ALP 27.9%
Incumbent MP
Amber-Jade Sanderson, since 2017.
- Geography
- Redistribution
- History
- Candidate summary
- Assessment
- 2021 results
- Booth breakdown
- Results maps
Geography
North-eastern Perth. Morley is split evenly between parts of Bayswater and Stirling local government areas. The seat covers the suburbs of Nollamara, Noranda, Dianella and Morley.
Redistribution
Morley lost a strip of territory east of the Tonkin Highway to Bassendean and gained the remainder of Dianella from Mirrabooka.
History
The seat of Morley in its current form was created at the 2008 election. A previous seat using the name Morley existed from 1974 until 1996, although the seat was renamed as Morley-Swan from 1983 to 1989.
The previous seat was won by the ALP at every election from 1974 to 1993. Clive Brown won the seat in 1993, and moved to the new seat of Bassendean in 1996.
Morley was recreated in the 2008 redistribution, with the majority of the seat coming from the abolished seat of Ballajura.
John D’Orazio had held Ballajura since 2001 for the ALP. He served briefly as a minister from 2005 to 2006. He was forced to resign due to driving offences, and he became an independent.
D’Orazio was restored to the ALP in 2008, but resigned after losing preselection in Morley.
D’Orazio ran as an independent against the ALP’s Reece Whitby and the Liberal Party’s Ian Britza.
Whitby polled the highest primary vote, but D’Orazio directed preferences to Britza, giving the seat to the Liberal Party. Britza was re-elected in 2013.
Britza was defeated in 2017 by Labor’s Amber-Jade Sanderson, and Sanderson was re-elected in 2021.
- Kaelin Abrahams (Greens)
- Aswath Chavittupara (Liberal)
- Giulio Di Somma (Australian Christians)
- Amber-Jade Sanderson (Labor)
Assessment
Morley is a reasonably safe Labor seat. They would only lose this seat at a particularly low time, as in 2008 and 2013.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Amber-Jade Sanderson | Labor | 17,447 | 70.4 | +18.0 | 69.3 |
| Jim Seth | Liberal | 3,931 | 15.9 | -15.7 | 16.6 |
| Thomas Marcinkowski | Greens | 1,525 | 6.2 | -3.2 | 6.4 |
| Alan Wells | Australian Christians | 815 | 3.3 | +0.5 | 3.1 |
| Julian Scully | One Nation | 452 | 1.8 | +1.8 | 2.0 |
| Rhonda Kerslake | No Mandatory Vaccination | 396 | 1.6 | +1.6 | 1.6 |
| Aman Singh | WAxit | 217 | 0.9 | -0.8 | 0.8 |
| Others | 0.1 | ||||
| Informal | 1,176 | 4.5 |
2021 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Amber-Jade Sanderson | Labor | 19,458 | 78.6 | +16.2 | 77.9 |
| Jim Seth | Liberal | 5,311 | 21.4 | -16.2 | 22.1 |
Polling places have been split into three parts: central, east and west
Labor’s two-party-preferred vote ranged from 74.8% in the centre to 79.9% in the west.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| Central | 74.8 | 3,400 | 14.0 |
| West | 79.9 | 3,032 | 12.5 |
| East | 79.6 | 2,992 | 12.3 |
| Pre-poll | 78.3 | 8,908 | 36.7 |
| Other votes | 77.2 | 5,955 | 24.5 |
Election results in Morley at the 2021 WA state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and the Greens.