A Western Australian Federal Labor MP is pushing for greater "national recognition" of the late, great Indigenous football icon Graham "Polly" Farmer as the state prepares for its 16th seat in Parliament.

Following population shifts in recent years, the Electoral Commission is due to add a 16th division in WA is due before the 2025 federal election.

MP for Perth, Patrick Gorman, has urged the commission to consider naming the seat after one of the state's most revered sporting figures.

Farmer's name already adorns some honours in the state, including the Graham Farmer Freeway which ducks under the Perth CBD, but Mr Gorman believes his legacy as footballer both in WA and Victoria serves for greater recognition.

"We've got the Polly pipe and that's important recognition in my electorate of Perth for this great Australian footballer, but if you want to get some recognition on the national stage, which I think is appropriate given he was captain of Geelong - one of their greats, inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame, he played for so many years here in WA, I think it's appropriate there's some national recognition and this is a great opportunity to have an electorate named Farmer in his honour," Mr Gorman said on Perth's 6PR radio.

Farmer played in five WAFL (then-WANFL) premierships between stints at East Perth and West Perth and achieved premiership success with Geelong during his period in the VFL.

He won 10 best-and-fairest's between the three clubs and took home three Sandover Medals as well as a Brownlow as the respective league's over a season and achieved success as a coach across his decades-long career in footy.

The Noongar champion was inducted as an inaugural 'legend' in the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was named captain of the Indigenous Team of the Century in 2005.

"He is one of the greatest footballers ever to play in the AFL," Mr Gorman said of Farmer in Canberra on Thursday, according to AAP.

Mr Gorman said the new seat could be redistributed anywhere in WA, but that Farmer's name fits the bill in any case.

"If you look at what the Electoral Commission have been looking to do that is recognise Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage in the naming of our seats, this was just the obvious choice," he told 6PR.

The member for Perth told reporters in Canberra "we're greatly under-recognising this incredible Australian" in light of his work with the Polly Farmer Foundation.

PFF has empowered Indigenous young people through education for more than 25 years.

Farmer life was honoured with a state funeral after his passing in 2019, aged 84.