Kingsley

Margin: Liberal 14.0%
Region: North Metropolitan
Federal: Moore (60%); Cowan (40%)

RESULTS AT 2013 ELECTION
HISTORICAL TWO-PARTY RESULTS
PREVIOUS ELECTION RESULTS MAP

Candidates in ballot paper order

JOHN McNAIR Julie Matheson for WA DOMINIC STALTARI Micro Business Party ANDREA MITCHELL Liberal (top) GILBERT GRAEME BURNSIDE Australian Christians MATTHEW WARD Greens (bottom) JESSICA STOJKOVSKI Labor (centre)

Held for the Liberals for all but one term since its creation in 1989, Kingsley covers a band of suburbs in Perth's middle north, from Warwick north through Greenwood and Kingsley to Woodvale. The redistribution has added 1300 voters in eastern Warwick from Girrawheen, cutting 0.8% from the Liberal margin.

Kingsley was held comfortably for the Liberals at its first three elections by Cheryl Edwards, who served in the Court government as Attorney-General. It was then reduced to the marginal zone when the northern suburbs swung heavily to Labor with the Court government's defeat in 2001, cutting the margin from 10.2% to 2.9%. When Cheryl Edwardes retired in 2005, the Liberals preselected her husband, Colin Edwardes, which was widely rated as an unpopular move, although the 3.3% swing was not greatly higher than the northern suburbs average. Whatever the reason, the seat emerged as Labor's only gain of the election, with former Wanneroo councillor Judy Hughes securing a 0.8% winning margin.

The Liberals recovered the seat in 2008 on the back of a 4.8% swing, and it has since been held by Andrea Mitchell, who had been director of the Hopman Cup event in her capacity as president of Tennis West. Mitchell secured the seat with an emphatic swing of 10.2% in 2013, again reflecting a strong movement across the northern suburbs. She was promoted to parliamentary secretary after the election, and then to cabinet as Mental Health and Child Protection Minister in March 2016. Her Labor opponent at the coming election is Jess Stojkovska, a town planner.