Electoral district of Bateman
Bateman is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.
The district shares its name with the southern Perth suburb of Bateman, situated in the central part of the electorate. Both the electorate and the suburb are named after members of the Bateman family who established their home ‘Grasmere’ at nearby Bulls Creek in 1886.[1] The seat was created as a result of the 2007 electoral redistribution, largely replacing the former Murdoch electorate. Bateman is regarded as a safe Liberal seat, as Murdoch (itself largely replaced by Jandakot between 1989 and 1996[2]) had been held by the party since the seat's creation in 1977.
Bateman is bounded by North Lake Road to the west, South Street to the south, Karel Avenue and Fifth Avenue to the east, Bull Creek and the Canning River to the northeast, with its northern boundary running through the suburbs of Booragoon and Mount Pleasant, including the Blue Gum Reserve but excluding Garden City shopping centre. Its boundaries include the suburbs of Bateman, Brentwood, Bull Creek, Rossmoyne and Winthrop, along with Kardinya east of North Lake Road, Murdoch north of South Street, and parts of Booragoon, Mount Pleasant and Myaree.[3]
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