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Electoral district of Roe
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Roe is an Electoral district of Western Australia. As in other districts, the Roe district elects a single person to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The elected person is then known as the Member for Roe, and is said to hold the seat of Roe. As of 2005, the Member for Roe is Graham Jacobs who holds the seat for the Liberal Party by a margin of 5.6%. The seat will be strongly contested seat in 2009 by the Liberal and National Parties, Labor preferences could effect the outcome.
On the western edge of the Great Australian Bight, more than a third of the electorate is made up by the town of Esperance. Other major centres include Gnowangerup, Kulin, Lake Grace, Bremer Bay and Ravensthorpe. The largest Agricultural region electorate at 87,975 km², it is larger in area than Tasmania, and includes a third of the Agricultural Region or 3.4% of the land area of the state.
Graham Jacobs was the Liberal Party candidate on the last occasion Roe was an open contest in 1989. Then the Liberal Party polled 42.3% of the vote to the Nationals 34.0%, but the seat was decided by Labor preferences which flowed overwhelmingly to the National Party. In 1993 there was again a three-cornered contest, but the Nationals outpolled the Liberals two to one. In 1996, the National Party came under challenge from two Independents with covert support from local Liberal Party branches, but the Nationals vote remained unchanged at 53.6%. In 2001, Ainsworth again had two challengers, this time One Nation and the Liberal Party, both of whom polled 21% of the vote.
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