Electoral district of Bicton

Bicton Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of electoral district boundaries from the 2025 state election
State	Western Australia
Dates current	2017–present
MP	Lisa O'Malley
Party	Labor
Namesake	Bicton
Electors	31,882 (2025)
Area	20 km2 (7.7 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	31°57′S115°58′E / 31.95°S 115.96°E / -31.95; 115.96
Electorates around Bicton: Cottesloe Nedlands Nedlands Cottesloe Bicton Bateman Fremantle Fremantle Bibra Lake

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]

Members for Bicton

Bicton was created as a notionally safe Liberal seat with a majority of 10 percent over Labor, and was reckoned as the successor to the safe Liberal seat of Alfred Cove. However, in 2017, a massive Labor wave swept through Perth, and Labor's Lisa O'Malley won the seat on a swing of 13 percent. She defeated Matt Taylor, who had been the Liberal member for Bateman.

At the 2021 state election, O'Malley saw her margin swell to 15.6 percent, turning Bicton into a safe Labor seat in one stroke.

Member		Party	Term
	Lisa O'Malley	Labor	2017–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Bicton

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2025 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Bicton.[ edit ]

2025 Western Australian state election: Bicton ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lisa O'Malley	12,438	45.1	−11.2
	Liberal	Chris Dowson	9,562	34.7	+4.6
	Greens	Adam Bennett	3,982	14.5	+5.3
	One Nation	Tim Smith	868	3.2	+1.8
	National	Bill Koul	704	2.6	+2.6
Total formal votes			27,554	96.8	−0.6
Informal votes			924	3.2	+0.6
Turnout			28,478	89.3	+2.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Lisa O'Malley	16,346	59.3	−6.8
	Liberal	Chris Dowson	11,200	40.7	+6.8
	Labor hold		Swing	−6.8

References

1. 2015 Final Boundaries by Region and District, Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
2. 2025 State General Election – Bicton District Results, WAEC. Retrieved 2 April 2025.

External links

• ABC election profiles: 2017 Archived 3 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• WAEC district maps: 2015 Archived 20 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine