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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 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 ]
At present, there are 409 state electoral districts in Australia. State electoral districts do not apply to the upper house, or legislative council, in those states that have one (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia). In New South Wales and South Australia, MLCs represent the entire state, in Tasmania they ...
Kimberley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, located in the state's far north and named after the Kimberley region.The electorate has one of the highest Aboriginal enrolments of any seat in the Parliament.
The electoral district of Perth is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia.Perth is named for the capital city of Western Australia whose central business district falls within its borders.
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 .
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 ...