Candidates of the 2017 Western Australian state election explained

This is a list of candidates for the 2017 Western Australian state election. The election was held on 11 March 2017.

Redistribution and seat changes

• A redistribution was completed in 2015. The most significant changes were:
  • The Liberal-held seats of Alfred Cove and Ocean Reef were renamed Bicton and Burns Beach respectively.
  • The Labor-held seat of Gosnells was renamed Thornlie.
  • The Liberal-held seat of Eyre and the National-held seat of Wagin were replaced by the notionally National seat of Roe, while a new notionally Labor seat, Baldivis, was created.
  • The Labor-held seats of Collie-Preston and West Swan became notionally Liberal.
• As a result of the redistribution:
  • Alfred Cove MLA Dean Nalder (Liberal) contested Bateman, while Bateman MLA Matt Taylor (Liberal) contested Bicton.
  • Eyre MLA Graham Jacobs (Liberal) contested Roe.
  • Gosnells MLA Chris Tallentire (Labor) contested Thornlie.
  • Ocean Reef MLA Albert Jacob (Liberal) contested Burns Beach.
• A number of MLCs contested Assembly seats:
  • Agricultural Nationals MLC Paul Brown contested Geraldton.
  • East Metropolitan Labor MLC Amber-Jade Sanderson contested Morley.
  • North Metropolitan Liberal MLC Peter Katsambanis contested Hillarys.

Retiring MPs

Liberal

• John Castrilli MLA (Bunbury) – announced 14 March 2016^[1]
• Kim Hames MLA (Dawesville) – announced 2 August 2014^[2]
• Liz Behjat MLC (North Metropolitan) – lost preselection^[3]
• Barry House MLC (South West Region) – announced 27 October 2015^[4]

National

• Wendy Duncan MLA (Kalgoorlie) – announced 4 December 2015^[5]
• Terry Waldron MLA (Wagin) – announced 25 November 2014^[6]

Legislative Assembly

Incumbent members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour.

