Bicton Electorate Profile (2025)

About the Bicton Electorate

PDF version of the Bicton Electorate map

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.

• 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

• Bicton Electorate community profile .id demographic database
• Statistics for 2025 Election Boundaries (PDF)

Elections

2021 Results by Polling Place, Candidate and Distribution of Preferences

Election Analysis:

• Analysis of 2021 State Election Results
• Analysis of 2023 Boundaries Redistribution
• Analysis of previous elections, by-elections and boundary redistributions

Current Member

Successive Members for the Bicton Electorate

Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats 2015

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