The Agricultural Region was a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the South West, 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 five members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was increased to six members.
The region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions, was abolished in time with the 2025 state election, following legislation passed in November 2021 to create a single, state-wide constituency of 37 members.
Geography The Region was made up of several complete Legislative Assembly districts, which changed at each distribution.
RedistributionPeriodElectoral districtsElectors% of state electorsArea 29 April 1988 22 May 1989 – 22 May 1997Avon, Geraldton, Greenough, Merredin, Moore, Roe, Wagin (7) 80,626 8.89% 28 November 1994 22 May 1997 – 22 May 2005 As per 1988 87,137 8.27% 4 August 2003 22 May 2005 – 22 May 2009 As per 1988 94,877 7.81% 29 October 2007 22 May 2009 – 22 May 2017Central Wheatbelt, Geraldton, Moore, Wagin (4) 82,479 6.56% 27 November 2015 22 May 2017 – 22 May 2021Central Wheatbelt, Geraldton, Moore, Roe (4) 102,748 6.45% 27 November 2019 22 May 2021 – 22 May 2025As per 2015 103,378 6.02%
Representation
Distribution of seats
As 5-member seat:
Election Seats won 1989–1993 1993–1997 1997–2001 2001–2005 2005–2009
As 6-member seat:
Election Seats won 2009–2013 2013–2017 2017–2021 2021–2025 Legend:
Labor Liberal National Greens One Nation Shooters, Fishers and Farmers
Members Since its creation, the electorate had 25 members, only seven of whom were or are not from either the Liberal or National parties. All five of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—two from the South Province, one from the Central Province, one from the South-East Province, and one from the Upper West Province.
+ Members for Agricultural Region YearMember PartyMember PartyMember PartyMember PartyMember PartyMember Party 1989 Jim Brown LaborMargaret McAleerLiberalDavid WordsworthLiberalEric CharltonNationalsJohn CaldwellNationals 1992Kim ChanceLabor 1993Murray NixonLiberalBruce DonaldsonLiberalMurray CriddleNationals 1996 1998 Dexter Davies Nationals 2001Dee MargettsGreensFrank Hough One Nation 2004 New Country 2005 Margaret Rowe LiberalAnthony FelsLiberal 2007Brian EllisLiberal 2008 Family First Wendy Duncan Nationals 2008Matt Benson-LidholmLaborJim ChownLiberalPhilip Gardiner NationalsMia DaviesNationalsMax Trenorden Nationals 2012IndependentIndependent 2013Martin AldridgeNationals 2013Darren WestLaborRick MazzaShooters, Fishers, Farmers Paul Brown Nationals 2017 Laurie Graham LaborColin de GrussaNationals 2021 Shelley Payne Labor Sandra Carr Labor Steve Martin Liberal
Election results
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