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)^[1]	Electors (2017)	№ Legislative Assembly districts (2017)^[2]
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)
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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