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Maylands Electorate Profile (2025)

About the Maylands Electorate

Map showing the boundaries of the Maylands electorate for the 2025 election

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Area (sq km): 21
Number of Electors: 31,360
Source: 2023 Final Distribution Report, Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission.

Origin of the Name:
TThe suburb of Maylands was developed in the 1890s around the railway line built through the area in the 1880s. The origin of the name is uncertain, but two possibilities have been suggested. One possible origin is that the name relates to the purchase of the land in the month of May by Mr E.W. Hamer; the other is that it was named by Mr Mephan Ferguson after his daughter, May. Ferguson ran an early business in the area.
Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places.

Suburbs and Towns within the Electorate:
The electorate of Maylands includes all or part of Bayswater, Bedford, Embleton, Inglewood, Maylands and Morley.
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.


Local Governments within the Electorate:
City of Bayswater; Statistical Profile of Bayswater
City of Stirling

Schools
Government: Bayswater Primary School; Durham Road School; Embleton Primary School; Hillcrest Primary School; Inglewood Primary School; John Forrest Secondary College; Maylands Peninsula Primary School.

Other: Chisholm Catholic College; St Columba's School; St Peter's Primary School.

Local Newspapers:

Statistical Profile of the Maylands Electorate

Elections

2021 Results by Polling Place, Candidate and Distribution of Preferences

Election Analysis:

Current Member

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Lisa Baker (ALP)

Lisa Baker was born in Perth and grew up living in what was then semi-rural Darlington in Perth's eastern hills region and attended the local Helena Primary School.

Lisa is Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Before entering Parliament she was Executive Director of the Western Australian Council of Social Services (WACOSS), worked in an executive position for the Ministry of Justice, was employed by several UN agencies, and served as a councillor on the Mundaring Shire Council.

As the representative for the electorate of Maylands in the State Parliament, Lisa is an advocate for improved public transport services for local village hubs and for increased supports for local businesses and jobs in her electorate.

Contact details and Speeches

Biography

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Successive Members for the Maylands Electorate

Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats 1929

Name Party Term
John Scaddan Nationalist 1930 - 1933
Robert Ernest Clothier Australian Labor Party 1933 - 1936
Harry Vivian Shearn Unendorsed Nationalist 1936 - 1951
Edward Peate Oldfield Liberal and Country League 1951b - 1956
John Mervin Toms Australian Labor Party 1956 - 1962
Edward Peate Oldfield Australian Labor Party 1962 - 1965
Robert James Percival Marshall Liberal and Country League 1965 - 1968
John Joseph Harman Australian Labor Party 1968 - 1986
Peter M'Callum Dowding Australian Labor Party 1986 - 1990
Dr Judith (Judy) Mary Edwards Australian Labor Party 1990b - 2008
Lisa Loraine Baker Australian Labor Party 2008 -

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