The Electoral district of Mindarie is a Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

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 electorate

Electoral districts of Western Australia

The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as electorates or seats....

 in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

. The district is named for the outer northern Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 suburb of Mindarie

Mindarie, Western Australia

Mindarie is an outer coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, considered to be northernmost of Perth's affluent beachside suburbs. It is located 36 kilometres north of Perth's central business district via Marmion Avenue and is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area.After being...

 which falls within its borders.

History

Mindarie was created at the 2003 redistribution out of parts of Wanneroo

Electoral district of Wanneroo

-External links:* ABC Election Profiles: * WAEC District Maps:...

 and Joondalup

Electoral district of Joondalup

Joondalup is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.The district is located in the northern suburbs of Perth.Joondalup has tended to be a marginal seat.-Geography:...

, accounting for significant population growth in the City of Wanneroo which had pulled the Wanneroo district northwards and eastwards in order to keep all seats at a roughly equal population. The seat was first contested in the 2005 election

Western Australian state election, 2005

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 February 2005 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

 at which Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 member John Quigley

John Quigley (politician)

John Robert Quigley LL.B. is an Australian barrister, solicitor and politician in Western Australia. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he has served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from the 2001 election until the present, initially as the Member for Innaloo until...

, who had formerly represented the abolished inner-northern seat of Innaloo

Electoral district of Innaloo

Innaloo was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1996 to 2005.The district was based in the northern suburbs of Perth, and named for the suburb of Innaloo...

, was successful.

Geography

Mindarie presently stretches from the coastal boundary of the City of Wanneroo to its northern and eastern limits, and comprises 547 km² of land otherwise bounded in the south by the Kinross

Kinross, Western Australia

Kinross is a small suburb in the City of Joondalup located in the northern suburbs of Perth, Australia. Kinross was constructed around 1992-3 in various stages. It is bordered by Neerabup National Park, and is the City of Joondalup's most northerly suburb....

 east-west boundary fence, Burns Beach Road

Burns Beach Road, Perth

Burns Beach Road is a major road in Perth, Australia. The road provides the only road route to the small coastal village in Burns Beach.The road begins at a large roundabout joining with Joondalup Drive, and ends just outside of the coastal village at Burns Beach, where the road continues into the...

, Wanneroo Road

Wanneroo Road

Wanneroo Road is an important arterial road in Perth, Australia. It is about 75 kilometres long. It links Perth with the City of Wanneroo, and the Towns of Yanchep and Lancelin...

, Flynn Drive, Old Yanchep Road and Neaves Road. Its boundaries include the outposts of Yanchep

Yanchep, Western Australia

Yanchep is an outer coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 56 kilometres north of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area. It was built by entrepreneur Alan Bond in the 1970s for the 1977 America's Cup...

 and Two Rocks

Two Rocks, Western Australia

Two Rocks is an outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 61 kilometres north of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local authority and straddles the northernmost boundaries of the Perth metropolitan area....

, the populated suburbs of Butler

Butler, Western Australia

Butler is an outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 41 kilometres north of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area...

, Jindalee

Jindalee, Western Australia

Jindalee is an outer coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located approximately north of Perth's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Wanneroo.-Geography:...

, Clarkson

Clarkson, Western Australia

Clarkson is an outer northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 34 kilometres north of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area. While mostly a residential area, it also functions as a town centre, serving many surrounding areas with a...

, Merriwa

Merriwa, Western Australia

Merriwa is an outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 36 kilometres north of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local authority...

, Mindarie

Mindarie, Western Australia

Mindarie is an outer coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, considered to be northernmost of Perth's affluent beachside suburbs. It is located 36 kilometres north of Perth's central business district via Marmion Avenue and is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area.After being...

, Quinns Rocks and Ridgewood

Ridgewood, Western Australia

Ridgewood is an outer suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 37 kilometres north of Perth's central business district. Is is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area.-Geography:...

