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44: 298:, but was heavily defeated in 2017 and returned to the backbench. As a measure of how safe this seat has been for the Liberals, Barnett suffered a swing of 7.8 percent but still retained it with a comfortable margin of 63.3 percent, making Cottesloe the Liberals' safest metropolitan seat and the second-safest statewide. He resigned later in 2018, and businessman 420:
index (2001) ranked them as the highest three electorates by socio-economic status in Western Australia, with high scores on educational and employment opportunity. At the 2006 census, the median individual income in the Cottesloe electorate, based on its 2005 boundaries, was $ 639 per week compared
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Cottesloe was created at the 1948 redistribution, at which three new metropolitan electorates were created to replace former northern and agricultural seats in Parliament. Its first member was elected at the
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to $ 513 in the Perth metropolitan area, and the median weekly household income was $ 1,416 compared to $ 1,086 across Perth. 56.8% of the population were professionals or managers.
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government in 1993–2001, and Opposition Leader in 2001–2005. Barnett, seen as a moderate within Liberal ranks, resigned the leadership after the
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Honey therefore became the third member for Cottlesloe and in a row to serve as leader of the state Liberal Party.
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As at the 2007 redistribution, Cottesloe is bounded by Loch Street and Brockway Road to the east, Perry Lakes and
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and generally poor opinion polls, Barnett was persuaded to reconsider (the nominated candidate for Cottesloe,
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easily retained the seat for the Liberals with a healthy swing in his favour. At the next
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Results of the 2021 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Cottesloe
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was called. At this election, Barnett became Premier of a minority Liberal-
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Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890–1996
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Prior to the redistribution, it had additionally contained sections of
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Location of Cottesloe (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
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to the east comprise the affluent western suburbs of Perth—the
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in 1984–1986. Hassell retired in 1990, and was succeeded by
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2021 State General Election – Cottesloe District Results
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to the south and southeast. It includes the suburbs of
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to the north, the Indian Ocean to the west, and the
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State electoral district in Perth, Western Australia
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Western Australia
Legislative Assembly

State
Western Australia
MP
David Honey
Party
Liberal
Cottesloe
Electors
Coordinates
32°00′S 115°46′E / 32.00°S 115.76°E / -32.00; 115.76
Legislative Assembly
electorate
Western Australia
Perth
Cottesloe
Colin Barnett
Premier of Western Australia
David Honey
a by-election
1950 election
Liberal Party
Ross Hutchinson
Brand
Bill Hassell
Opposition Leader
Premier
Brian Burke

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