Roe Western Australia—Legislative Assembly |
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Location of Roe (dark green) in Western Australia
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State | Western Australia |
Dates current | 1950–1983; 1989–2008; 2017–present |
MP | Peter Rundle |
Party | National |
Namesake | John Septimus Roe |
Electors | 26,192 (2017) |
Area | 106,409 km2 (41,084.7 sq mi) |
Demographic | Agricultural |
Roe is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It takes in rural areas in the south of the state. Roe was re-created for the 2017 state election, having previously been in existence from 1950 to 1983 and from 1989 to 2008. It has a notional 16.7-point majority for the National Party against the Liberal Party, based on the results of the 2013 state election.
In its current incarnation, Roe includes portions of four regions of Western Australia – the South West, the Wheatbelt, the Great Southern, and Goldfields-Esperance. There are eighteen local government areas that fall into the district: Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Cuballing, Dumbleyung, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Kulin, Lake Grace, Narrogin, Ravensthorpe, Wagin, West Arthur, Wickepin, Williams, and Woodanilling.