Lower Central Province

The Lower Central Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the South West and Great Southern regions of the state. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963, and became effective on 22 May 1965. Although initially a safe seat for the Country Party, it usually only contained one safe Assembly seat for that party, and by 1983, the Liberal Party were able to maintain both seats comfortably.

In 1989, the province was abolished by the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987, and was divided between the Agricultural and South West regions under the new proportional voting system.

## Geography

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The province was made up of several complete Legislative Assembly districts, which changed at each distribution.

Redistribution | Period | Electoral districts | Electors | % of State

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1963–64  | 22 May 1965 – 22 May 1968  |

Collie, Katanning, Narrogin

| 15,722  | 4.24
1966  | 22 May 1968 – 22 May 1974  | 17,139  | 4.14
1972  | 22 May 1974 – 22 May 1977  |

Collie, Katanning, Warren

| 23,075  | 4.19
1976  | 22 May 1977 – 22 May 1983  | 24,536  | 3.88
1982  | 22 May 1983 – 22 May 1989  |

Collie, Narrogin, Warren

| 25,297  | 3.56

## Representation

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### Members

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Member 1 | Party | Term |  | Member 2 | Party | Term

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Thomas Perry |   | Country | 1965–1977  |   | Sydney Thompson |   | Country | 1965–1974
Sandy Lewis[1] |   | Liberal | 1974–1988  |   | Winifred Piesse |   | National (NCP) | 1977–1983
| Bill Stretch |   | Liberal | 1983–1989
| Ind. Lib.  | 1988–1989  |

1 Sandy Lewis resigned from the Liberal Party in March 1986 following the decision by the Shadow Ministry to appoint standing committee chairmen from amongst its own numbers. He rejoined the party in October 1986, but left again after failing to be preselected in mid-1988.

## References

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* Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-3641-4.

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Electoral provinces of Western Australia, 1965–1989

Metropolitan|

* Metropolitan
* East Metropolitan (1977–1983)
* North Metropolitan
* North Central Metropolitan (1983–1989)
* North-East Metropolitan
* South Metropolitan
* South Central Metropolitan (1983–1989)
* South-East Metropolitan

Rural|

* Central
* Lower Central
* Lower North
* Lower West
* North
* South
* South-East
* South-West
* Upper West
* West

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