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	National candidate	Greens candidate	One Nation candidate	Other candidates
			Peter Watson	Greg Stocks	Robert Sutton	David Rastrick	Anthony Griffiths	Ian 't Hart (AC)
			Tony Buti	Wendy Jeffery		Anthony Pyle		Edward Flaherty (MBP) Cameron Huynh (Ind) Nitasha Naidu (AC)
				Chris Hatton		Nicole Harvey		Keith McEncroe (AC) Mile Nasteski (MBP) Richard Tait (LDP)
				Malcolm George		Christine Fegebank	John Zurakowski	Craig Hamersley (Ind) Yvette Holmes (AC) Prabhpreet Makkar (MBP) Kath Summers (Ind) Matt Whitfield (Ind)
			Dave Kelly	Jim Seth		Sarah Quinton		Graeme Martin (MBP) Paul Mewhor (AC)
		Tomas Fitzgerald		Dean Nalder		Adie Wilmot	Michelle Meyers	Adrian Arnold (JMWA) Don Huggins (AC) Jonathan Masih (MBP)
				Glenys Godfrey		Bhuwan Khadka	Julie Mitchell	Brigit Anderson (AJP) Ian Blevin (SFFP) Sue Fraser (AC) Miral Soboh (MBP)
				Matt Taylor		Louise Dickmann		Steve Kepert (Ind) Richard Korfanty (MBP) Colleen Saporita (AJP) Stephen Wardell-Johnson (AC)
				Ian Morison		Michael Baldock	Sam Brown	Aldo Del Popolo (MBP) Bernie Masters (SFFP) Anthony Shannon (Flux)
				Albert Jacob		Mark Cooper		Rudolph Crous (AC) Sandy Culum-Buzak (MBP) Joy Drennan (FFP) Carl Maddox (JMWA)
			John Quigley	Linda Aitken		Tom Webster	Susan Hoddinott	Ryno Joubert (AC) Ron Smith (JMWA) Ola Sommer (MBP) Jan van Niekerk (SFFP)
			Bill Johnston	Jesse Jacobs		Elliot Thompson	Rozane Bezuidenhout	Zena Rihani (MBP) Gary Smith (AC) Mohsin Virk (-)
		Andrew Owens		Tony Krsticevic		Nadine Reeves-Hennessey	Terry Popham	Annette Almond (JMWA) Ray Moran (AC) Athan Tsirigotis (MBP)
		Gary Templeman	Bill Crabtree		Mia Davies	Audrey Foote	Shaun Reid	Estelle Gom (Ind) Dennis Pease (AC) Diff Reynders (SFFP)
				Sean L'Estrange		Joanna Gurak		Jim Bivoltsis (Ind) Jack Garber (JMWA) Daljeet Gill (MBP) Paul Phillips (AC)
			Fran Logan	Lavin Raja-Yogam		Shannon Hewitt		Connor McHugh (MBP) Steve Portelli (Ind) Edward Roose (AC) Erinn Stanfield (Flux)
			Mick Murray	Elysia Harverson	Monique Warnock	Gordon Tayler	David Miller	Don Hyland (Ind) Louie Scibilia (Ind) Clinton Thomas (SFFP)
				Colin Barnett		Greg Boland		Riaan Groenewald (AC) Alida Lancee (Ind) Dmitry Malov (Ind) Nicole Poppas (MBP) Michael Watson (-)
				Tony Simpson		Iwan Boskamp	Sharon Polgar	Craig Ballinger (MBP) Chris Barker (Flux) Derek Bruning (AC) Manamal Froumis (Ind) Jake McCoull (LDP) Stuart Ostle (SFFP)
		Adam Woodage			Luke Pilkington	Aeron Blundell-Camden	Lawrence Shave	Russell McCarthy (SFFP) Dave Schumacher (Ind) Liam Spence (Flux) Alan Svilicic (MBP)
				Nathan Morton		Eugene Marshall	Jenny Bennett	Brett Crook (AC) Ashley Jago (AJP) M. Shahalam (MBP)
			Simone McGurk	Hayden Shenton		Martin Spencer	Warren Duffy	Andrew Ayre (MBP) Chris Jenkins (SA) Janetia Knapp (JMWA) Gabrielle van der Linde (AC)
				Ian Blayney		Paul Connolly	Wayne Martin	David Caudwell (SFFP) Greg Hall (AC) Victor Tanti (Ind)
			Margaret Quirk	Dame Krcoski		Mushfiq Shah		Che Tam Nguyen (FFP) David Phillips (AC) Raymond Roach (SFFP) Sahaj Singh (MBP)
		Teresa Ritchie				Louahna Lloyd		Rob Johnson (Ind) Elisabete Robinson (AC)
				Joe Francis			John Murphy	Francesca Gobbert (AJP) Sat Samra (MBP) Warnar Spyker (AC)
				Jan Norberger		Lisa Webb		Brian Brightman (Ind) Nicholas Hart (FFP) Rex Host (AC) Aaron Malloy (JMWA) Peter Martin (MBP)
				John Day		Lee-Anne Miles	Ray Gould (resigned)	Murray Bowyer (JMWA) Evazelia Colyvas (MBP) Brady Williams (AC)
