Electoral regions of Western Australia

A map of the electoral regions at the 2021 state election.

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)[1]
Electors
(2017)
№ Legislative
Assembly districts
(2017)[2]
Current seat distribution (2021)
Agricultural 1989 281,264 km2 (108,597 sq mi) 101,229 4            
East Metropolitan 1989 3,697 km2 (1,427 sq mi)* 362,932 14            
Mining and Pastoral 1989 2,200,083 km2 (849,457 sq mi) 96,894 4            
North Metropolitan 1989 929 km2 (359 sq mi)* 362,608 14            
South Metropolitan 1989 754 km2 (291 sq mi)* 377,634 15            
South West 1989 44,870 km2 (17,320 sq mi) 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 200,091 km2 (77,256 sq mi) 4            
East Metropolitan 1989 3,697 km2 (1,427 sq mi) 14            
Mining and Pastoral 1989 2,280,730 km2 (880,590 sq mi) 5            
North Metropolitan 1989 929 km2 (359 sq mi) 14            
South Metropolitan 1989 754 km2 (291 sq mi) 14            
South West 1989 41,008 km2 (15,833 sq mi) 8            
Total 59

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Related pages

References

  1. "Districts in the Country Regions | Electoral Boundaries WA". Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  2. "2015 Final Boundaries by Region and District". Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2023.