ALP 21.5%
Incumbent MP
Divina D’Anna, since 2021.
- Geography
- Redistribution
- History
- Candidate summary
- Assessment
- 2021 results
- Booth breakdown
- Results maps
Geography
Far north Western Australia. Kimberley covers the Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek and Wyndham-East Kimberley council areas, along with sparsely-populated parts of the East Pilbara, Wiluna and Ngaanyatjarraku council areas. The seat includes the northern centres of Broome and Derby.
Redistribution
Kimberley expanded to take in sparsely-populated parts of Pilbara and North West Central to the south of the seat’s existing territory. These areas cover just over 100 voters.
Kimberley has existed as a seat since 1904. The seat has been dominated by the ALP for most of the twentieth century, but Kimberley has never been a very safe seat.
The ALP won the seat off the Country Party in 1924. Two successive Labor MPs held the seat for the next 44 years. In 1968, the Liberal Party’s Alan Ridge won the seat.
In 1980, the Labor Party’s Ernie Bridge was elected. Bridge became the first Aboriginal cabinet minister in Australia in 1986, and served in the ministry until Labor lost power in 1993.
In 1996, Bridge resigned from the ALP, and ran for re-election as an independent. The ALP chose to not run a candidate against him and he won one more term before retiring in 2001.
The ALP’s Carol Martin won the seat back for Labor in 2001. She was re-elected in 2005 and 2008.
Martin retired in 2013 and she was succeeded by Labor candidate Josie Farrer. Farrer won a second term in 2017.
Farrer retired in 2021, and Labor’s Divina D’Anna won the seat.
- Divina D’Anna (Labor)
- Zoe Golding (Australian Christians)
- Millie Hills (Nationals)
Assessment
Kimberley would be a key seat in a close election. Kimberley is Labor’s 33rd-best seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Divina D’Anna | Labor | 5,747 | 53.9 | +9.0 | 53.9 |
| Geoff Haerewa | Liberal | 2,187 | 20.5 | +3.2 | 20.5 |
| Naomi Pigram | Greens | 1,601 | 15.0 | +5.8 | 15.0 |
| Millie Hills | Nationals | 658 | 6.2 | -10.1 | 6.2 |
| Roger Modolo | One Nation | 221 | 2.1 | -6.0 | 2.1 |
| Kai Jones | Independent | 98 | 0.9 | -1.0 | 0.9 |
| A Herman | No Mandatory Vaccination | 85 | 0.8 | +0.8 | 0.8 |
| Karl Neil Fehlauer | Western Australia Party | 68 | 0.6 | +0.6 | 0.6 |
| Informal | 410 | 3.7 |
2021 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Divina D’Anna | Labor | 7,618 | 71.5 | +8.3 | 71.5 |
| Geoff Haerewa | Liberal | 3,044 | 28.5 | -8.3 | 28.5 |
Polling places have been split into three parts. Polling places in the Broome area have been grouped together, and the remainder of the seat has been split into north and south.
Labor’s two-party-preferred vote ranged from 64.9% in the south to 76.8% in Broome.
The Greens came third, with a primary vote of just under 10% in the rural parts and 21.4% in Broome.
| Voter group | GRN prim % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| Broome | 21.4 | 76.8 | 1,740 | 16.3 |
| North | 9.3 | 69.1 | 852 | 8.0 |
| South | 9.9 | 64.9 | 716 | 6.7 |
| Pre-poll | 16.7 | 68.3 | 5,124 | 48.0 |
| Other votes | 10.0 | 77.6 | 2,233 | 20.9 |
Election results in Kimberley 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.
Labor should retain but the primary should be fascinating – a high Green vote on environmental issues, very much the Fremantle of North with being Broome being the main town in the seat. A Nationals candidate or Independent would also do well.
@CG Broome has always had a three-way contest which results in Labor winning on Greens preferencing despite the Liberals or Nationals finishing first. No idea why because I didn’t notice it being really hippie when I went there.
Tourism operators in the Kimberley & some indigenous groups source of the Green vote in Broome
@np its more of a 4 way contest traditionally. and labor have finished first for the nearly 50 years since about 1977. i think the vote can vary when you have a lot of FIFO and farm workers moving in and out of the district.
@John yeah four-way is probably better terminology. I forgot about the fact that the Liberals and Nationals field candidates in the same seats in WA.
It’s four-way with Labor benefiting from Greens preferences and the Liberals benefiting from Nationals preferences.
kimberley is just gonna keep getting bigger and bigger due to LDA and the fact perth is growing very soon so i imagine pilbara will shrink to just port hedland