Electoral district of Bicton

Bicton; Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
	Location of Bicton (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
State	Western Australia
Dates current	2017–present
MP	Lisa O'Malley
Party	Labor Party
Namesake	Bicton
Electors	26,959 (2019)
Area	20 km2 (7.7 sq mi)
Demographic	South Metropolitan Region

Bicton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It is located in Perth's southern suburbs, and named after the riverside suburb of Bicton.

Bicton was created by the Western Australian Electoral Commission in a 2015 redistribution, and elected its first member at the 2017 state election. It incorporates areas that previously fell into the seats of Alfred Cove, Bateman, Fremantle, and Willagee.

Geography

At the 2017 state election, Bicton includes the suburbs of Attadale, Bicton, and Melville in their entireties, most of East Fremantle and Palmyra, and smaller portions of Alfred Cove, Fremantle, and Myaree. It is bounded by Stirling Highway to the west, High Street and Leach Highway to the south, North Lake Road to the east, and the Swan River to the north.[1]

Member		Party	Term
	Lisa O'Malley	Labor	2017–present

2017 Western Australian state election: Bicton[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Matt Taylor	9,734	43.0	−9.9
	Labor	Lisa O'Malley	8,955	39.6	+11.8
	Greens	Louise Dickmann	2,406	10.6	−1.1
	Independent	Steve Kepert	734	3.2	+3.2
	Animal Justice	Colleen Saporita	325	1.4	+1.4
	Christians	Stephen Wardell-Johnson	237	1.0	+1.0
	Micro Business	Richard Korfanty	226	1.0	+1.0
Total formal votes			22,617	97.0	+2.1
Informal votes			695	3.0	−2.1
Turnout			23,312	89.6	+3.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Lisa O'Malley	11,968	52.9	+13.0
	Liberal	Matt Taylor	10,641	47.1	−13.0
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+13.0

2015 Final Boundaries by Region and District, Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
Bicton District Profile and Results, 2017 State General Election, WAEC.

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