Division of Tangney
| Tangney Australian House of Representatives Division | |||||||||||||||
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| Created | 1974 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Sam Lim | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Australian Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Dame Dorothy Tangney | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 122,303 (2022) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 83 km2 (32.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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The Division of Tangney is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. The Division was named after Dame Dorothy Tangney, the first female member of the Australian Senate.
Tangney is an affluent electorate covering the southern shores of the Swan and Canning rivers, divided by the Kwinana Freeway. It extends from Bicton to Riverton and Ferndale and as far south as Murdoch, Leeming and Canning Vale. Tangney covers 102 square kilometres (39 sq mi).
From the 1980s to 2022 it was considered a safe Liberal seat and in 2022 was held by Ben Morton, a former state director of the Liberal Party. In the 2022 Australian federal election, Sam Lim, the Labor candidate garnered a 10.4 per cent swing against the sitting member to deliver Tangney to the ALP for the first time since 1983.