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Electoral district of Central Kimberley-Pilbara
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Central Kimberley-Pilbara is an Electoral district of Western Australia. As in other districts, the Central Kimberley-Pilbara district elects a single person to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The elected person is then known as the Member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara, and is said to hold the seat of Central Kimberley-Pilbara. As of 2005, the Member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara is Tom Stephens who holds the seat for the Labor Party by a margin of 13.6%. The seat in 2009 is expected to be retained by the Labor Party.
The state's second largest electorate covering 600,038 km², an area twice the size of Victoria and Tasmania combined. It is an electorate in two parts, divided in the middle by the Great Sandy Desert. In the north it includes Halls Creek and Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley, though the largest proportion of the electorate's population lies west of the desert in the Pilbara at Port Hedland, Tom Price, Paraburdoo and Pannawonica.
Pilbara had existed as an electorate since 1894, and has normally been a Labor seat, last held by the Liberal Party during the time of Charles Court 1974-83. It was won by Labor's Pam Buchanan on the election of the Burke government in 1983, though she moved to the new seat of Ashburton in 1989. She was succeeded by Larry Graham, who represented the seat for Labor until resigning from the party in 1999 after losing pre-selection. He contested the 2001 election as an Independent, winning 54.6% of the primary vote, more than twice that of the officially endorsed Labor candidate.
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Albany | Alfred Cove | Armadale | Avon | Balcatta | Ballajura | Bassendean | Belmont | Bunbury | Capel | Carine | Central Kimberley-Pilbara | Churchlands | Cockburn | Collie-Wellington | Cottesloe | Darling Range | Dawesville | Fremantle | Geraldton | Greenough | Girrawheen | Hillarys | Joondalup | Kalgoorlie | Kenwick | Kimberley | Kingsley | Leschenault | Mandurah | Maylands | Merredin | Midland | Mindarie | Moore | Murchison-Eyre | Murdoch | Murray | Nedlands | North West Coastal | Peel | Perth | Riverton | Rockingham | Roe | Serpentine-Jarrahdale | Southern River | South Perth | Stirling | Swan Hills | Vasse | Victoria Park | Wagin | Wanneroo | Warren-Blackwood | Willagee | Yokine |
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Brown Hill | Brown Hill-Ivanhoe | Central Murchison | Coolgardie North-east | Ivanhoe | Leederville | Nannine | Roebourne | Subiaco | South Murchison |
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