2015 Canning by-election

2015 Canning by-election
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The Canning seat in the House of Representatives
Registered112,809
Turnout79.53% Decrease 12.48
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Andrew Hastie Matt Keogh
Party Liberal Labor
Popular vote 39,712 30,096
Percentage 46.92% 35.56%
Swing Decrease4.15 Increase8.92
TPP 55.26% 44.74%
TPP swing Decrease6.55 Increase6.55
The Division of Canning covered southeastern parts of the Perth metropolitan area and Western Australia's Peel region.
MP before election

Don Randall
Liberal

Elected MP

Andrew Hastie
Liberal

The 2015 Canning by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives on Saturday 19 September from 8 am to 6 pm WST. The by-election in the seat of Canning was triggered by the death of sitting Liberal MP Don Randall on 21 July 2015.[1]

Speaker of the House of Representatives Tony Smith issued the writ for the by-election on 17 August 2015. Due to the requirement that the by-election must be held with at least 33 days' notice, the date set for polling day was the earliest possible day for holding it: 19 September.[2] The electoral roll in Canning closed on 24 August and candidate nominations closed on 27 August.[3]

Twelve candidates contested the election.[4] Edith Cowan University political analyst Harry Phillips said despite the Liberals holding Canning since the 2001 election, it would still be a "hotly contested seat".[1]

  1. ^ a b Death of federal MP opens way for by-election in WA seat of Canning: ABC 22 July 2015
  2. ^ Causes and Timing of Federal By-elections 1992–2015: Antony Green's Election Blog, ABC
  3. ^ Smith, Tony. "C2015G01318 – Issue of the writ for the Canning by-election". Australian Government Gazette. ComLaw. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference ballotorder was invoked but never defined (see the help page).