		Darren Forster				Jacqueline Spurling	Richard Bolton	James Erwin (Flux) Mike Lucas (SFFP)
			Josie Farrer	Warren Greatorex	Rob Houston	Liz Vaughan	Keith Wright	Ryan Albrey (Flux) Graham Chapman (Ind) Kai Jones (Ind)
				Andrea Mitchell		Matt Ward		Gilbert Burnside (AC) John McNair (JMWA) Dominic Staltari (MBP)
			Roger Cook	Bianca Talbot		Jody Freeman	Tim Taylor	Joshua Hyde (MBP) Eleanor Morel (AC)
			David Templeman	Lynne Rowlands	Jason Turner	Jodie Moffat	Doug Shaw	Paul Batsioudis (MBP) Seb Carrie-Wilson (Flux)
			Lisa Baker	Amanda Madden		Caroline Perks		Benny Fensome (MBP) Matt Kleyn (AC) Greg Smith (JMWA)
			Michelle Roberts	Daniel Parasiliti		Matthew Biggs	Tony D'Angelo	John Biltoft (MBP) Trent Passmore (SFFP) Greg Ross (JMWA)
			Janine Freeman	Lily Chen		Rafeif Ismail		Sareeta Doobree (MBP) Chukwudumebi Igbokwe (AC) Matueny Luke (Ind) Kim Mubarak (Ind)
		Barni Norton	Darren Slyns		Shane Love	Peter Leam	Jim Kelly	Wes Porter (AC) Ross Williamson (SFFP)
				Ian Britza		Anne-Marie Ricciardi		Nasim Boksmati (MBP) Lois Host (AC) Paul Longo (SFFP)
				Michael Sutherland		Matt Roberts		Alexandra Farsalas (MBP) Kandi Revian (AJP) Janelle van Burgel (AC)
				Murray Cowper	Paul Gillett	Callum Burwood	Ross Slater	Mark McCall (SFFP) Daniel Radley (Flux)
		Penny Taylor		Bill Marmion		Daniel Grosso		Keith Ginbey (MBP) Andrew Mangano (JMWA) Christopher Shaw (AC)
			Julee Westcott		Vince Catania	Carol Green	Dane Sorensen (disendorsed)	Sandy Davies (Ind) Adrian D'Cunha (Flux) Angela Hooper (MBP)
				Eleni Evangel		Hannah Milligan		Ben Ballingall (Flux) Matt Hanson (AJP) Archie Hyde (MBP) Ken Lim (AC) Ian Molyneux (JMWA)
				Mark Alchin	Brendon Grylls	Brent McKenna	David Archibald	Mark Dunn (Flux) Davyd Hooper (MBP) Fiona White-Hartig (SFFP)
		Marion Boswell		Mike Nahan		Thor Kerr		Zeeshan Pasha (MBP) Susan Regnard (AC) Gavin Waugh (JMWA)
			Mark McGowan	Wendy Baumann		James Mumme	James Omalley	Craig Buchanan (Ind) Mark Charles (MBP) Sylvia Stonehouse (AC)
		Bradley Willis	Graham Jacobs			Simone McInnes	Eketerina Zacklova	Anthony Fels (-) Cathie Kelly (AC) Peter Stacey (SFFP)
		Tony Walker		Liza Harvey		Judith Cullity	Margaret Dodd (resigned)	Dan Bailey (MBP) Kevin Host (AC) Steven Pynt (JMWA)
		Michael Voros		John McGrath		Mark Brogan		M. Francis (Ind) Fiona Reid (Ind) Jason St Martin (MBP) Rosemary Steineck (AC)
				Peter Abetz		Toni Pikos-Sallie		David Fishlock (LDP) Craig Harley (Ind) Steven Secker (Ind) Aman Singh (MBP) Ash Srivatstava (JMWA)
				Frank Alban		Evan Webb	Sandra Old	Danusha Bhowaniah (JMWA) Lucky Singh (MBP)
			Chris Tallentire	Rob Coales		Donna McAleese	Sandy Baraiolo (disendorsed)	Sibel Bennett (MBP) Madeleine Goiran (AC) Gary Hammond (SFFP) Andrew van Dam (Flux)
		Wes Hartley		Libby Mettam	Peter Gordon	Luke O'Connell
			Ben Wyatt	Julian Jacobs		Ryan Quinn		Jennifer Noye (MBP) Mark Staer (AC)
				Paul Miles		Robyn Treacy	Joe Darcy	Greg Macpherson (JMWA) Linley Pass (AC) Peter Rosengrave (MBP) Max Wilson (Ind)
			Paul Papalia	Luke Muscedere		Jillian Cain	Alex Scholz	Samantha Figgins (MBP) Thomas Hunter (JMWA) Deonne Kingsford (AC)
		Hugh Litson	Ross Woodhouse		Terry Redman	Andrew Huntley	Greg Moroney	Marc Deas (SFFP)
			Rita Saffioti	Rod Henderson		Beth McMullan		James Lawrence (JMWA) Isaac Moran (AC) Trevor Ruwoldt (SFFP)
			Peter Tinley	Rebecca Aubrey		Felicity McGeorge		Corina Abraham (SA) Robin Hosking (AC) Paul Potter (MBP)

