The Mining and Pastoral Region is a multi-member electoral region of the

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n Legislative Council, located in the northern and eastern regions of the state. It was created by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was increased to six members.

Geography

The Region is made up of several complete Legislative Assembly

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, which change at each distribution.

Representation

Distribution of seats

Members

Since its creation, the electorate has had 24 members. All five of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—two from the

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, two from the North Province and one from the

South-East Province The South-East Province was an electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, introduced after the introduction of responsible government in the 1890s. It initially comprised Williams, Plantagenet The House of Plantagenet ( ...

References

{{Electoral regions of Western Australia Mining and Pastoral Constituencies established in 1989 1989 establishments in Australia