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Rockingham Electorate Profile (2025)

About the Rockingham Electorate

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

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

Area (sq km): 49
Number of Electors: 30,299
Source: 2023 Final Distribution Report, Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission.

Origin of the Name:
Rockingham is named after the ship 'Rockingham' which ran aground in 1830 on the beach which fronts the suburb. The ship was the last of three ships to bring Thomas Peel's settlers to the new colony, and although initially salvaged, was eventually sunk in Cockburn Sound. The site of Rockingham was identified by Surveyor General J.S. Roe in 1846, and a townsite was surveyed here by Alfred Hillman in 1847.
Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places.

Suburbs and Towns within the Electorate:
The electorate of Rockingham includes all or part of Cooloongup, East Rockingham, Garden Island, Hillman, Peron, Rockingham, Safety Bay, Shoalwater and Waikiki.
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.


Local Governments within the Electorate:
City of Rockingham (part); Statistical profile of the City of Rockingham

Schools
Government: Bungaree Primary School; Charthouse Primary School; Cooloongup Primary School; East Waikiki Primary School; Hillman Primary School; Malibu School; Rockingham Beach Primary School; Rockingham Beach Education Support Centre; Rockingham Senior High School; Rockingham Senior High School Education Support Centre; Safety Bay Primary School; Safety Bay Senior High School .

Other: Kolbe Catholic College; Rockingham Montessori School; SMYL Community College; Star Of The Sea Primary School.

Local Newspapers:

Books about Rockingham
  • Rishard Draper: Rockingham - the visions unfold, a history of the Rockingham District (426p. City of Rockingham, 1997)
  • V Fall: The sea and the forest - a history of the Port of Rockingham, Western Australia (213p. UWA Press, 1972)
  • Peter FitzSimons: The Catalpa rescue (405p. Hachette, 2019)

Statistical Profile of the Rockingham Electorate

Successive Members for the Rockingham Electorate

Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats 2007

Name Party Term
Michael Barnett Australian Labor Party 1974 - 1996
Mark McGowan Australian Labor Party 1996 - 2023
Magenta Marshall Australian Labor Party 2023b -

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