Albany was an electoral district of the Legislative Council of

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from 1870 to 1890, during the period when the Legislative Council was the sole chamber of the

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. Albany was one of the original ten Legislative Council districts created by the ''Legislative Council Act 1870'' (33 Vict, No. 13). The district's boundary ran north-east from

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to the junction of the Balgarup and

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, and then due east from the same junction to the coast. It was bordered by the district of Wellington to the north and the district of Vasse to the north-west.. The largest town within the district was its namesake, Albany, and there were few other gazetted settlements during the district's existence. Four men represented Albany in the Legislative Council between 1870 and 1890, with Sir

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serving the longest (from 1874 to 1889). All but one of Albany's MLCs –

John McKail John McKail (22 January 1810 – 6 August 1871) was an early settler of Western Australia. He was among the first arrivals in the Swan River Colony in 1829, but in 1835 was banished to Albany after trouble with the law. In Albany, he set up as ...

– went on to serve in the Legislative Assembly following the advent of responsible government in 1890.''The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition)''
, p. 370.

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