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Bicton Electorate Profile (2025)

About the Bicton Electorate

Map showing the boundaries of the Bicton electorate for the 2021 election

PDF version of the Bicton Electorate map PDF/pdf-file.png

Area (sq km): 20
Number of Electors: 31,097
Source: 2019 Final Distribution Report, Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission.

Origin of the name:
The suburb of Bicton once comprised four grants taken up in 1830 by Alfred Waylen, Joseph Cooper, William Habgood and John Hole Duffield. Bicton was the name of Duffield's estate in his home village in South Devon, England. The vineyard he established upon his death in 1859 was also given this name.
Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places.

Suburbs and Towns within the Electorate:
The electorate of Bicton includes all or part of Alfred Cove, Attadale, Bicton, East Fremantle, Melville, Myaree, O'Connor, Palmyra and Willagee.
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.


Local Governments within the Electorate:
Town of East Fremantle (part)
City of Melville (part) ; Statistical Profile of City of Melville

Schools
Government: Attadale Primary School; Bicton Primary School; Caralee Community School; Fremantle Language Development Centre; Melville Primary School; Melville Senior High School; Palmyra Primary School; Richmond Primary School.

Other: Mel Maria Catholic Primary School; Our Lady Of Fatima School; Santa Maria College.



Books about Bicton:
  • W.S. Cooper: A city for all seasons - the story of Melville (327p. City of Melville, 1989)
  • Jack Lee: This is East Fremantle - the story of a town and its people (1979)

Statistical Profile of the Bicton Electorate

Successive Members for the Bicton Electorate

Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats 2015

Name Party Term
Lisa Margaret O'Malley Australian Labor Party 2017 -

Source:
Black, David & Valerie Prescott. Election Statistics: Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, WA: Parliament of Western Australia Electoral Commission, 1997.
Parliament of Western Australia, Members (website) https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au