The South West Region is a multi-member electoral region of the
Western Australia
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n
Legislative Council the
South West
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,
Peel and part of the
Great Southern regions of the state. It was created by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and became effective on 22 May 1989 with seven members who had been elected at the
1989 state election three months earlier. At the
2008 election, it was reduced to six members. The region includes the cities of
Albany,
Bunbury and
Mandurah
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Mandurah's ...
.
Legislation to abolish the region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions was passed in November 2021, with the
2025 state election to use a single state-wide electorate of 37 members.
Geography
The Region is made up of several complete
Legislative Assembly districts
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, which change at each distribution.
Representation
Distribution of seats
Members
Since its creation, the electorate has had 17 members. Four of these members had previously been members of the Legislative Council—
Beryl Jones
Beryl Lillian Jones (née Davies; born 30 July 1932) is a former Australian politician who was a Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council of Western ...
(
Lower West Province),
Bill Stretch (
Lower Central Province
The Lower Central Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, located in the South West (Western Australia), South West and Great Southern (Western Australia), ...
),
Doug Wenn
Douglas William Wenn (3 May 1948 – 8 November 2022) was an Australian politician.
Born in Bunbury, Western Australia to waterside worker John Douglas Wenn and Phyllis (nee) Gilders. At the age of 13 He left school in 1962 to become a painter a ...
and
Barry House (both
South West Province).
Election Results
2021
2017
References
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