The Electoral district of Albany is a Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....

 electorate

Electoral districts of Western Australia

The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as electorates or seats....

 in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

. Albany is named for the port and regional city of Western Australia which falls within its borders. It is one of the oldest electorates in Western Australia, with its first member having been elected in the inaugural 1890 elections of the Legislative Assembly. It is regarded as a swinging seat, and has been held by the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 since the 2001 election

Western Australian state election, 2001

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 10 February 2001 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

, at which the present Member, Peter Watson

Peter Watson (politician)

Peter Bruce Watson is an Australian politician. He has been an ALP member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since February 2001, representing the electorate of Albany....

, was first elected.

Geography

As at the 2007 redistribution, the electoral district of Albany has the same boundaries as the City of Albany

City of Albany

The City of Albany is a Local Government Area in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, about SSE of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It covers an area of , including the Greater Albany metropolitan area and the Port of Albany, as well as the surrounding agricultural district and...

, including Albany

Albany, Western Australia

Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....

 and its suburbs, the nearby towns of Elleker

Elleker, Western Australia

Elleker is a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, situated about west of the regional city of Albany.The town was planned by the Western Australian Land Company, who built the Great Southern Railway in 1886-1889. It was originally known as Lakeside, due to its proximity to...

, Kalgan

Kalgan, Western Australia

Kalgan in a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.The town is situated on the banks of the Kalgan River and was first known as Kalganup which mean "place of first camp" or "place of many waters". Indigenous Australians used the area as a meeting place up to 19,000 years ago...

, Lower King

Lower King, Western Australia

Lower King is a town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It is located 385 km south-east of Perth and the closest populated town is Albany....

, Torbay

Torbay, Western Australia

Torbay is a small township in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 25 kilometres west of Albany. There is a crater on Mars named after it....

. This represents a significant expansion of its boundaries, in part due to the "one-vote one-value" electoral legislation which largely abolished malapportionment between country and metropolitan electorates in the Legislative Assembly. Prior to 2007, the electorate was largely limited to Albany and its suburbs–the additional sections were within the now abolished electorate of Stirling

Electoral district of Stirling

Stirling was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1950 to 2008.The district was located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.-Geography:...

.

Members for Albany

Member		Party	Term
	Lancel de Hamel	Oppositionist	1890–1894
	George Leake George Leake George Leake CMG QC was Premier of Western Australia from 27 May 1901 to 21 November 1901, and again from 23 December 1901 until his death on 24 June 1902.-Early life:...	Oppositionist	1894–1900
	John Hassell	Oppositionist	1900–1901
	James Gardiner James Gardiner (Australian politician) The Hon. James Gardiner was treasurer of Western Australia from July 1902 to April 1904, and June 1917 to April 1919.-Early life:...	Oppositionist	1901–1904
	Charles Keyser Charles Keyser Charles Christopher Keyser was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1905.Born at a timber station in the Vasse, Charles Keyser was the son of American timber contractor and master builder Charles Donat Keyser. Apprenticed in the printing trade, he followed a variety...	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1904–1905
	Edward Barnett	Ministerialist	1905–1909
	William Price	Labor	1909–1917
	Herbert Robinson	Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...	1917–1919
	John Scaddan John Scaddan John Scaddan, CMG , popularly known as "Happy Jack", was Premier of Western Australia from 7 October 1911 until 27 July 1916.- Biography :...	Nationalist	1919–1920
		Country National Party of Western Australia The National Party of Western Australia is a political party in Western Australia. It is affiliated with the National Party of Australia but maintains a separate structure and identity....	1920–1923
		Country (MCP)	1923–1924
	Arthur Wansbrough	Labor	1924–1936
	Leonard Hill	Country	1936–1956
	Jack Hall	Labor	1956–1970
	Wyndham Cook	Labor	1970–1974
	Leon Watt	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1974–1993
	Kevin Prince Kevin Prince Kevin Prince is an American football quarterback. He played at Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California. He is a redshirt junior at UCLA, the starting quarterback for the team...	Liberal	1993–2001
	Peter Watson Peter Watson (politician) Peter Bruce Watson is an Australian politician. He has been an ALP member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since February 2001, representing the electorate of Albany....	Labor	2001–present

Election results

External links

• Electorate Profile (Antony Green, ABC)