The Electoral district of Wembley was 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

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 in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Western Australia

Western Australia

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. The district was named for the inner western Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 suburb of Wembley

Wembley, Western Australia

Wembley is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Town of Cambridge. Its postcode is 6014.The main streets in Wembley are Cambridge Street, Harborne Street, Grantham Street and Selby Street. It is an upper middle class, medium-density suburb. Wembley is home to Bold Park...

, which fell within its borders.

Wembley was largely created out of the abolished Leederville

Electoral district of Leederville

The Electoral district of Leederville was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. The district was named for the inner northern Perth suburb of Leederville, which fell within its borders...

 and metropolitan sections of Wembley Beaches

Electoral district of Wembley Beaches

The Electoral district of Wembley Beaches was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. The district was named for the inner western Perth suburb of Wembley, which fell within its borders....

 by a redistribution prior to the 1962 election

Western Australian state election, 1962

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 31 March 1962 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Liberal-Country coalition government, led by Premier Sir David Brand, won a second term in office against the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Bert Hawke.The election...

, and was held by the Liberal

Liberal Party of Australia

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 for its entire duration. The seat was abolished ahead of the 1974 election

Western Australian state election, 1974

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 30 March 1974 to elect all 51 members to the Legislative Assembly and 15 members to the 30-seat Legislative Council...

, and the last member for Wembley, Ray Young

Ray Young (politician)

Raymond Laurence Young was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1983....

, contested and won the seat of Scarborough

Electoral district of Scarborough

Scarborough is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.The district is a coastal electorate based in the northern suburbs of Perth and is named for the suburb of Scarborough...

.

Members for Wembley

Member		Party	Term
	Guy Henn	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...	1962–1971
	Ray Young Ray Young (politician) Raymond Laurence Young was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1983....	Liberal	1971–1974