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South Metropolitan Region

Field	Value
upper	yes
name	South Metropolitan Region
state	wa
image	WA Election 2021 - South Metropolitan Region.png
electors	449182
electors_year	2021
area	799
class	Metropolitan
coordinates
lifespan	1989-2025

| mp-party = The South Metropolitan Region was a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It was created by the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was increased to six members.

The region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions, was abolished in time with the 2025 state election, following legislation passed in November 2021 to create a single, state-wide constituency of 37 members.

Geography

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

Redistribution	Period	Electoral districts	Electors	% of State	Area
29 April 1988	22 May 1989 – 22 May 1997		195,574	21.51%	590 km2
28 November 1994	22 May 1997 – 22 May 2005		221,337	21.61%	590 km2
4 August 2003	22 May 2005 – 22 May 2009		263,620	21.69%	577 km2
29 October 2007	22 May 2009 – 22 May 2017		311,583	26.09%	754 km2
27 November 2015	22 May 2017 – 22 May 2021		409,325	25.69%	753 km2
title=2019 Review of Western Australia’s Electoral Boundaries	url=https://www.boundaries.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/2019%20Nov%20Final%20Distribution%20Report.pdf	publisher=Electoral Boundaries WA	access-date=6 April 2021}}	22 May 2021 – 22 May 2025		449,182	26.16%	799 km2

Representation

Distribution of seats

Election	Seats won
	1989–1993	Labor}}
	1993–1997	Labor}}
	1997–2001	Labor}}
	2001–2005	Labor}}
	2005–2009	Labor}}

Election	Seats won
	2009–2013	Labor}}
	2013–2017	Labor}}
	2017–2021	Labor}}
	2021–2025	Labor}}

Liberal Democrats}}		Liberal Democrats

Members

Since its creation, the electorate had 16 members. Four of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—Clive Griffiths and Phillip Pendal (both South Central Metropolitan), John Halden (North Metropolitan) and Garry Kelly (South Metropolitan).

Year	Member	Party	Member	Party	Member	Party	Member	Party	Member	Party	Member	Party
1989	Labor}}		Cheryl Davenport	Labor	Labor}}		John Halden	Labor	Labor}}		Garry Kelly	Labor	Liberal}}	Phillip Pendal	Liberal
1993	Diane Airey	Liberal
1993	Greens}}		Jim Scott	Greens	Barbara Scott	Liberal
1996	Simon O'Brien	Liberal
2000	Graham Giffard	Labor
2001	Kate Doust	Labor	Sue Ellery	Labor
2005	Lynn MacLaren	Greens
2005			Sheila Mills	Labor
2008	Greens}}		Lynn MacLaren	Greens	Phil Edman	Liberal	Liberal}}		Nick Goiran	Liberal
2013
2017	Labor}}		Pierre Yang	Labor			Aaron Stonehouse	Liberal Democratic
2021	Klara Andric	Labor	Labor}}		Stephen Pratt	Labor	Greens}}		Brad Pettitt	Greens
2025	Victoria Helps	Labor

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the South Metropolitan Region

References

(2025-02-08). "Scrapping region-based voting in WA could have unintended consequences". ABC News.
(29 April 1988). "Electoral Districts Act 1947-1985 - Order in Council".
(28 November 1994). "Electoral Distributions Act 1947 - Division of the State into Six Electoral Regions and 57 Electoral Districts by the Electoral Distribution Commissioners".
(4 August 2003). "Electoral Distributions Act 1947 - Division of the State into Electoral Regions and Districts by the Electoral Distribution Commissioners".
Western Australian Electoral Commission (WAEC). (29 October 2007). "South Metropolitan Region Profile".
Western Australian Electoral Commission (WAEC). (27 November 2017). "South Metropolitan Region".
"2019 Review of Western Australia’s Electoral Boundaries". Electoral Boundaries WA.

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