Shire of Leonora

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name =Shire of Leonora
state =wa
region =Goldfields-Esperance
area =32189.3
seat =Leonora
pop =1,412 (2006 census)
density =


imagesize = 180
caption = Location in Western Australia
logo =
logosize =
url =http://www.Leonora.wa.gov.au
mayor =Graham Dawes
fedgov =Kalgoorlie
stategov =Kalgoorlie
near-nw = Wiluna
near-n = Wiluna
near-ne = Laverton
near-w = Sandstone
near-e = Laverton
near-sw = Menzies
near-s = Menzies
near-se = Menzies

The Shire of Leonora is a Local Government Area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, about convert|240|km|mi|0 north of the city of Kalgoorlie and about convert|830|km|mi|0 northeast of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of convert|32189|km2|sqmi|0, and its seat of government is the town of Leonora.

History

Leonora started as part of the North Coolgardie Road Board's area when that entity was gazetted in 1898. The town of Leonora was gazetted as a municipality with its own mayor in 1900. In 1912, the North Coolgardie Road Board was dissolved and the Mount Malcolm, Kookynie and Menzies Road Boards were formed.

Mount Malcolm absorbed the Leonora Municipal Council in 1917 and became the Leonora-Mount Malcolm Road Board. In 1929, a neighbouring district, Lawlers, was dissolved and split between Mount Margaret (later Laverton) and Leonora-Mount Malcolm, which was renamed to simply Leonora a year later. On 1 July 1961, it became the Leonora Shire Council following changes to the Local Government Act. [WA Electoral Commission, "Municipality Boundary Amendments Register" (release 2.0), 31 May 2003.]

Wards

As of the 2003 election, the shire is divided into two wards:

* North Ward (4 councillors)
* South Ward (5 councillors)

From 1979 until 2003, the shire was divided into Leonora (3), Leinster (4) and Country (2) wards.

Towns/Localities

* Leonora
* Agnew
* Lake Darlot
* Lawlers
* Leinster
* Mount Malcolm
* Murrin Murrin
* Sir Samuel

References

External links

* [http://www.leonora.wa.gov.au/ Shire of Leonora]