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.

List
At the 2021 state election, there were six electoral regions:

 Name  Est.  Area(2017)  Electors  (2017)  № Legislative Assembly districts (2017)  Current seat distribution (2021) Agricultural  1989    101,229  4             East Metropolitan  1989  *  362,932  14             Mining and Pastoral  1989    96,894  4             North Metropolitan  1989  *  362,608  14             South Metropolitan  1989 *  377,634  15              South West  1989    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    4             East Metropolitan  1989    14             Mining and Pastoral  1989    5              North Metropolitan  1989    14             South Metropolitan  1989    14             South West  1989    8             Total  59

Legend:

   Labor    Liberal   National   Greens   Shooters and Fishers

Related pages
 Electoral regions of Victoria
 Tasmanian Legislative Council electoral divisions

References


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