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Electoral boundaries are determined by the Western Australian Electoral Commission. Electoral districts are subdivisions of electoral regions for the Legislative Council and have approximately an equal number of electors. The last electoral redistribution was completed in November 2019 and was first applied in the 2021 state election. [1] [2]
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]
The Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Equality) Bill 2021 was passed in November 2021 and established a "one vote, one value" system in the Legislative Council for the first time. The electoral regions were abolished and replaced by a single state-wide electorate of 37 members, while GVTs were replaced by optional preferential voting.
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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Western Australian state electoral results by district" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...