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Tangney

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Projection for Tangney

ALP
38.6%
LIB
31.5%
ONP
13.9%
GRN
12.0%

The line traces Tangney's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in WA's own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Tangney, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 56% of simulations
Labor 51.0%
Coalition (Liberal) 49.0%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Tangney

5%
Unemployment rate
0.1pt below Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
1974
Size
97 km²
Current member
Sam Lim (Labor)
Population
183,959
Median age
40
Median household income
$2,100/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
1.1%

Ancestry

European
46.5%
Australian
23.9%
Asian
16.5%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
66.1%
Mandarin
7.8%
Cantonese
2.8%
Indonesian
1.5%
Tamil
1.2%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
36.9%
Christian
29.5%
Buddhism
4.4%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
36.4%
High School
33.2%
TAFE Educated
21.8%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Owned (No Mortgage)
39%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
38%
Renting
20%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
65%
Blue collar
33%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Tangney

20222025Projection
ALP38.1%42.5%38.6%
LIB40.0%34.3%31.5%
GRN12.0%13.0%12.0%
ONP2.1%4.1%13.9%
Other7.8%6.2%4.0%

Latest update: 2 October 2026