ALP 9.8%
Incumbent MP
Stuart Aubrey, since 2021.
- Geography
- Redistribution
- History
- Candidate summary
- Assessment
- 2021 results
- Booth breakdown
- Results maps
Geography
Northern Perth. Scarborough covers the suburbs of Scarborough, Doubleview, Karrinyup, Trigg and parts of Innaloo, near the coast in the inner north of Perth. The entire seat is contained in the City of Stirling.
Redistribution
Changes were made to the northern and southern boundaries of Scarborough. Scarborough gained Karrinyup from Carine, and losing the remainder of North Beach and part of Gwelup to Carine. Scarborough also lost Osborne Park and part of Innaloo to Churchlands, and gained the remainder of Doubleview from Churchlands.
History
Scarborough was created in its current form at the 2008 election. A seat named Scarborough previously existed as a marginal seat from 1974 to 1996.
The previous seat was held by the Liberals from 1974 to 1983, then the ALP from 1983 to 1989, and again by the Liberal Party from 1989 to 1996.
The new seat was created with a notional Liberal margin of 2.6%. Liberal candidate Liza Harvey was elected with a 2.6% swing. Harvey was elevated to the ministry in 2012. She was re-elected in 2013, and became deputy premier in February 2016.
Harvey was re-elected in Scarborough in 2017, but her party was tipped out of office. She served as Liberal leader from June 2019 to November 2020.
Harvey lost her seat in 2021 to Labor candidate Stuart Aubrey.
Assessment
If the Liberal Party experiences any kind of return to normality, they should win here.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Stuart Aubrey | Labor | 12,750 | 50.3 | +20.7 | 49.4 |
| Liza Harvey | Liberal | 8,808 | 34.7 | -13.0 | 35.4 |
| SP Becker | Greens | 2,331 | 9.2 | -4.8 | 9.7 |
| Vanya Markovina | No Mandatory Vaccination | 498 | 2.0 | +2.0 | 2.1 |
| Dave Vos | Independent | 337 | 1.3 | +1.3 | 1.1 |
| Troy Coward | Western Australia Party | 300 | 1.2 | FALSE | 1.0 |
| Daniel Bridgewater | Liberals for Climate | 213 | 0.8 | +0.8 | 0.6 |
| Johnny Boccardi | WAxit | 125 | 0.5 | -0.9 | 0.6 |
| Others | 0.1 | ||||
| Informal | 771 | 3.0 |
2021 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Stuart Aubrey | Labor | 15,315 | 60.4 | +16.1 | 59.8 |
| Liza Harvey | Liberal | 10,039 | 39.6 | -16.1 | 40.2 |
Polling places have been split into three parts: east, north-west and south-west.
Labor’s two-party-preferred vote ranged from 57.5% in the north-west to 62.2% in the east.
The Greens came third, with a primary vote ranging from 9.9% in the east to 12.3% in the south-west.
| Voter group | GRN prim % | ALPÂ 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North-West | 11.7 | 57.5 | 4,906 | 19.6 |
| South-West | 12.3 | 61.4 | 3,111 | 12.4 |
| East | 9.9 | 62.2 | 3,018 | 12.0 |
| Pre-poll | 7.5 | 60.0 | 8,023 | 32.0 |
| Other votes | 9.4 | 59.3 | 6,033 | 24.0 |
Election results in Scarborough at the 2021 WA state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and the Greens.
another LIB gain