Preview of Cowan 2018/19

Today I am looking at a seat that regurally bukles the trend Cowan first contested in 1984 it was won by labor’s Carolyn Jakobsen who held it till 1993 when labor’s vote started dropping in the west and the seat was won by Richard Evans he held it In 1996 but lost in 1998 to graham Edwards of the labor party who was both a Vietnam and a state parliament veteran who retired in 2007 when Luke sympkins buckles the trend to win it for the libs one of only two gains at that election the other is swan. He held it until a combo of the 2016 redistribution and a high profile labor candidate saw the seat won by Anne ally of labor in a close contest as a northern seat in perth an area that was swung erratically in the last two elections of both federal and state. That combined with the fact that labor have lost it on the last labor governments election this will be a seat to watch