Moore

Margin: Nationals 5.9% versus Liberal
Region: Agricultural
Federal: Durack (60%); Pearce (40%)

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

Candidates in ballot paper order

WES PORTER Australian Christians JAMES JOSEPH KELLY One Nation (bottom) ROSS WILLIAMSON Shooters Fishers and Farmers PETER LEAM Greens DARREN SLYNS Liberal (top) SHANE LOVE Nationals (centre) BARNI NORTON Labor

Covering the coast for 550 kilometres beyond the northern boundary of the Perth metropolitan area, Moore has been a safe conservative seat through an uninterrupted history going back to 1950. It encompasses the coastal towns of Lancelin and Jurien Bay in the south and Kalbarri in the north, but excludes an area between the two that is accommodated by Geraldton. Further inland, it encompasses Gingin, Bindoon and Toodyay to the north of Perth, along with rural centres from Dalwallinu north to Mullewa.

Moore was in Liberal hands from 1985, when Bert Crane switched parties, until the 2008 election, but has otherwise been held by the National/Country party throughout its existence. The one-vote one-value redistribution in 2008 transformed it by abolishing its long-standing northern neighbour, Greenough, from which it absorbed what is now the electorate's northern half. Greenough was held by the Liberals from 1945, when future Premier David Brand won it from Labor, until 2005, when Grant Woodhams unseated Jamie Edwards to take the seat for the Nationals. Its abolition set up a contest in Moore between Woodhams and Gary Snook, who had held Moore for the Liberals since 2005. Snook outpolled Woodhams by 40.5% to 32.3% on the primary vote, but a heavy flow of Labor preferences delivered Woodhams a winning margin of 3.1%.

Woodhams' retirement at the 2013 election resulted in another competitive race in which the Liberals again outpolled the Nationals on the primary vote, by 39.0% to 37.1%, before preferences again decided the result in favour of the Nationals, this time by 5.9%. The seat has since been held by Shane Love, who served nine years as Dandaragan Shire president and owns a farm in Badgingarra. Love won promotion to parliamentary secretary in the regional development and lands portfolios in December 2014.