ALP 13.3%
Incumbent MP
Lisa Munday, since 2021.
- Geography
- Redistribution
- History
- Candidate summary
- Assessment
- 2021 results
- Booth breakdown
- Results maps
Geography
Southern fringe of Perth. Dawesville covers southern parts of the Mandurah council area, including Halls Head, Falcon, Wannanup, Dawesville, Bouvard, Clifton and Herron.
Redistribution
Dawesville shifted south, losing Dudley Park to Mandurah and gaining a larger area to the south from Murray-Wellington.
History
The seat of Dawesville has existed since 1996, and had been held by the Liberal Party continuously until 2021.
Liberal MP Arthur Marshall moved to Dawesville in 1996. Marshall had won the seat of Murray in 1993, but moved to Dawesville when Murray shifted south and changed its name to Murray-Wellington. Marshall held Dawesville at the 1996 and 2001 elections, before retiring in 2005.
Kim Hames won Dawesville in 2005. Hames had previously represented the northern suburbs of Perth from 1993 until 2001, serving as a minister from 1997 until 2001. Hames had lost his seat in 2001, and resurrected his political career by moving to Dawesville in 2005.
Hames went straight back onto the frontbench after his election in 2005. He became deputy leader of the Liberal Party, and became deputy premier and a minister when the Liberal Party formed government in 2008.
Hames stepped down as deputy premier in early 2016, and left the ministry in the next reshuffle in March 2016. He retired at the 2017 election.
New Liberal candidate Zak Kirkup narrowly won the seat after a 12% swing almost wiped out his margin. Kirkup was elected Liberal leader in November 2020.
Kirkup led his party to a historic defeat, losing his own seat and all but two others in 2021. Labor candidate Lisa Munday easily defeated Kirkup.
Assessment
Dawesville is the kind of seat the Liberal Party needs to win if they are to be a feasible party of government. Labor doesn’t need this seat for government, but if Labor were to retain this seat it would suggest they are still very strong.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Lisa Munday | Labor | 15,024 | 57.7 | +24.4 | 57.1 |
| Zak Kirkup | Liberal | 8,400 | 32.3 | -4.6 | 32.7 |
| Stewart Godden | Greens | 820 | 3.2 | -1.2 | 3.2 |
| Kerry Gilmour | One Nation | 398 | 1.5 | -7.8 | 1.6 |
| Peter Stacey | Shooters, Fishers & Farmers | 337 | 1.3 | -1.3 | 1.4 |
| Mark Charles | Legalise Cannabis | 363 | 1.4 | +1.4 | 1.3 |
| Elijah Stonehouse | No Mandatory Vaccination | 238 | 0.9 | +0.9 | 0.9 |
| Patricia Leake | Nationals | 178 | 0.7 | -1.5 | 0.8 |
| Karen Oborn | Sustainable Australia | 125 | 0.5 | +0.5 | 0.5 |
| Melissa Oancea | WAxit | 74 | 0.3 | -0.4 | 0.3 |
| Bradley Chalke | Liberal Democrats | 62 | 0.2 | +0.2 | 0.3 |
| Informal | 1,017 | 3.8 |
2021 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Lisa Munday | Labor | 16,633 | 63.9 | +14.7 | 63.3 |
| Zak Kirkup | Liberal | 9,378 | 36.1 | -14.7 | 36.7 |
Polling places have been split into two parts: north and south.
Labor’s two-party-preferred vote was 64% in the south and 64.2% in the north.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North | 64.2 | 2,932 | 12.6 |
| South | 64.0 | 1,783 | 7.7 |
| Pre-poll | 63.5 | 12,982 | 55.8 |
| Other votes | 62.1 | 5,572 | 23.9 |
Election results in Dawesville at the 2021 WA state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party, the Greens and the Nationals.
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