Electoral district of Burns Beach

Burns Beach Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
Location of Burns Beach (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
State	Western Australia
Dates current	2017–present
MP	Mark Folkard
Party	Labor
Namesake	Burns Beach
Electors	28,779 (2017)
Area	40 km² (15.4 sq mi)
Demographic	North Metropolitan Region

Burns Beach is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It is located in Perth's northern suburbs, and named after the suburb of Burns Beach.

Burns Beach was created by the Western Australian Electoral Commission in a 2015 redistribution, and will gain its first member at the 2017 state election. It incorporates areas that previously fell into the seats of Butler, Joondalup, and Ocean Reef.

Geography

Burns Beach includes the suburbs of Burns Beach, Clarkson, Iluka, Kinross, Mindarie, Tamala Park, as well as portions of Currambine, Joondalup, and Neerabup. It is bounded by Quinns Road, Marmion Avenue, and Hester Avenue to the north; Wanneroo Road to the east, Joondalup Drive, Moore Drive, Marmion Avenue, and Shenton Avenue to the south; and the Indian Ocean to the west.^[1]

Member		Party	Term
	Mark Folkard	Labor	2017–present

Western Australian state election, 2017: Burns Beach^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labor	Mark Folkard	10,069	42.6	+10.0
	Liberal	Albert Jacob	9,768	41.4	−15.7
	Greens	Mark Cooper	2,060	8.7	+1.3
	Family First	Joy Drennan	504	2.1	+1.3
	Christians	Rudolph Crous	476	2.0	−0.0
	Matheson for WA	Carl Maddox	471	2.0	+2.0
	Micro Business	Sandy Culum-Buzak	266	1.1	+1.1
Total formal votes			23,614	94.7	+1.4
Informal votes			1,325	5.3	−1.4
Turnout			24,939	86.7	+4.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Mark Folkard	12,400	52.5	+13.9
	Liberal	Albert Jacob	11,207	47.5	−13.9
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+13.9

↑ 2015 Final Boundaries by Region and District, Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
↑ Burns Beach District Profile and Results, 2017 State General Election, WAEC.

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