Electoral district of Cockburn

Cockburn; Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
	Location of Cockburn (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
State	Western Australia
Dates current	1962–present
MP	Fran Logan
Party	Labor
Namesake	City of Cockburn
Electors	27,914 (2017)
Area	45 km2 (17.4 sq mi)
Demographic	South Metropolitan

Cockburn is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

The district is based in Perth's south-western suburbs. Politically, it is a safe Labor seat.

Geography

Cockburn is located in the south-western suburbs of Perth. It is a coastal electorate, lying to the west of the Kwinana Freeway. The district includes the suburbs of Cockburn Central, Yangebup, Munster, Beeliar, Success, Henderson, Wattleup, Hammond Park, most of Coogee and Spearwood, as well as parts of Bibra Lake and South Lake.

Cockburn was first contested at the 1962 state election. The seat's first member was Henry Curran, who had previously been the member for South Fremantle.

Cockburn has been at all times held by the Labor Party.

Western Australian state election, 2017: Cockburn^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Fran Logan	12,460	53.6	+5.4
	Liberal	Lavin Raja-Yogam	6,389	27.5	−14.0
	Greens	Shannon Hewitt	2,071	8.9	+1.3
	Independent	Steve Portelli	1,194	5.1	+5.1
	Christians	Edward Roose	592	2.5	+2.5
	Micro Business	Connor McHugh	264	1.1	+1.1
	Flux the System!	Erinn Stanfield	264	1.1	+1.1
Total formal votes			23,234	94.5	+0.0
Informal votes			1,354	5.5	−0.0
Turnout			24,588	88.1	+3.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Fran Logan	15,311	65.9	+11.3
	Liberal	Lavin Raja-Yogam	7,911	34.1	−11.3
	Labor hold		Swing	+11.3

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