayswater and Morley.
Redistribution
Maylands shifted to the west, losing a strip of land to the east of the Tonkin Highway to Bassendean, and gaining the remainder of Inglewood from Mount Lawley. These changes cut the Labor margin from 3.1% to 2.9%.
History
Maylands has existed continuously since 1930. The ALP has won the seat at every election bar one since 1956.
John Harman won the seat back in 1968 for the ALP after one term of a Liberal Party MP. He held the seat until his retirement in 1986.
Harman was succeeded by Peter Dowding, a cabinet minister and a Member of the Legislative Council since 1979. Dowding became Premier in 1988, and served for two years before being ousted in 1990.
Dowding resigned from Maylands in 1990, triggering a by-election that was won by Judy Edwards.
Edwards held Maylands for eighteen years, serving as a minister from 2001 to 2006, and retiring in 2008.
Lisa Baker won Maylands in 2008, again as the Labor candidate, and she was re-elected in 2013.
Candidates
- Greg Smith (Julie Matheson for WA)
- Caroline Perks (Greens)
- Lisa Baker (Labor)
- Benny Fensome (Micro Business Party)
- Matt Kleyn (Australian Christians)
- Amanda Madden (Liberal)
Assessment
Maylands is a marginal Labor seat, but the statewide swing is likely to strengthen Labor’s hold on the seat.
2013 result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Sylvan Albert | Liberal | 8,893 | 42.8 | +8.7 | 42.9 |
| Lisa Baker | Labor | 8,796 | 42.3 | -1.2 | 42.2 |
| Dee O’Neill | Greens | 2,554 | 12.3 | -6.6 | 12.3 |
| Paul Madden | Australian Christians | 533 | 2.6 | -0.9 | 2.6 |
| Informal | 1,445 | 6.5 |
2013 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Lisa Baker | Labor | 11,020 | 53.1 | -5.7 | 52.9 |
| Sylvan Albert | Liberal | 9,751 | 46.9 | +5.7 | 47.1 |
Booth breakdown
Booths have been divided into three parts: north-east, north-west and south.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 50.3% in the south to 56% in the north-east.
The Greens vote ranged from 10.7% in the north-east to 12.9% in the south.
| Voter group | GRN % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North-East | 10.7 | 56.1 | 6,137 | 29.5 |
| North-West | 12.5 | 52.5 | 5,443 | 26.2 |
| South | 12.9 | 50.3 | 4,314 | 20.7 |
| Pre-poll | 15.0 | 49.5 | 879 | 4.2 |
| Other votes | 13.0 | 52.2 | 4,037 | 19.4 |
Election results in Maylands at the 2013 WA state election
Click on the ‘visible layers’ box to toggle between two-party-preferred votes and Greens primary votes.
Quite an interesting and diverse seat, a lot of changes in the area and over time it seems to becoming increasingly less secure for the ALP, although they should easily hold it this time around.
Expect a swing to the Greens who polled around 20% of the vote in Maylands, Inglewood and Bayswater at the Federal election.