Division of Pearce

Pearce Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Pearce (green) in Western Australia, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1989
MP	Christian Porter
Party	Liberal
Namesake	George Pearce
Electors	104,451 (2016)
Area	13,250 km^2 (5,115.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Pearce is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. A hybrid urban-rural seat located to the east and north of Perth, it takes in the far northern suburbs of the metropolitan area before fanning inland from the Indian Ocean to take in portions of the Wheatbelt southeast, east and northeast of the capital.

It includes the Perth suburbs of Mindarie, Ellenbrook and Middle Swan and the 'Avon Arc' Wheatbelt towns of Gingin, Northam, York, Toodyay, Chittering and Beverley.

The division was named after Rt Hon Sir George Pearce, a founder of the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia, and the longest-serving member of the Australian Senate. The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 31 March 1989, and was first contested at the 1990 federal election. It has been held by the Liberal Party of Australia for its entire existence. For most of its first quarter-century, it was usually a reasonably safe Liberal seat.

On 12 June 2012, Western Australian state cabinet minister Christian Porter announced he would contest the federal seat of Pearce during the 2013 federal election due to the retirement of Judi Moylan. Porter retained the seat for the Liberal Party. In his bid for reelection in 2016, however, Porter suffered a five-point swing, making Pearce a marginal seat for the first time.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Fred Chaney	Liberal	1990–1993
	Judi Moylan	Liberal	1993–2013
	Christian Porter	Liberal	2013–present

Election results

Australian federal election, 2016: Pearce^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Christian Porter	39,551	45.44	−1.65
	Labor	Thomas French	29,809	34.25	+8.08
	Greens	Lee-Anne Miles	9,543	10.96	+1.13
	National	Maddison Simmonds	4,080	4.69	+0.14
	Rise Up Australia	Taffy Samuriwo-Vuntarde	4,049	4.65	+3.72
Total formal votes			87,032	95.45	+1.18
Informal votes			4,150	4.55	−1.18
Turnout			91,182	87.30	+5.85
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Christian Porter	46,672	53.63	−5.68
	Labor	Thomas French	40,360	46.37	+5.68
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.68

References

1. Pearce, WA, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

• Division of Pearce - Australian Electoral Commission

Coordinates: 31°39′18″S 116°17′56″E / 31.655°S 116.299°E