Mundaring was an

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of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of

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from 1974 to 1989. The district was located east of

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History

First created for the 1974 state election, the district's first member was

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, who had at that stage already served one term as the member for Toodyay. The district switched parties at the 1977 state election with the election of

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candidate

Tom Herzfeld Thomas Alexander Albert Herzfeld (born 29 January 1936) is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1977 to 1983, representing the seat of Mundaring. Herzfeld was born in B ...

. Herzfeld served two terms in parliament before being defeated by 16 votes by Labor candidate

Gavan Troy Gavan John Troy (born 31 May 1940) is a former Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1983 to 1993. He served as a minister in the governments of Brian Burke, Peter Dowding, an ...

at the 1983 state election. The result was challenged in the Court of Disputed Returns and the election was declared void, but Troy won the resulting by-election by a larger margin, and went on to serve as a minister in the

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, Dowding and

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governments from 1986 until 1991. Mundaring was abolished ahead of the 1989 state election and largely replaced by the new district of

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. Accordingly, Troy contested and won the new Swan Hills seat.

Members

Election results

{{Former electoral districts of Western Australia Mundaring