Electoral district of Kalgoorlie

This article is about the Western Australian state electorate. For the Australian federal electorate, see Division of Kalgoorlie.

Kalgoorlie Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
State	Western Australia
Dates current	1901–present
MP	Wendy Duncan
Party	Nationals
Namesake	Kalgoorlie
Area	632,816 km² (244,331.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Mining and Pastoral

Kalgoorlie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

The district includes not only the town of Kalgoorlie, but significant parts of the outback in central and eastern Western Australia.

Long a Labor stronghold, the district has more recently become a very competitive seat between the two conservative parties.

History

The district of Kalgoorlie was first created for the 1901 state election and has continued to exist as an electorate ever since. Over its first 100 years it was always represented by the Labor Party with the exception of two interruptions between 1905 and 1911 and 1921 and 1923.

Labor has not held the seat since 2001 when Liberal Party candidate Matt Birney defeated incumbent MP Megan Anwyl at the 2001 state election. Oddly, this was also an election that brought Labor into government. Indeed, Anwyl was the only Labor MP to lose her seat at that election.

Geography

Always based on the town of Kalgoorlie, the redistribution ahead of the 2008 state election saw a significant expansion of the seat to include remote areas to the north and north-east of the town. This was made necessary by one vote, one value electoral reform which meant that, where previously all non-metropolitan districts could have significantly lower enrolment than their metropolitan (i.e. Perth) counterparts, now the only districts permitted to contain low enrolment are those that cover vast geographical areas. So whilst most of its population is based in the town of Kalgoorlie, the district also includes remote communities such as Laverton, Leinster, Leonora, Menzies, Sandstone, Warburton and Wiluna.

Members for Kalgoorlie

	Party	Term
William Dartnell Johnson	Labour	1901–1905
Norbert Keenan	Ministerial	1905–1911
Albert Green	Labour	1911–1913
George McLeod	Labor	1914
Albert Green	Labor	1914–1921
John Boyland	Ind. Nationalist	1921–1922
James Cunningham	Labor	1923–1936
Herbert Styants	Labor	1936–1956
Tom Evans	Labor	1956–1980
Edward Evans	Labor	1980–1981
Ian Taylor	Labor	1981–1996
Megan Anwyl	Labor	1996–2001
Matt Birney	Liberal	2001–2008
John Bowler	Independent	2008–2013
Wendy Duncan	National	2013–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Kalgoorlie

Western Australian state election, 2013: Kalgoorlie
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Melissa Price	3,748	37.3	+12.6
	National	Wendy Duncan	3,717	37.0	+18.0
	Labor	Terrence Winner	1,928	19.2	+1.6
	Greens	Tim Hall	450	4.5	0.0
	Christians	Ross Patterson	202	2.0	+2.0
Total formal votes			10,045	94.3	0.0
Informal votes			602	5.7	0.0
Turnout			10,647	80.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Melissa Price	6,715	66.9	+7.1
	Labor	Terrence Winner	3,324	33.1	–7.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
	National	Wendy Duncan	5,651	56.3	+9.8
	Liberal	Melissa Price	4,379	43.7	+43.7
	National gain from Independent		Swing	+16.1

References

External links

ABC Election Profiles: 2005 2008
WAEC District Maps: 1996–2005 2005–2008 2008–

Electoral districts of Western Australia

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