WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 2017
CockburnMargin: Labor 3.6% |
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Candidates in ballot paper order
A Labor seat since its creation in 1962, Cockburn covers suburbs around 10 kilometres to the south of Fremantle, including long-established Coogee, Munster and southern Spearwood near the coast, and the newer developments of Yangebup, Beeliar and Success further inland. The emergence of the latter has punctured Labor's once overwhelming dominance, with the margin falling to single figures for the first time in 2008, and reducing to 4.1% after a 5.1% swing in 2013. Cockburn has been held since 2001 by Fran Logan, a former organiser for the Left faction Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which considerably expanded its parliamentary power base with the election of the Gallop government. Logan won immediate promotion to parliamentary secretary, and then to cabinet as Housing Minister after the 2005 election, followed by a move to Energy Minister in December 2006. Despite suffering bad press in the latter role over problems in the gas industry, Logan has remained on the front bench in opposition, holding the shadow portfolios of housing, local jobs, training and workforce development since the 2013 election. |