Electoral regions of Western Australia
In Western Australian politics, an electoral region was a region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Western Australian Parliament. The system was created in 1989. They will be abolished at the 2025 state election, after reforms by the Labor government of Mark McGowan and Roger Cook. Instead of the Legislative Council being elected from different regions like in Victoria, they will be elected from the state as a whole like in New South Wales and South Australia.
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At the 2021 state election, there were six electoral regions:
| Name | Est. | Area (2017)[1] |
Electors (2017) |
№ Legislative Assembly districts (2017)[2] |
Current seat distribution (2021) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural | 1989 | 281,264 km2 (108,597 sq mi) | 101,229 | 4 | ||||||
| East Metropolitan | 1989 | 3,697 km2 (1,427 sq mi)* | 362,932 | 14 | ||||||
| Mining and Pastoral | 1989 | 2,200,083 km2 (849,457 sq mi) | 96,894 | 4 | ||||||
| North Metropolitan | 1989 | 929 km2 (359 sq mi)* | 362,608 | 14 | ||||||
| South Metropolitan | 1989 | 754 km2 (291 sq mi)* | 377,634 | 15 | ||||||
| South West | 1989 | 44,870 km2 (17,320 sq mi) | 205,270 | 8 | ||||||
| Total | 1,506,567 | 59 | ||||||||
Note: The metropolitan regions (marked *) use the 2013 area information.
The structure of the regions prior to the 2015 redistribution was as follows:
| Name | Est. | Area (2013) |
№ Legislative Assembly districts (2013) |
Distribution of seats (2013) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural | 1989 | 200,091 km2 (77,256 sq mi) | 4 | ||||||
| East Metropolitan | 1989 | 3,697 km2 (1,427 sq mi) | 14 | ||||||
| Mining and Pastoral | 1989 | 2,280,730 km2 (880,590 sq mi) | 5 | ||||||
| North Metropolitan | 1989 | 929 km2 (359 sq mi) | 14 | ||||||
| South Metropolitan | 1989 | 754 km2 (291 sq mi) | 14 | ||||||
| South West | 1989 | 41,008 km2 (15,833 sq mi) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | 59 | ||||||||
Legend:
| Labor | Liberal | National | Greens | Shooters and Fishers |
Related pages[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Districts in the Country Regions | Electoral Boundaries WA". Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
- ↑ "2015 Final Boundaries by Region and District". Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2023.