Katrina Stratton

Katrina Stratton
MLA
Katrina Stratton MLA
	Katrina Stratton holds a dog at the Dogs' Refuge Home in Shenton Park
Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly; for Nedlands
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 13 March 2021
Preceded by	Bill Marmion
Personal details
Born	6 January 1973 (age 51); Subiaco, Western Australia
Political party	Labor
Alma mater	University of Western Australia
Website	katrinastratton.com.au

Katrina Stratton (born 6 January 1973)^[2] is a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Nedlands for the Australian Labor Party. She won her seat at the 2021 Western Australian state election.^[3] In July 2024, Stratton announced she would be leaving the Nedlands and taking the Legislative Council seat vacated by Sally Talbot.^[4]

Education and career

Dr. Stratton has a number of degrees, having obtained a Bachelor of Social Work, a Doctor of Philosophy, and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Western Australia.^[5] Prior to her election win in 2021 Startton lectured at Curtin University^[6] and was a board member at Tuart Place, a resource service for adults who were in out-of-home care during their childhood.^[7]^[8]

Election Results

2021 State Election

The Nedlands seat had been held by the Liberals or their predecessors since its creation in 1930, most notably by former premiers Charles and Richard Court. As a measure of how strongly the seat tilted toward the Liberals, in 2001 Labor was pushed into third place even as the Liberals suffered the second-largest defeat of a sitting government in the state's history at the time.^[9] The incumbent member, former minister and former deputy opposition leader Bill Marmion, sat on a margin of eight percent after a redistribution before the writs were issued. However, Stratton narrowly led Marmion on the first count after Marmion lost over 16 percent of his primary vote from 2017.^[3] Stratton ultimately won the seat with 52.8% of the two-party preferred vote, a swing of 10.8%, after preferences were distributed. She defeated Marmion on the fifth count after over three-quarters of Green preferences flowed to her.^[10] Her victory was part of a large swing toward Labor in west Perth, an area long considered Liberal heartland.^[11]

2021 Western Australian state election: Nedlands^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Katrina Stratton	9,327	35.7	+9.1
	Liberal	Bill Marmion	9,160	35.0	−16.6
	Greens	Tamara Alderdice	3,549	13.6	−1.9
	Independent	Fiona Argyle	2,883	11.0	+11.0
	Independent	Andrew Mangano	632	2.4	+2.4
	No Mandatory Vaccination	Vivien Forrest	412	1.6	+1.6
	WAxit	Dennis Jennings	179	0.7	−0.7
Total formal votes			26,142	97.6	+0.8
Informal votes			648	2.4	−0.8
Turnout			26,790	88.4	+1.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Katrina Stratton	13,805	52.8	+10.8
	Liberal	Bill Marmion	12,330	47.2	−10.8
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.8