LIB 14.0%
Incumbent MP
Andrea Mitchell, since 2008.
Geography
Northern Perth. Kingsley mostly lies in the southeastern corner of Joondalup council area, along with small parts of Wanneroo council area. The seat covers the suburbs of Woodvale, Kingsley, Greenwood and parts of Warwick.
Redistribution
Kingsley kept all of its existing territory, and gained the remainder of Warwick from Girrawheen. This change cuts the Liberal margin from 14.8% to 14%.
History
Kingsley has existed as a seat since 1989, and has been held by the Liberal Party at all but one election.
Cheryl Edwardes won the seat in 1989. She served as a minister in the Court government in the 1990s, and retired in 2005. The ALP’s Judy Hughes won Kingsley in 2005 by less than 400 votes – the only Labor candidate to win a Liberal seat in 2005.
The Labor Party’s slim margin was almost entirely wiped out by the 2008 redistribution, and Hughes lost to Liberal candidate Andrea Mitchell with a 4.6% swing. Mitchell was re-elected in 2013.
Candidates
- John Mcnair (Julie Matheson for WA)
- Dominic Staltari (Micro Business Party)
- Andrea Mitchell (Liberal)
- Gilbert Burnside (Australian Christians)
- Matthew Ward (Greens)
- Jessica Stojkovski (Labor)
Assessment
Kingsley will probably stay in Liberal hands.
2013 result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Andrea Mitchell | Liberal | 13,030 | 60.0 | +12.0 | 59.3 |
| Brian Corr | Labor | 6,326 | 29.1 | -6.3 | 29.7 |
| Diana Mactiernan | Greens | 1,846 | 8.5 | -2.9 | 8.4 |
| Sophie Ann Mason | Australian Christians | 510 | 2.3 | -0.3 | 2.4 |
| Family First | 0.1 | ||||
| Informal | 1,207 | 5.3 |
2013 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Andrea Mitchell | Liberal | 14,056 | 64.8 | +10.2 | 64.0 |
| Brian Corr | Labor | 7,640 | 35.2 | -10.2 | 36.0 |
Booth breakdown
Booths have been divided into three parts: central, north and south.
The Liberal two-party-preferred vote was 57.6% in the south, and much higher around 68% in the centre and the north.
| Voter group | GRN % | LIB 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| Central | 7.5 | 67.5 | 6,754 | 29.6 |
| South | 9.4 | 57.6 | 6,652 | 29.1 |
| North | 7.6 | 68.4 | 4,703 | 20.6 |
| Other votes | 10.6 | 63.7 | 3,141 | 13.7 |
| Pre-poll | 6.6 | 63.9 | 1,603 | 7.0 |
Two-party-preferred votes in Kingsley at the 2013 WA state election
Kingsley again provides the icing on the cake of an emphatic Labor victory. ABC still has this in doubt, but I suspect Labor will do well out of absents.