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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Swan, Western Australia
Southern Perth: Belmont, Cannington, South Perth, Victoria Park
Sitting member: Steve Irons (Liberal), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 97,400
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 6.5%
2016 notional Liberal majority over Labor: 7.3%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Sarah Nielsen-Harvey
Australian Greens |
2. Steve Klomp
Australian Christians |
3. Tammy Solonec
Australian Labor Party |
4. Steve Irons
Liberal Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Swan has existed since Federation, but from 1901 to 1949 it was a rural seat based in the upper Swan valley and the Wheat Belt, with no connection
with the current seat. The seat was effectively re-created in 1949, based in the southern riverside suburbs, and in this form has always been a
highly marginal seat, combining as it does strong Liberal areas in South Perth with Labor strongholds such as Bentley and Victoria Park. Swan has
a low level of median family income and a fairly high level of people born in non English speaking countries. It also has a very low level of
families with dependent children, so it is not a mortgage belt seat.
Kim Beazley, later Deputy Prime Minister, won Swan for Labor in 1980. During the 1980s he built up a strong position in the seat, but was nearly
defeated in 1993 and moved to Brand in 1996, leaving Swan to fall to the Liberals. Kim Wilkie regained the seat for Labor in 1998, but inexplicably
lost it to the Liberals in 2007, the year of Labor's return to office.
Steve Irons, Liberal MP for Swan since 2007, was a company director before his election. The Labor candidate in 2016 will be Tammy Solonec, an
Indigenous lawyer and until recently a Green.
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