Scarborough

Margin: Liberal 17.3%
Region: North Metropolitan
Federal: Curtin (66%); Stirling (34%)

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

Candidates in ballot paper order

LIZA HARVEY Liberal (top) DAN BAILEY Micro Business Party STEVEN PYNT Julie Matheson for WA KEVIN HOST Australian Christians TONY WALKER Labor (centre) MARGARET DODD One Nation JUDITH CULLITY Greens (bottom)

Held for the Liberals by Deputy Premier Liza Harvey, Scarborough takes its name from a coastal suburb 15 kilometres north-west of central Perth, and further encompasses Doubleview, Innaloo and the Osborne Park light industrial area immediately to the east, along with Trigg and the southern parts of Karrinyup and Gwelup immediately to the north. Innaloo in particular is fairly strong for Labor, but this is more than cancelled out by the Liberal lean in the coastal suburbs.

Scarborough first existed as an electorate from 1974 until 1996, when it was renamed Innaloo. The Liberals held the seat from 1974 to 1983 and from 1989 to 2001, meaning the only interruption to its bellwether status was their victory a term ahead of time in 1989. John Quigley won Innaloo for Labor as part of the 2001 election victory, then moved to the new seat of Mindarie (now Butler) when Innaloo was abolished at the 2005 election, and its territory divided between Churchlands in the south and Carine in the north.

The current incarnation of the seat was created with the one-vote one-value redistribution in 2008, which required the creation of an extra electorate among those lined up along the northern coastal corridor. The new seat had a notional Liberal margin of 2.4%, which has since been inflated by successive swings of 2.6% and 12.1%. It has been held through this time by Liza Harvey, former owner of a tackle shop and an advocate of development with respect to the locally contentious high-rise issues.

Harvey was promoted to parliamentary secretary in December 2010 and then to the ministry as Police and Road Safety Minister in June 2012, with her workload further supplemented by small business from March to August 2013, tourism from August 2013 to December 2014, and training henceforth. She was elected unopposed to the deputy leadership when Kim Hames stood aside pending his looming retirement in February 2016, and is being promoted as the heir apparent to Colin Barnett.