ALP 24.3%
Incumbent MP
David Templeman, since 2001.
- Geography
- Redistribution
- History
- Candidate summary
- Assessment
- 2021 results
- Booth breakdown
- Results maps
Geography
Southern coastal fringe of Perth. The seat of Mandurah covers northern parts of the Mandurah council area, including the suburbs of Mandurah, Meadow Springs, Dudley Park, Parklands, Greenfields, Silver Sands, San Remo and Barragup.
Redistribution
Mandurah shifted south, gaining Dudley Park from Dawesville and lost Lakelands and Madora Bay to Secret Harbour. These changes cut the Labor margin from 25.2% to 24.3%.
History
The seat of Mandurah has existed since 1983. The seat has swung back and forth between the parties, with a Liberal period from 1989 to 2001 dividing two periods of Labor holding the seat.
Mandurah was first won in 1983 by Labor candidate John Read. Read was re-elected in 1986.
Liberal candidate Roger Nicholls defeated Read in 1989. Nicholls joined the Liberal frontbench in 1990 and after winning a second term in 1993 he became a minister in the new government. He stepped down from the ministry in 1997.
Labor’s David Templeman defeated Nicholls in 2001. Templeman has been re-elected five times.
Candidates
Sitting Labor MP David Templeman is not running for re-election.
- Lenka Pesch (Australian Christians)
- Rhys Williams (Labor)
Assessment
While Labor has held Mandurah continuously since 2001, it is not amongst the safest Labor seats. Mandurah is Labor’s 28th-safest seat, so if this seat is in play it probably means that the statewide election will be close.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| David Templeman | Labor | 16,776 | 68.7 | +12.0 | 67.6 |
| Ryan Burns | Liberal | 4,875 | 20.0 | -1.7 | 20.8 |
| Xanthe Turner | Greens | 726 | 3.0 | -1.8 | 3.0 |
| Ian Blevin | Shooters, Fishers & Farmers | 531 | 2.2 | +2.1 | 2.1 |
| Rodney Beaton | Legalise Cannabis | 412 | 1.7 | +1.7 | 1.8 |
| Haydn Regterschot | One Nation | 388 | 1.6 | -11.2 | 1.6 |
| Samy Spinola | No Mandatory Vaccination | 214 | 0.9 | +0.9 | 0.8 |
| Gavin Farbey | Independent | 177 | 0.7 | +0.7 | 0.7 |
| Cons Ortheil | Nationals | 144 | 0.6 | -1.4 | 0.6 |
| Katherine Summers | Sustainable Australia | 117 | 0.5 | +0.5 | 0.6 |
| Marius Timis | WAxit | 60 | 0.2 | -0.4 | 0.2 |
| Others | 0.0 | ||||
| Informal | 1,386 | 5.4 |
2021 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| David Templeman | Labor | 18,368 | 75.2 | +7.3 | 74.3 |
| Ryan Burns | Liberal | 6,049 | 24.8 | -7.3 | 25.7 |
Polling places have been split into three parts: north, south-east and south-west.
Labor’s two-party-preferred vote ranged from 73.2% in the north to 76.8% in the south-east.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| South-West | 75.2 | 2,044 | 8.8 |
| South-East | 76.8 | 1,714 | 7.4 |
| North | 73.2 | 1,506 | 6.5 |
| Pre-poll | 74.2 | 13,189 | 56.9 |
| Other votes | 73.5 | 4,740 | 20.4 |
Election results in Mandurah 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.
David Templeman MP for Mandurah is now the 15th Labor MP in the WA state parliament to announce his retirement at the 2025 election. That’s nearly 1/5th (10) of their lower house delegation and 1/4th (5) of their upper house members. And of course they had McGowan’s resignation mid-term as well. It’s a good opportunity for the government to renew itself with some fresh faces and a vision for the future, e.g. preselecting younger and diverse candidates where reasonable/logical.
@Laine jeez! A fifth and a quarter is huge!
15 Labor MPs are retiring, but so are three Liberals and three Nationals. That’s 21 MPs!
12 are from the Legislative Assembly, which has 59 seats, so 20.3% of MLAs are retiring. The other nine are from the Legislative Council, so 24.3% of MLCs are retiring. The Parliament of Western Australia has 96 seats, so a total of 21.9% of MPs are retiring. And that doesn’t even include the two by-elections in North West. Central and Rockingham.
Could this be a record for most retiring MPs in a sitting Australian parliament, or at least the highest percentage of MPs retiring in a sitting Australian parliament?