The Agricultural Region was a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian
Legislative Council
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, located in the
South West
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Geography
*South West Queensland, Australia
*South West (Weste ...
,
Peel
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Places Australia
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Canada
* Peel Parish, New Brunswick
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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
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, which changed at each distribution.
Representation
Distribution of seats
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
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, and one from the
Upper West Province
The Upper West Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the Mid West region of the state. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the ''Constitution Acts Am ...
.
Election results
References
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Agricultural
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...