The South Metropolitan Region is a multi-member electoral region of the
Western Australia
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n
Legislative Council, located in the southern suburbs of
Perth
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, Western Australia. 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.
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 16 members. Four of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—
Clive Griffiths and
Phillip Pendal
Phillip George Pendal (4 February 1947 – 3 June 2008) was a Liberal and later Independent Western Australian politician, an opponent of abortion rights, and historian.
Early life
Born in Bunbury, Western Australia, Phillip Pendal was raised an ...
(both
South Central Metropolitan),
John Halden (
North Metropolitan) and
Garry Kelly (
South Metropolitan).
Election Results
2021
2017
References
{{Electoral regions of Western Australia
South Metropolitan