Legislative Council

Six candidates were elected in each region. Incumbent members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MLC are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

Agricultural Region

The Labor Party was defending one seat. The Liberal Party was defending two seats. The National Party was defending two seats. The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party was defending one seat.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Greens candidates	One Nation candidates	SFF candidates
valign="top"	Darren West Laurie Graham Carol Martin Luke Clarkson	valign="top"	Jim Chown Steve Martin Brian Ellis Chris Wilkins Alan McFarland	valign=top	Martin Aldridge Colin de Grussa Leigh Ballard Fred Block Steve Blyth David Kennedy	valign=top	Ian James Dylan Copeland	Rod Caddies Craig McKinley Emma McKinley	valign=top	Rick Mazza Bevan Steele Mal Kentish
Christians candidates	Family First candidates	Micro Business candidates	LDP candidates	Matheson candidates	Flux candidates
valign=top	Trevor Young Les Holten	valign=top	Murray Yarran Leighton Knoll	valign=top	Dennis Jennings Petar Culum	valign=top	Connor Whittle Stuart Hatch	valign=top	Peter Swift Bruce Anderson	valign=top	Lewis Freer Peter Turner
DSP candidates	Fluoride Free candidates	Group J candidates	Group M candidates	Group P candidates	Group Q candidates
valign=top	Vince Radford Robert Tucker	valign=top	Phillip Strahan Gillian Pearce	valign=top	Alexander Reid Tim McMahon	valign=top	Murray Fleeton Patrick Akkari	valign=top	Brent Williamson Michael Prinz	valign=top	N. Spada S. Demir
Group R candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	David Reed Lewis Butto	valign=top	Graham Barrett-Lennard Frank Hough

East Metropolitan Region

The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	One Nation candidates	SFF candidates	Christians candidates
valign="top"	Alanna Clohesy* Samantha Rowe* Matthew Swinbourn* Thomas French Reece Wheadon Lauren Cayoun	valign="top"	Donna Faragher Alyssa Hayden Helen Morton Christopher Tan Raymond Gianoli Joanna Collins	valign=top	Tim Clifford Sarah Nielsen-Harvey Robyn Walsh	valign="top"	Charles Smith Chris Fernandez Lloyd McIntosh	valign=top	Paul Pitaro Mitchell Wellstead Steve Denham	valign=top	Jamie van Burgel Maryka Groenewald
Family First candidates	Micro Business candidates	LDP candidates	AJP candidates	Matheson candidates	Flux candidates
valign=top	Simon Geddes Steve Fuhrmann	valign=top	Kelvin White W. Ginbey	valign=top	Neil Hamilton Todd Phillips	valign=top	Talia Raphaely Nicole Arielli	valign=top	Russell Goodrick Stephen Lau	valign=top	Rob Redfearn Jim Taylor
DSP candidates	Fluoride Free candidates	Group B candidates	Group E candidates	Group J candidates	Group P candidates
valign=top	Michael Zakrzewski Riley Burkett	valign=top	John Watt Trevor McGowan	valign=top	M. Lottering Stef Pienaar	valign=top	Shawn Dhu Belinda Lange	valign=top	Charday Williams Ben Devlin	valign=top	Jayme Hewitt Natasha Forde
Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Roger Cornish

