Murchison-Eyre was an
electoral district of the
Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of
Western Australia
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from 1890 to 1989 and again from 2005 to 2008.
Known as Murchison until 1968, it was one of the original 30 seats contested at the
1890 election. The district was located in the Western Australian outback. The seat was abolished ahead of the
1989 election
The following elections occurred in the year 1989.
Africa
* 1989 Beninese parliamentary election
* 1989 Botswana general election
* 1989 Equatorial Guinean presidential election
* 1989 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election
* 19 ...
.
Revived for the
2005 election, Murchison-Eyre was won by
Labor
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** Organized labour and the la ...
candidate
John Bowler, previously member for the abolished
Eyre. However, the district lasted just one term before it was abolished ahead of the
2008 election. Its former territory was divided between the districts of Eyre,
Kalgoorlie,
North West
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, and
Pilbara
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. Bowler, by this time an independent, successfully contested the seat of Kalgoorlie.
Members for Murchison-Eyre
Election results
External links
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