Ashburton was an

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of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of

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from 1890 to 1901 and again from 1989 to 1996. The district was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 election. It was located in the remote north-west of the state. In 1898, the district's main settlement was the town of Onslow; it also included various pastoral leases along the

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. The seat was abolished ahead of the 1901 election. Revived for the 1989 election, Ashburton was won by

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candidate

Pam Buchanan Pamela Ann Buchanan (née Slocombe; 6 February 1937 – 31 March 1992) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia between 1983 and 1992. She represented the Labor Party for the majority of h ...

, previously the member for

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. Buchanan, by this time an independent, resigned the seat in 1991 due to ill-health, triggering a by-election won by Labor candidate

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. The district was abolished ahead of the 1996 election and Riebeling shifted to the new seat of Burrup at that election.

Members for Ashburton

Election results

References

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