Electoral district of Ocean Reef

Ocean Reef Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
State	Western Australia
Dates current	2008–2017
Namesake	Ocean Reef
Area	22 km^2 (8.5 sq mi)

Ocean Reef was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It was located in Perth's northern suburbs, and was named after the suburb of Ocean Reef.

History

Ocean Reef was created at the 2007 redistribution out of most of the Mindarie electorate and parts of Joondalup and Hillarys. Its creation reflected both the growth of the City of Wanneroo region which now required three full electorates (Wanneroo, Mindarie and Girrawheen), and the increase in the number of metropolitan seats in accordance with the new one vote one value legislation.

Ocean Reef was a notional Labor seat upon its creation, but was one of a number of marginal seats that fell to the Liberal Party at the 2008 election. Liberal candidate Albert Jacob won it on a swing of six percent. He picked up a massive 16-point swing in 2013 amid the Liberals' landslide re-election victory. Ocean Reef was abolished in a 2015 redistribution, with effect from the 2017 state election. Its territory was distributed between Burns Beach (a new seat) and Joondalup.[1]

Geography

Ocean Reef extended from the Wanneroo-Joondalup coastal boundary southwards, taking in the suburbs of Burns Beach, Iluka, Kallaroo, Kinross, Mullaloo, Ocean Reef and most of Currambine.[2]

In the redistribution of 2011, the suburb of Mindarie was moved from the district of Mindarie into the district of Ocean Reef, effective at the 2013 election. The district of Mindarie was renamed Butler as a result.

Members for Ocean Reef

Member		Party	Term
	Albert Jacob	Liberal	2008–2017

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Ocean Reef

2013 Western Australian state election: Ocean Reef

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Jacob	13,700	65.1	+18.8
	Labor	Philippa Taylor	5,384	25.6	–13.1
	Greens	Mary O'Byrne	1,409	6.7	–3.5
	Christians	Lyn Kennedy	301	1.4	–0.6
	Family First	Aliné Croll	243	1.2	–1.7
Total formal votes			21,037	93.6	−1.3
Informal votes			1,430	6.4	+1.3
Turnout			22,467	90.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Albert Jacob	14,507	69.0	+16.3
	Labor	Philippa Taylor	6,527	31.0	–16.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+16.3

References

1. 2015 Final Boundaries by Region and District, Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
2. Western Australian Electoral Commission (29 October 2007). "2007 Electoral Distribution - Final Boundaries - North Metropolitan - Ocean Reef". Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2008.