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Cottesloe Electorate Profile (2025)

About the Cottesloe Electorate

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

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Area (sq km): 33
Number of Electors: 32,248
Source: 2023 Final Distribution Report, Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission.

Origin of the Name:
In September 1886, Commissioner of Crown Lands John Forrest announced his intention to subdivide land between Perth and Fremantle into suburban lots and asked His Excellency, Governor Sir Frederick Napier Broome, to suggest a name; he chose 'Cottesloe after, "the title lately bestowed on a member of the Fremantle family." Cottesloe was named after Thomas Francis Fremantle, Lord Cottesloe and first Baron of Swanbourne (in 1874), the older brother to Captain Charles Howe Fremantle who, on 2 May 1829, raised the first British flag at Fremantle.
Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places.

Suburbs and Towns within the Electorate:
The electorate of Cottesloe includes all or part of City Beach, Claremont, Cottesloe, Dalkeith, Mosman Park, Mt Claremont, North Fremantle, Peppermint Grove and Swanbourne.
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.


Local Governments within Electorate:
Shire of Peppermint Grove
City of Fremantle; Statistical Profile of City of Fremantle
City of Nedlands
Town of Claremont; Statistical Profile of Town of Claremont
Town of Cottesloe
Town of Mosman Park
Town of Cambridge; Statistical Profile of Town of Cambridge

Schools
Government: City Beach Primary School; Cottesloe Primary School; Freshwater Bay Primary School; Mosman Park Primary School; Mosman Park School for Deaf Children; Mount Claremont Primary School; North Cottesloe Primary School; North Fremantle Primary School; Swanbourne Primary School.

Other: Beehive Montessori School; Christ Church Grammar School; Iona Presentation College; Japanese School in Perth; John XXlll College; Methodist Ladies' College; Presbyterian Ladies' College; Scotch College; St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls; St Thomas' Primary School.

Local Newspapers:

Books about Cottesloe:
  • Ruth Marchant James: Cottesloe - a town of distinction (414p. Town of Cottesloe, 2007)
  • Ruth Marchant James: Heritage of pines - a history of the Town of Cottesloe Western Australia (133p. Town of Cottesloe, 1977)/li>
  • Maxine Laurie: Ten decades - a photographic history of the Town of Cottesloe (64p. Town of Cottesloe, 1995)
  • Katherine Wallace: Beaches, bush & riverbanks - memories of Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove & Mosman Park (165p. Cottesloe-Peppermint Grove-Mosman Park Library, 2006
  • H S G Downey: Mosman Park, Western Australia (75p. UWA Press, 1971)
  • Robert Pascoe: Peppermint Grove - Western Australia's capital suburb (168p. OUP, 1983)
  • Geoffrey Bolton: Claremont: a history (244p. UWA Press, 1999)
  • A Lovekin: Butler's "Hump", more recently known as Keane's Point - a short historical sketch (44p. Dix & Co, 1918)

Statistical Profile of the Cottesloe Electorate

Elections

2021 Results by Polling Place, Candidate and Distribution of Preferences

Election Analysis:

Current Member

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David Honey (LIB)

Contact details and Speeches

Biography

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Successive Members for the Cottesloe Electorate

Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats 1948

Name Party Term
Ross Hutchinson Lib & Country League 1950 - 1977
William (Bill) Ralph Boucher Hassell Liberal Party 1977 - 1990
Colin James Barnett Liberal Party 1990b -2018
David John Honey (Dr) Liberal Party 2018b - 

b = by-election
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) http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au