| Bullwinkel AustralianHouse of RepresentativesDivision | |||||||||||||||
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| Created | 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Trish Cook | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Vivian Bullwinkel | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 9,508 km2 (3,671.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Outer metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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TheDivision of Bullwinkel is anAustralian electoral division in thestate ofWestern Australia contested for the first time at the2025 federal election.[1] It was created in 2024 as part of aredistribution, a statutory process to maintain broad population equality amongst lower house seats over time and as populations shift, and thus maintain broadlyone vote one value. The process was managed, and ultimately new boundaries for WA divisions were determined, by Australia's independent statutory elections authority, the Australian Electoral Commission. The current representative as of the2025 Australian federal election is Trish Cook of theAustralian Labor Party.
The seat at its creation was a 'marginal seat', beingnotionally held by theLabor Party by only 3.3%.[2]
A hybrid urban-rural seat, Bullwinkel takes in certain outer eastern suburbs ofPerth, then sweeps out to the northeast and southeast, to cover rural areas to the east of the state capital's metropolitan area. It incorporates areas that were formerly parts of the divisions ofHasluck,Durack,Swan,O'Connor andCanning, prior to the redrawing of their boundaries. Those boundary changes, and new boundaries for the new seat, took effect from the first election of the whole House of Representatives held after the 2024 effective date of the redistribution: namely, the 2025 Australian election.[3]
The seat is named forLieutenant ColonelVivian Statham,AO,MBE,ARRC,ED (née Bullwinkel), anAustralian Army nurse during theSecond World War who was the sole surviving nurse of theBangka Island massacre.[4][5] After making it back to Australia following the war, Bullwinkel had a long and successful career in nursing across Australia, and lived for the last 23 years of her life in Perth.
A number of objections were received to adoption of the name, as Bullwinkel had moved to Western Australia only later in her life, and had no particular association with the specific area covered by the new division. Other names were suggested, including that of a local nurse killed in the Bangka Massacre named Alma Beard. The AEC maintained the name Bullwinkel on the grounds, amongst others, that the naming of federal electorates recognised the "extent of a person's contribution to the country as a whole" and across the whole of their life.[6]
| Image | Member | Party | Term | Notes | |
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 | Trish Cook (1964–) | Labor | 3 May 2025 – present | Incumbent |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Trish Cook | 33,436 | 31.95 | −4.51 | |
| Liberal | Matt Moran | 25,433 | 24.30 | −10.05 | |
| National | Mia Davies | 16,507 | 15.77 | +14.40 | |
| Greens | Abbey Bishop | 11,728 | 11.21 | −0.09 | |
| One Nation | Trevor Mayes | 9,011 | 8.61 | +4.28 | |
| Legalise Cannabis | Penelope Young | 5,262 | 5.03 | +5.03 | |
| Christians | Les Holten | 3,287 | 3.14 | +2.11 | |
| Total formal votes | 104,664 | 96.44 | +1.97 | ||
| Informal votes | 3,867 | 3.56 | −1.97 | ||
| Turnout | 108,531 | 89.43 | +3.21 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Trish Cook | 52,865 | 50.51 | −2.84 | |
| Liberal | Matt Moran | 51,799 | 49.49 | +2.84 | |
| Laborhold | Swing | −2.84 | |||
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