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The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as electorates or seats . The Electoral Distribution Act 1947 requires regular review of electoral boundaries, in order to keep the relative size of electorates within certain limits.
The Australian state of Western Australia is divided into 15 electoral divisions for the purposes of electing the Australian House of Representatives. At the 2022 federal election, the Australian Labor Party won 9 seats, the Liberal Party of Australia won 5 seats, and 1 seat was won by an independent. [1]
The current six regions of the Western Australian Legislative Council. The Western Australian Legislative Council was elected from six multi-member electoral regions, which are in turn composed of electoral districts which are used to elect the Legislative Assembly. The current number of electoral regions was established on 22 May 1989. [1]
Former electoral districts of Western Australia (1 C, 114 P) Pages in category "Electoral districts of Western Australia" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
Electoral results for the district of Mitchell (Western Australia) Electoral results for the district of Moore; Electoral results for the district of Morley; Electoral results for the district of Mount Burges; Electoral results for the district of Mount Hawthorn; Electoral results for the district of Mount Lawley
The lower houses of the parliaments of the states and territories of Australia are divided into electoral districts.Most electoral districts (except the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania, which have multi-member electorates using a proportional voting method) send a single member to a state or territory's parliament using the preferential method of voting.
The second feature is malapportionment, which until 2008 was a significant feature of the Western Australian political landscape. Seats in metropolitan and rural areas did not contain the same number of electors—as at 30 September 2007, a Member of the Legislative Assembly represented either 28,519 metropolitan voters within the Metropolitan ...
After the 2019 redistribution, the electoral district now consists of the following areas of Two Rocks, Yanchep, Egliton, Alkimos, Butler, Jindalee, Merriwa, Ridgewood and Nowergup with the boundaries of Butler stretching from the western coastal boundary of the City of Wanneroo to its northern limits of Two Rocks and bounded in the south by ...