, the semi-rural localities of Carabooda

Carabooda, Western Australia

Carabooda is a rural locality in outer northern Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wanneroo.The region gives its name to a distinctive form of building limestone called Carabooda limestone...

, Neerabup

Neerabup, Western Australia

Neerabup is a rural locality in Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wanneroo.-History:Prior to European settlement, Noongar Aboriginal people had lived in the area for more than 40,000 years, taking advantage of the abundant food and water around the...

, Nowergup

Nowergup, Western Australia

Nowergup is a rural locality about north of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wanneroo.-History:The suburb of Nowergup takes its name from Lake Nowergup...

, and the unpopulated localities of Alkimos

Alkimos, Western Australia

Alkimos is an unpopulated coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located north-northwest of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area....

, Eglinton

Eglinton, Western Australia

Eglinton is an unpopulated locality in the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located approximately north of Perth's central business district on the Indian Ocean...

, Pinjar

Pinjar, Western Australia

Pinjar is a rural locality in Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wanneroo.-History:The suburb of Pinjar is named after the large swampy lake of this name located north east of Wanneroo. The lake name is shown on government plans from 1868, and the name is of Noongar...

 and Tamala Park

Tamala Park, Western Australia

Tamala Park is an unpopulated locality in Perth, Western Australia. It sits on the border between the City of Wanneroo and the City of Joondalup local authorities, and separates the Clarkson-Butler region from the suburbs of Joondalup.-History:...

.

The 2007 redistribution, which took effect at the 2008 election

Western Australian state election, 2008

A general election was held in the state of Western Australia on Saturday 6 September 2008 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council...

, radically changed the boundaries—the seat then only included the southern part of Quinns Rocks and all of Clarkson, Mindarie and Tamala Park of the region now included within it. The rest of the seat, within the City of Joondalup

City of Joondalup

The City of Joondalup is a council and Local Government Area with City status in Perth, Western Australia. It covers the metropolitan Perth city of Joondalup in its entirety, as well as the town centres of Hillarys and Warwick....

, included the suburbs of Burns Beach

Burns Beach, Western Australia

Burns Beach is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located north of Perth's central business district at the northern fringe of the City of Joondalup...

, Currambine

Currambine, Western Australia

Currambine is a northern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located 30 km north of Perth's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Joondalup. It contains the Currambine Market Place shopping centre and cinema complex.-History:Currambine...

, Iluka

Iluka, Western Australia

Iluka is a far northern, fast-developing beachside suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Joondalup. The popular surfing spots in the region include Mullaloo Beach, Sorrento Beach and Hillarys Beach...

, Kinross

Kinross, Western Australia

Kinross is a small suburb in the City of Joondalup located in the northern suburbs of Perth, Australia. Kinross was constructed around 1992-3 in various stages. It is bordered by Neerabup National Park, and is the City of Joondalup's most northerly suburb....

, Ocean Reef

Ocean Reef, Western Australia

Ocean Reef is a suburb in northern Perth, Western Australia. It is located within the City of Joondalup. The name was coined by developers in the 1970s from the line of a reef visible several kilometres offshore...

 and a small northwestern section of Mullaloo

Mullaloo, Western Australia

Mullaloo is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Joondalup.-History:Mullaloo is named after an Aboriginal word, believed to mean "place of the rat kangaroo". It was first recorded in 1919 as Moolalloo Point, but the spelling was later changed to Mullaloo...

. Those regions are now in the new seat of Ocean Reef

Electoral district of Ocean Reef

The Electoral district of Ocean Reef is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. The district is named for the outer northern Perth suburb of Ocean Reef which falls within its borders.-History:...

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Members for Mindarie

Member		Party	Term
	John Quigley John Quigley (politician) John Robert Quigley LL.B. is an Australian barrister, solicitor and politician in Western Australia. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he has served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from the 2001 election until the present, initially as the Member for Innaloo until...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	2005–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)