Electoral district of Palmerston West

Palmerston WestWest-Palmerston帕默镇西 Pàmòzhèn Xī西パーマストン Nishi-PāmasutonEnderronian Parliament 	Palmerston WestWest-Palmerston帕默镇西 Pàmòzhèn Xī西パーマストン Nishi-PāmasutonEnderronian Parliament 	Palmerston WestWest-Palmerston帕默镇西 Pàmòzhèn Xī西パーマストン Nishi-PāmasutonEnderronian Parliament
Location of Palmerston West in Greater Chung'an 	Location of Palmerston West in Greater Chung'an 	Location of Palmerston West in Greater Chung'an
District Details 	District Details 	District Details
Created 	1966 	
MP 	Omar Wahed 	
Party 	Social Democrats 	
Namesake 	Palmerston region of Chung'an 	
Electors 	130,611 	
Area 	TBA km² 	
Demographic 	Inner metropolitan 	
Palmerston West is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Longshan Prefecture, first contested at the 1966 federal election. It is named after the Palmerston region of Chung'an, the historical inner city. Its territory encompasses most of the Chung'an central business district and parts of its inner western suburbs.
The sitting member, since the 2018 federal election, is Omar Wahed, a member of the Social Democratic Party.
==History==
In its original form, Palmerston West was a fairly safe seat for the Social Democrats, located in the western suburbs of Chung'an. Successive redistributions have pushed Palmerston West eastward towards the city centre, which has made it more of a swing seat. In its current form, the seat's electoral geography is similar to its neighbour, Palmerston East, but has tended to be more marginal, changing hands more frequently. This is due to the marginal nature of the Chung'an CBD. The seat changed hands at every election from 1986 to 1998.
==Members==
# 	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1 	width="3%"	Ray Sutton 	Social Democrats	1966–1986
2 	 	Steve Kiplinger 	United 	1986–1990
3 	 	Jeremy Lee 	Conservative 	1990–1994
4 	 	Liwei Liang 	Social Democrats	1994–1998
5 	 	Marcia Poole 	Conservative 	1998–2000
5 	 	Marcia Poole 	Liberal 	2000–2005
6 	 	Kenneth Sugiyama	Social Democrats	2005–2006
7 	 	Wilma Kang 	Liberal 	2006–2014
(6)	 	Kenneth Sugiyama	Social Democrats	2014–2018
8 	 	Omar Wahed 	Social Democrats	2018–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Palmerston West	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Palmerston West	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Palmerston West	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Palmerston West	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Palmerston West	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Palmerston West
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Liberal 	John Murakami 	47,689 	39.13 	–1.82
 	Social Democrats 	Omar Wahed 	44,118 	36.20 	–3.11
 	Greens 	Jim Watkins 	11,456 	9.40 	–5.69
 	Pirate 	Melanie Liu 	9,518 	7.81 	+7.81
 	Christian Alliance 	Richard Shimomura 	4,290 	3.52 	–1.49
 	Independent 	Huizhong Jin 	3,717 	3.05 	+1.40
 	Libertarian 	Philip Savage 	1,085 	0.89 	+0.89
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	121,874 	97.74 	+0.53
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	2,815 	2.26 	–0.53
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	124,689 	95.47 	+1.56
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	Social Democrats 	Omar Wahed 	63,557 	52.15 	–1.67
 	Liberal 	John Murakami 	58,317 	47.85 	+1.67
 	Social Democrats hold 	Social Democrats hold 	Swing 	–1.67 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Longshan Prefecture
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