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| South Metropolitan Region | |
| State: | wa |
| Created: | 1989 |
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| Electors: | 449182 |
| Electors Year: | 2021 |
| Area: | 799 |
| Class: | Metropolitan |
The South Metropolitan Region is 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.
Legislation to abolish the region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions was passed in November 2021, with the 2025 state election to use a single state-wide electorate of 37 members.[1]
The Region is 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 | width = 200 | Applecross, Cockburn, Fremantle, Jandakot, Melville, Peel, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Victoria Park (10) | align=right | 195,574 | align=right | 21.51% | align=right | 590km2 | |
| 28 November 1994 | 22 May 1997 – 22 May 2005 | width = 200 | Alfred Cove, Cockburn, Fremantle, Murdoch, Peel, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Victoria Park,Electoral district of Willagee (10) | align=right | 221,337 | align=right | 21.61% | align=right | 590km2 | |
| 4 August 2003 | 22 May 2005 – 22 May 2009 | width = 200 | Alfred Cove, Cockburn, Fremantle, Murdoch, Peel, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Victoria Park,Electoral district of Willagee (10) | align=right | 263,620 | align=right | 21.69% | align=right | 577km2 | |
| 29 October 2007[2] | 22 May 2009 – 22 May 2017 | width = 200 | Alfred Cove, Bateman, Cannington, Cockburn, Fremantle, Jandakot, Kwinana, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Southern River, Victoria Park,Warnbro,Willagee (14) | align=right | 311,583 | align=right | 26.09% | align=right | 754km2 | |
| 27 November 2015[3] | 22 May 2017 – 22 May 2021 | width = 200 | Baldivis, Bateman, Bicton, Cannington, Cockburn, Fremantle, Jandakot, Kwinana, Riverton, Rockingham, South Perth, Southern River, Victoria Park,Warnbro,Willagee (15) | align=right | 409,325 | align=right | 25.69% | align=right | 753km2 | |
| 27 November 2019[4] | 22 May 2021 – 22 May 2025 | width = 200 | As per 2015 | align=right | 449,182 | align=right | 26.16% | align=right | 799km2 |
| Election | Seats won | ||||||||||
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| 1989–1993 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | ||||||
| 1993–1997 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | ||||||
| 1997–2001 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | ||||||
| 2001–2005 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | ||||||
| 2005–2009 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | ||||||
| Election | Seats won | ||||||||||||
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| 2009–2013 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | |||||||
| 2013–2017 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | |||||||
| 2017–2021 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | |||||||
| 2021–2025 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | |||||||
| width=15 | Labor | ||
| width=15 | Liberal | ||
| width=15 | Greens WA | ||
| width=15 | Liberal Democrats |
Since its creation, the electorate has 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 | Cheryl Davenport | Labor | John Halden | Labor | Garry Kelly | Labor | Phillip Pendal | Liberal | Clive Griffiths | Liberal | ||||||||
| 1993 | Diane Airey | Liberal | ||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | 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 | Lynn MacLaren | Greens | Phil Edman | Liberal | Nick Goiran | Liberal | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Pierre Yang | Labor | Aaron Stonehouse | Liberal Democratic | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Klara Andric | Labor | Stephen Pratt | Labor | Brad Pettitt | Greens | ||||||||||||
See main article: Electoral results for the South Metropolitan Region.