Mandurah

Margin: Labor 7.7%
Region: South West
Federal: Canning

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

Candidates in ballot paper order

SEB CARRIE-WILSON Flux the System LYNNE ROWLANDS Liberal (centre) DOUG SHAW One Nation (bottom) PAUL BATSIOUDIS Micro Business Party JASON TURNER Nationals DAVID TEMPLEMAN Labor (top) JODIE MOFFAT Greens

Mandurah is a coastal satellite city 75 kilometres to the south of Perth, which is divided electorally between Mandurah in the north and Liberal-held Dawesville in the south. The former accounts for all the territory north of the mouth of the Mandurah Estuary mouth, excepting the suburb of Dudley Park. John Read won the seat for Labor when it was carved out of the electorate of Murray in 1983, but was ousted by Liberal candidate Roger Nicholls when the tide turned in 1989. The current member, David Templeman, unseated Nicholls when Labor came to power in 2001, his 7.9% swing assisted in no small part by preferences from One Nation, who polled 12.6%.

David Templeman is associated with the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union sub-faction of the Left, and was elevated to the front bench after its numbers helped deliver the premiership to Alan Carpenter in January 2006. He served in the children's services portfolio until the 2008 election defeat, after which he declined to nominate for a position in shadow cabinet. Mandurah has been transformed into a reasonably safe Labor seat on his watch, presumably reflecting the success of the Gallop-Carpenter government's flagship Perth to Mandurah rail project.

The Liberals have endorsed local small business owner Lynne Rowlands after their initial pick, David Forbes, withdrew amid controversy over derogratory remarks about women on Twitter.