Electoral district of Southern River

State electoral district of Perth, Western Australia

Southern River
Western Australia—Legislative Assembly

Location of Southern River (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area

State

Western Australia

Dates current

1996–present

Terry Healy

Party

Labor

Namesake

Southern River

Electors

29,655 (2021)

Area

35 km² (13.5 sq mi)

Demographic

Metropolitan

Electorates around Southern River:
Jandakot	Thornlie	Kalamunda
Jandakot	Southern River	Kalamunda
Jandakot	Jandakot	Armadale

Southern River is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Western Australia.

The district is a marginal seat based in the southern suburbs of Perth.

Geography

Southern River is an electorate situated in Perth's southern suburbs. The district includes the suburbs of Southern River and Huntingdale, as well as parts of the suburbs of Canning Vale and Gosnells.

History

Southern River was first contested at the 1996 state election. The seat was won by Liberal Party candidate Monica Holmes who defeated Labor candidate Judyth Watson, the latter being at the time member for the abolished Kenwick. Holmes was defeated at the 2001 state election by Labor candidate Paul Andrews.

The redistribution ahead of the 2005 state election shifted Southern River eastward, making the seat safer for the Labor Party. That election saw Paul Andrews defeat Monica Holmes a second time, with a much wider margin in large part due to the redistribution changes. The next redistribution saw much of the previous changes reversed, making Southern River once again a marginal seat. With Labor's hold on the seat now much more tenuous, Andrews was defeated at the 2008 state election by Liberal candidate Peter Abetz. Abetz held the seat through the 2013 state election but lost to Labor's Terry Healy at the 2017 state election.

Members for Southern River

	Party	Term
Monica Holmes	Liberal	1996–2001
Paul Andrews	Labor	2001–2008
Peter Abetz	Liberal	2008–2017
Terry Healy	Labor	2017–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2021 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Southern River.[edit]

2021 Western Australian state election: Southern River^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Terry Healy	18,718	76.0	+26.3
	Liberal	Ruben Zandman	2,879	11.7	−27.2
	Greens	Simone Collins	875	3.6	−2.8
	Christians	Gerard Spoelstra	799	3.2	+3.2
	One Nation	Malcolm Heffernan	334	1.4	+1.4
	No Mandatory Vaccination	Katie Hawkes	307	1.2	+1.2
	WAxit	Shazi Siddiqui	283	1.1	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Wesley Du Preez	257	1.0	+0.4
	Independent	Julia Walsh	188	0.8	+0.8
Total formal votes			24,640	96.0	+0.7
Informal votes			1,039	4.0	−0.7
Turnout			25,679	86.6	+1.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Terry Healy	20,472	83.1	+25.3
	Liberal	Ruben Zandman	4,155	16.9	−25.3
	Labor hold		Swing	+25.3