Katrina Stratton

Katrina Stratton (born 6 January 1973)[1] 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.[2]

Stratton has a doctorate in social work and lectured at Curtin University.[3] She was also a board member at Tuart Place, a resource service for adults who were in out-of-home care during their childhood.[4][5]

The 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.[6] 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.[2] 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-fourths of Green preferences flowed to her.[7] Her victory was part of a large swing toward Labor in west Perth, an area long considered Liberal heartland.[8]