ALP 29.4%
Incumbent MP
Cassie Rowe, since 2017.
- Geography
- Redistribution
- History
- Candidate summary
- Assessment
- 2021 results
- Booth breakdown
- Results maps
Geography
Inner-eastern Perth. Belmont covers suburbs on the south side of the Swan River, including the suburbs Rivervale, Kewdale, Belmont, Cloverdale, Redcliffe, Ascot, Hazelmere and part of South Guilford. The seat covers the entirety of Belmont council area, and parts of Victoria Park, Canning and Swan council areas.
Redistribution
Belmont lost the Burswood peninsula to Victoria Park.
History
Belmont has existed continuously since 1989, and previously from 1962 until 1974. The seat has been held by Labor at all but one election.
The seat was won in 1989 by Eric Ripper.
Ripper had won a by-election in the seat of Ascot in 1988, after the resignation of former Deputy Premier Mal Bryce.
In 1989, Ascot was abolished and most of the population was put into Belmont.
Ripper served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition under Geoff Gallop from 1996 to 2001, and then Deputy Premier in the Gallop and Carpenter governments until 2008.
After the ALP lost power in 2008, Ripper became Leader of the Opposition. He held the position until early 2012, when he resigned and was replaced by Mark McGowan.
Ripper retired at the 2013 election, and Belmont was won by Liberal candidate Glenys Godfrey with a 7.6% swing.
Godfrey lost to Labor’s Cassie Rowe in 2017, and Rowe was re-elected in 2021.
- Biju Anthony (Liberal)
- Cassie Rowe (Labor)
- Nathanael Yap (Australian Christians)
Assessment
Labor’s margin in Belmont is most definitely inflated, but Belmont is the 13th-safest Labor seat in the state so Labor would have to do extremely poorly for Belmont to be in play.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Cassie Rowe | Labor | 16,722 | 70.4 | +21.3 | 70.7 |
| Charlotte Butler | Liberal | 3,819 | 16.1 | -14.2 | 15.9 |
| Clint Uink | Greens | 1,651 | 7.0 | -0.6 | 6.9 |
| Nitasha Naidu | Australian Christians | 566 | 2.4 | +0.5 | 2.4 |
| Chris Fenech | One Nation | 433 | 1.8 | -4.7 | 1.8 |
| Shaun Rose | No Mandatory Vaccination | 374 | 1.6 | +1.6 | 1.6 |
| Mohammed Boksmati | WAxit | 174 | 0.7 | -0.6 | 0.7 |
| Informal | 1,019 | 4.1 |
2021 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Cassie Rowe | Labor | 18,795 | 79.2 | +17.8 | 79.4 |
| Charlotte Butler | Liberal | 4,938 | 20.8 | -17.8 | 20.6 |
Polling places have been split into three parts: central, north and south.
Labor’s two-party-preferred vote ranged from 78.2% in the north to 79.7% in the centre.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| North | 78.2 | 3,260 | 14.2 |
| Central | 79.7 | 2,459 | 10.7 |
| South | 79.6 | 1,803 | 7.9 |
| Pre-poll | 80.8 | 10,115 | 44.1 |
| Other votes | 77.3 | 5,291 | 23.1 |
Election results in Belmont at the 2021 WA state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and the Greens.