Mining and Pastoral Region

The Labor Party was defending one seat. The Liberal Party was defending two seats. The National Party was defending two seats. The Greens were defending one seat.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Greens candidates	One Nation candidates	SFF candidates
valign="top"	Stephen Dawson Kyle McGinn Peter Foster Christopher Mousley	valign="top"	Ken Baston Mark Lewis Barry Pound Jason Wells	valign=top	Jacqui Boydell Dave Grills Gary Brown Judi Janes Adrian Hatwell Terry Fleeton	valign=top	Robin Chapple Timothy Oliver	valign="top"	Robin Scott Justin Keating Janine Varley	valign=top	Stefan Colagiuri Shane Aylmore Kingsley Smith
Christians candidates	Family First candidates	Micro Business candidates	LDP candidates	Matheson candidates	Flux candidates
valign=top	Grahame Gould Jacky Young	valign=top	Ian Rose Bev Custers	valign=top	Natasha Rogers Pritam Patil	valign=top	Jared Neaves Marko Vasev	valign=top	Sonya Matheson Paul Costanzo	valign=top	Kai Shanks Melissa Taaffe
DSP candidates	Fluoride Free candidates	Group F candidates	Group G candidates	Group J candidates	Group N candidates
valign=top	Amanda Klaj Joel Duffy	valign=top	Anne Porter David Bauer	valign=top	Paul Fitzgerald Nicholas Cukela	valign=top	Atilla Ataman Tayla Stucke	valign=top	Abed Raouf Billy Amesz	valign=top	Angela Hyde Greg Gandossini
Group O candidates	Group S candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Arihia Henry Pete Francis	valign=top	Keith Mader Royce Normington	valign=top	Julie Owen Darby Renton

North Metropolitan Region

The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	One Nation candidates	SFF candidates	Christians candidates
valign="top"	Alannah MacTiernan* Martin Pritchard* Kelly Shay Hannah Beazley Laine McDonald Hugh Nguyen	valign="top"	Peter Collier Michael Mischin Tjorn Sibma Victoria Jackson Sandra Brewer Tim Walton	valign=top	Alison Xamon Samantha Jenkinson Ziggy Fatnowna	John Bombak Ian Hamilton	valign=top	Paul Bedford Daniel Strijk	valign=top	Dwight Randall Neil Fearis
Family First candidates	Micro Business candidates	LDP candidates	AJP candidates	Matheson candidates	Flux candidates
valign=top	Henry Heng Lesley Croll	valign=top	John Golawski Matt Golawski Mariah Bennington	valign=top	Brian Murray John Ogilvie	valign=top	Natasha Chakich Elizabeth McCasker	valign=top	Julie Matheson Jane Boxall	valign=top	Joshua van Ross Owen Merriman
DSP candidates	Fluoride Free candidates	Group A candidates	Group H candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Tye Short Michael Kennedy	valign=top	Steven Smith Clark Robertson	valign=top	Raoul Smith Michael Carey	valign=top	A. Albert Claire Norton	valign=top	Michael Tucak Derek Ammon Joe Ruzzi

South Metropolitan Region

The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats. The Greens were defending one seat.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	One Nation candidates	SFF candidates	Christians candidates
valign="top"	Sue Ellery* Kate Doust* Pierre Yang* Kelly McManus Vicky Burrows Dustin Rafferty	valign="top"	Nick Goiran Simon O'Brien Phil Edman Michelle Hofmann Lorraine Finlay Daryl Pranata	valign=top	Lynn MacLaren Jordon Steele-John Nasrin Dehghani	Philip Scott Richard Eldridge Ekaterina Andreeva	valign=top	Peter Raffaelli Wayne Higgs	valign=top	Bob Burdett Carmen Burdett
Family First candidates	Micro Business candidates	LDP candidates	AJP candidates	Matheson candidates	Flux candidates
valign=top	Nigel Irvine Cara Heng	valign=top	Cam Tinley Andrew Middleton Len Dibben	valign=top	Aaron Stonehouse Angadjeet Sanghera	valign=top	Katrina Love Ramona Janssen	valign=top	Andrew Luobikis Angela Watson	valign=top	Alexander Brownbill Keith Pomeroy
DSP candidates	Fluoride Free candidates	Socialist candidates	Group G candidates	Group I candidates	Group N candidates
valign=top	Wilson Tucker Peita Alberti	valign=top	Derek Rucki Nita Thakrar	valign=top	Sam Wainwright Petrina Harley	valign=top	Robert Cotterell Michelle Cotterell	valign=top	Vito Matarazzo Yusuf Oruc	valign=top	William Freeman Daksh Varma
Group O candidates	Group Q candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Carol Adams Karen Vernon Luke Bolton Jonathan Ford	valign=top	Rick Smith Adrian Snary	valign=top	Laona Jones Norm Heslington Frank Brown Rosemary Lorrimar Tony Romano

