ALP 6.7%
Incumbent MP
Kim Giddens, since 2021.
Geography
Inner-southern Perth. Bateman covers the suburbs of Bateman, Booragoon, Mount Pleasant, Myaree, Winthrop and Kardinya. Bateman entirely lies inside the City of Melville.
Redistribution
No change.
History
Bateman was created in 2008, largely replacing the former district of Murdoch. Murdoch had existed from 1977 to 1989 and from 1996 to 2008. Murdoch and Bateman had consistently been won by the Liberal Party until 2021.
Murdoch was won in 2005 by Trevor Sprigg. He died in January 2008, triggering a by-election.
The 2008 by-election was easily won by Liberal candidate Christian Porter.
Porter was immediately appointed as Shadow Attorney-General. Murdoch was largely replaced by Bateman in 2008, and Porter was appointed Attorney-General in the newly elected Liberal government.
Porter became Treasurer in late 2010. In late 2012 he stepped down from the front bench to run for the federal seat of Pearce at the 2013 federal election, and stepped down from the state parliament at the 2013 election in anticipation of his federal run. He was elected to represent Pearce in 2013 and was re-elected in 2016.
The Liberal Party’s Matt Taylor won Bateman in 2013.
The redistribution prior to the 2017 election abolished the neighbouring seat of Alfred Cove and redrew Bateman significantly, taking in large parts of Alfred Cove and losing other areas to the newly-named seat of Bicton. Taylor moved to Bicton where he was defeated for re-election.
Bateman was won in 2017 by the Liberal Party’s Dean Nalder who had won Alfred Cove in 2013. Nalder retired in 2021, and Labor’s Kim Giddens won Bateman with a 14.5% swing.
- Kim Giddens (Labor)
- Donna Gordin (Nationals)
- Kirsty Robbie (Australian Christians)
- Nitin Vashisht (Liberal)
Assessment
Labor didn’t win Bateman by a particularly large margin, even with their massive victory in 2021. There are just four other Labor seats held by smaller margins. If the Liberal Party don’t regain this seat, they will be doing very badly.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Kim Giddens | Labor | 12,106 | 45.8 | +15.5 |
| Matt Woodall | Liberal | 9,762 | 37.0 | -12.8 |
| Adam Abdul Razak | Greens | 1,815 | 6.9 | -3.5 |
| Steve Kepert | Independent | 856 | 3.2 | +3.2 |
| Fiona McKenzie-Brown | Australian Christians | 774 | 2.9 | -0.2 |
| Gregory Leech | Liberal Democrats | 341 | 1.3 | +1.3 |
| Christina Tseng | No Mandatory Vaccination | 314 | 1.2 | +1.2 |
| Bill Koul | Western Australia Party | 228 | 0.9 | +0.1 |
| Barry Mason | One Nation | 213 | 0.8 | -3.2 |
| Informal | 762 | 2.8 |
2021 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Kim Giddens | Labor | 14,963 | 56.7 | +14.5 |
| Matt Woodall | Liberal | 11,436 | 43.3 | -14.5 |
Polling places have been split into three parts: north, south-east and south-west.
Labor’s two-party-preferred vote ranged from 50.6% in the north to 61.2% in the south-west.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| South-West | 61.2 | 3,656 | 13.8 |
| South-East | 57.1 | 3,470 | 13.1 |
| North | 50.6 | 2,781 | 10.5 |
| Pre-poll | 57.0 | 10,694 | 40.5 |
| Other votes | 55.9 | 5,808 | 22.0 |
Election results in Bateman at the 2021 WA state election
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