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The 2021 state election saw Labor win one of the most comprehensive victories on record at the state or territory level in Australia. It won 53 of the 59 seats, surpassing its own record set four years earlier for the largest government majority and seat tally in Western Australian parliamentary history.
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 ...
A redistribution of electoral boundaries in New South Wales and Western Australia was undertaken before the 2016 election. [33] The redistribution in New South Wales was announced on 16 October 2015, with the Labor-held Division of Hunter proposed to be abolished. [ 34 ]
2025 is the first election year in Western Australia where electoral reforms implemented in November 2021 will take effect for the Legislative Council.This reform eliminated seats in the Legislative Council, making each region more equal in size while creating a single electorate for all members elected under a one-vote, one-value system.
The seat is named after Vivian Bullwinkel, an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War who was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre. [4] [5]A number of objections were received to adoption of the name, as Bullwinkel had only a tenuous connection with Western Australia and no association with the area covered by the new division, and a local nurse from the Bangka ...
The 2021 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 13 March to elect members to the Parliament of ... taking into account the 2019 boundary redistribution.
The Division of Pearce is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia.It was created at the 1989 redistribution and named after George Pearce, the longest serving member of the Australian Senate, serving from 1901 to 1938.
This arrangement was changed to have each region return six members [2] for the 2008 Western Australian election. A redistribution of boundaries of and divisions in regions took place in 2015 and in 2019. The next redistribution will commence in March 2023 and is likely to be finalised by November of that year. [5]