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Perth

Perth is a federal electorate in Western Australia, held by Patrick Gorman of the Australian Labor Party since the 2025 election, by a margin of 16.51 points — a safe seat.

Member for Perth

Patrick Gorman

Australian Labor Party

Their voting record and expenses →

The 2025 result

Final two candidates after preferences were distributed, from the election held 3 May 2025.

  • Patrick GORMANAustralian Labor Party66.51%66,350 votes
  • Susanna PANAIALiberal33.49%33,406 votes
Margin
16.51%
Safe
Two-party-preferred swing
+2.09%
to Australian Labor Party
Turnout
89.33%
114,458 enrolled

First preferences in 2025

How the seat voted before preferences were distributed. The Coalition is counted as one figure across its four registrations, and the Greens across both of theirs — in Victoria they contest as GVIC and elsewhere as GRN, which read as two separate minor parties if left unmerged.

  • Labor43.1%
  • Coalition26.1%
  • Greens24.5%
  • One Nation6.3%

Suburbs in Perth

25 suburbs and localities have residents in this electorate. 6of them also have residents in another one — the percentage is the share of that area’s Census population living here.

  • Perth (WA)
  • Maylands (WA)
  • Dianella 54%
  • Bayswater (WA) 84%
  • Yokine
  • East Perth
  • Mount Lawley
  • North Perth
  • Mount Hawthorn
  • Tuart Hill
  • Morley 33%
  • West Perth
  • Inglewood (WA)
  • Bedford
  • Joondanna
  • Osborne Park 100%
  • Stirling (WA) 42%
  • Leederville
  • Embleton
  • Menora
  • Highgate (WA)
  • Coolbinia
  • Northbridge (WA)
  • Balcatta 2%
  • Kings Park (WA)

Postcodes in Perth

16 postcodes have residents in this electorate. 7of them also have residents in another one — the percentage is the share of that area’s Census population living here.

  • 6060
  • 6050
  • 6000
  • 6051
  • 6059 54%
  • 6053 84%
  • 6004
  • 6052
  • 6062 32%
  • 6006
  • 6016 76%
  • 6005
  • 6017 100%
  • 6021 21%
  • 6007 46%
  • 6003

Where this comes from

  • Results, margins and turnout are the AEC’s published 2025figures. The margin is derived — the winner’s two-candidate-preferred share minus 50 — and the seat status is the AEC’s own classification.
  • Suburbs and postcodes come from 2021 Census mesh blocks matched to CED_2025 boundaries, weighted by resident population rather than by area — otherwise a large, largely uninhabited postcode is assigned to whichever division holds the most empty land.
  • These are an approximation of the AEC’s legal boundaries, so close to a boundary they can differ. To confirm where you are enrolled, check the AEC.

Australian Statistical Geography Standard Edition 3 allocation files and 2021 Census Mesh Block Counts, © Australian Bureau of Statistics.