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Electoral district of Ballajura
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Ballajura is an Electoral district of Western Australia. As in other districts, the Ballajura district elects a single person to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The elected person is then known as the Member for Ballajura, and is said to hold the seat of Ballajura. As of 2005, the Member for Ballajura is John D'Orazio who holds the seat for the Labor Party by a margin of 13.5%.
Ballajura is a northern suburban seat in Perth, and is dominated by the sprawling suburb whose name it bears, Ballajura, but also contains Noranda and parts of Morley and Beechboro in the south. It covers 44 km². The seat is marginal as Noranda usually tends Liberal, while Morley, Beechboro and southeastern Ballajura are safe ALP.
Ballajura was a new seat at the 1996 election, and was a contest between Labor's John D'Orazio and Helena MP Rhonda Parker, whose seat had been abolished in a redistribution. D'Orazio achieved a 1.5% swing but fell just 44 votes short of victory. In 2001, a 5.1% swing delivered the seat to D'Orazio - who survived a preselection challenge along the way from Burke's Old Right faction of the party. The 2005 election saw an 8.7% swing, with only one booth recording a non-Labor majority (0.7%).
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