South West Region

The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats, although sitting MLC Nigel Hallett was running for the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party. The National Party was defending one seat.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	National candidates	Greens candidates	One Nation candidates	SFF candidates
valign="top"	Sally Talbot* Adele Farina* John Mondy Barry Winmar Jessica Short	valign="top"	Steve Thomas Wade De Campo Robyn McSweeney Tony Norment Heather Reid Douglas McLarty	valign="top"	Colin Holt Louise Kingston Bevan Eatts Kylie Kennaugh	valign=top	Diane Evers Hsien Harper	valign="top"	Colin Tincknell Cameron Bartkowski Sean Butler	valign=top	Nigel Hallett Craig Carbone Ray Hull
Christians candidates	Family First candidates	Micro Business candidates	LDP candidates	Matheson candidates	Flux candidates
valign=top	Greg Spaanderman Rachael Dowdell	valign=top	Linda Rose Dave Bolt	valign=top	Jeff Casson Devinder Chinna	valign=top	Nathan Dyson Damian Coletta	valign=top	Stephen Phelan Blake Phelan	valign=top	Daithí Gleeson Mark Bentley
AJP candidates	DSP candidates	Fluoride Free candidates	Group J candidates	Group Q candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Alicia Sutton Eric Gobbert	valign=top	Brett Tucker Janet Wilson	valign=top	Hayley Green John Vukovich	valign=top	Tim Hartley Julio Pieraldi	valign=top	Eric Thern Katrina De Ruyck	valign=top	John Higgins Zyggi Uchwal Kyle Hammond

References

• WA Electoral Commission - 2017 State Election
• WA Labor - Candidates
• Liberal Party - Your Electorate
• Nationals WA - Candidates
• The Greens - WA Candidates
• One Nation - Candidates

Notes and References

1. News: Bunbury MLA John Castrilli to retire at next State election. 14 March 2016. The West Australian. 18 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160317154438/https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/31095197/bunbury-mla-john-castrilli-to-retire-at-next-state-election/#page1. 17 March 2016. dead.
2. News: Joe Spagnolo: Hunt for WA Liberal leader to replace Colin Barnett after deputy Kim Hames confirms he will not contest next state election. https://archive.today/20140812022617/http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/opinion/joe-spagnolo-hunt-for-wa-liberal-leader-to-replace-colin-barnett-after-deputy-kim-hames-confirms-he-will-not-contest-next-state-election/story-fnhocuug-1227011267567. dead. 12 August 2014. 9 August 2014. Perth Now. 2 August 2014.
3. Web site: Who will make the team as Libs plan for state election?.
4. News: Veteran MP to retire from politics. 27 October 2015. Perth Now. 17 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20151217072808/https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/29922453/veteran-mp-barry-house-announces-retirement-from-politics/#page1. 17 December 2015. dead.
5. News: MP Wendy Duncan reflects on career as prospective candidates circle in Kalgoorlie. 7 December 2015. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 December 2015.
6. News: Waldron to retire from politics. 25 November 2014. The West Australian. 25 November 2014.