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Federal division, inner-metropolitan

# Tangney

In Western Australia.

## Sitting member

- [ **Sam Lim** Labor, Tangney ](https://politics.computer/mp/sam-lim)

About

## About Tangney

Tangney is an inner-metropolitan federal electoral division in Western Australia, covering the southern shores of the Swan and Canning rivers. It is held by Sam Lim of the Australian Labor Party, who won the seat at the 2022 election. His ads focus on the topics listed on this page.

Area

102 square kilometres

Named after

Dame Dorothy Tangney, first female member of the Australian Senate

Created

Established at the 1974 redistribution, first contested at the 1974 election

Previous member

Ben Morton, Liberal, held the seat from 2016 until 2022

Labor first win since 1983

Sam Lim won at the 2022 election, a 10.4 per cent swing against the sitting member

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FTangney), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Tangney whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Tangney yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Tangney are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

## Other divisions in Western Australia

- [Brand](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/brand)
- [Bullwinkel](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/bullwinkel)
- [Burt](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/burt)
- [Canning](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/canning)
- [Cowan](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/cowan)
- [Curtin](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/curtin)
- [Durack](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/durack)
- [Forrest](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/forrest)
- [Fremantle](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/fremantle)
- [Hasluck](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/hasluck)
- [Moore](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/moore)
- [O'Connor](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/o-connor)
- [Pearce](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/pearce)
- [Perth](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/perth)
- [Swan](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/swan)

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