- Electoral district of Maylands
Infobox Australian Electorate
name = Maylands
state = wa
caption =
lifespan = 1930–present
mp = Lisa Baker
mp-party = Labor
namesake = Maylands
area = 23.3
class = East MetropolitanThe Electoral district of Maylands is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of
Western Australia . Maylands is named for the inner northeastern Perth suburb of Maylands which falls within its borders.Formerly a fairly safe Liberal seat, it has been safe for the
Australian Labor Party since a redistribution prior to the 1968 election. In addition to incorporating old Labor areas, demographic change in the former Liberal strongholds of Maylands and Inglewood as young, educated and largely single working people moved in to replace an older, more affluent population has ensured the Labor vote over several decades.History
Maylands was created at the 1929 redistribution, at which five new metropolitan electorates were created to replace former Goldfields seats in Parliament. [cite book|title=Statutes of Western Australia, 1929-1930|author=
Government of Western Australia |year=1930|pages=1-56|chapter=Redistribution of Seats Act (No 1 of 1929) Given assent on 15 April 1929.] Its first member was elected at the 1930 election, giving an eighth and final term in Parliament to former PremierJohn Scaddan , sitting as a Nationalist member. He was defeated at the 1933 election by a Labor candidate, but it reverted to an Independent Nationalist (later Liberal),Harry Shearn , who held the seat until his death on 25 January 1951. A redistribution in 1955 brought in suburbs in the Bayswater area, making the seat notionally Labor, andJohn Toms won the seat for Labor at the 1956 election, whileEdward Oldfield , the previous member, resigned from the Liberal Party and held neighbouring Mount Lawley as an independent. After the 1961 redistribution, Toms elected to contest the new seat of Bayswater at the 1962 election, whilst Oldfield, who had since joined the Labor party, won Maylands, but narrowly lost it three years later. Another redistribution in 1966 changed the seat's status from marginal Liberal to safe Labor, and sinceJohn Harman 's win at the 1968 election, it has been held by the Labor Party. [cite book|last=Black|first=David|coauthors=Prescott, Valerie|title=Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996|year=1997|publisher=Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission|location=Perth|id=ISBN 0-7309-8409-5|pages=183-188] Harman ended his 18-year political career with a three-year stint asSpeaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly , and on his retirement, North Province MLCPeter Dowding moved from the Upper House into the seat. He became Premier of Western Australia on 25 February 1988 uponBrian Burke 's retirement from politics. As theWA Inc scandal that came to be synonymous with his predecessor first became public knowledge then came to dominate political discourse in the State,Carmen Lawrence became Premier on 12 February 1990, and he resigned from parliament two months later. At the resulting by-election,Judy Edwards , who later served as Environment Minister in the Gallop Cabinet, was successful in retaining the seat for Labor.Geography
Maylands is an odd-shaped seat, bounded by the Swan River to the south,
Tonkin Highway to the east, Walter Road to the north and northwest, and Eighth and Central Avenue to the southwest. It includes all of Bedford and Embleton, almost all of Bayswater, Maylands and Inglewood, and small sections of Morley and Dianella. The Bayswater industrial area andCentro Galleria shopping centre are within the electorate's boundaries. [cite web|url=http://www.boundarieswa.com/2007/Final-Boundaries/East-Metropolitan/Maylands/|title=2007 Electoral Distribution - Final Boundaries - East Metropolitan - Maylands|author=Western Australian Electoral Commission|date=29 October 2007|accessdate=2008-08-05]The 2007 redistribution, which took effect at the 2008 election, resulted in the seat losing a section of Morley and Dianella between Morley Drive and Walter Road, as well as a small section of western Maylands along
Guildford Road . [cite web|url=http://www.boundarieswa.com/2003/Boundaries/South-Metropolitan/Riverton/|title=2003 Electoral Distribution - Final Boundaries - South Metropolitan - Riverton|author=Western Australian Electoral Commission|date=4 August 2003|accessdate=2008-08-05]Members for Maylands
Results
Election box begin
title=State Election 2005: MaylandsElection box candidate AU party
candidate =Judy Edwards
party = Labor
votes = 12,668
percentage = 53.88
change = +3.27Election box candidate AU party
candidate = Roslyn Webb
party = Liberal
votes = 6,464
percentage = 27.49
change = –0.42Election box candidate AU party
candidate = James Rayner
party = Greens
votes = 2,646
percentage = 11.25
change = +2.83Election box candidate AU party
candidate = Dunstan Hartley
party = Christian Democrats
votes = 921
percentage = 3.92
change = +3.92Election box candidate AU party
candidate = Judy Joyce
party = Family First
votes = 812
percentage = 3.45
change = +3.45Election box formal
votes = 23,511
percentage = 94.02
change = –0.23Election box informal
votes = 1,496
percentage = 5.98
change = +0.23Election box turnout
votes = 25,007
percentage = 89.60
change = +0.20Election box candidate AU party
party = Labor
candidate =Judy Edwards
votes = 15,626
percentage = 66.52
change = +2.04Election box candidate AU party
party = Liberal
candidate = Roslyn Webb
votes = 7,863
percentage = 33.48
change = –2.04Election box hold AU party
winner = Labor
swing = +2.04References
External links
* [http://www.abc.net.au/elections/wa/2005/guide/mayl.htm Electorate Profile] (Antony Green, ABC)
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