Central Murchison was an

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of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of

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from 1897 to 1901. The district was located in the Western Australian

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. It existed for one term of parliament, and was created due to the large temporary population brought to the area by the brief Murchison gold rush. In 1898, it included the towns of Cue,

Day Dawn Day Dawn is a ghost town in the Mid West (Western Australia), Mid West/upper Murchison River (Western Australia), Murchison region of Western Australia. It was a significant mining town and mine in the late nineteenth century. Located a short ...

, Cuddingwarra,

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, and

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. Its only member was

Frederick Illingworth Frederick Illingworth (24 September 1844 – 8 September 1908), Australian politician, was a Member of Parliament in two Australian states, and a government minister in Western Australia. As a financier of land speculation in Victoria in the 1 ...

, a senior Opposition politician. When the district was abolished ahead of the 1901 state election, Illingworth instead won election to the seat of Cue.

Members for Central Murchison

Election results

References

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