Electoral district of North West

Electoral district of North West

North West Coastal is an Electoral district of Western Australia. As in other districts, the North West Coastal district elects a single person to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The elected person is then known as the Member for North West Coastal, and is said to hold the seat of North West Coastal. As of 2001, the Member for North West Coastal is Fred Riebeling who holds the seat for the Labor Party by a margin of 3.7%. The seat in 2009 is expected to be retained by the Labor Party.

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An electorate stretching along the north west coast of the state from the Murchison River to east of Roebourne. The largest centres are at opposites ends of the electorate, Carnarvon in the south and Karratha in the north, the electorate also including Denham, Coral Bay, Exmouth, Onslow, Dampier and Roebourne. After Kalgoorlie, the smallest of the Mining and Pastoral region seats at 151,465 km², but still larger than electorates in any other region.

There are five candidates for the 2008 election.

Lex Fullarton Independent [http://arfullarton.bigpondhosting.com/index.html] .

Peter Shaw The Greens (WA).

Vincent Catania Australian Labor Party.

Rod Sweetman Liberal Party.

Tom Day The Nationals.


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