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Bunbury Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
State or territory:	Western Australia
Dates current:	1890–present
MP:	John Castrilli
Party:	Liberal
Namesake:	Bunbury
Area:	66 km² (25 sq mi)
Demographic:	South West

Bunbury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

The district, taking in the city of Bunbury has existed continuously since 1890, being one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 state election.

[edit] Members for Bunbury

	Party	Term
John Forrest	Ministerial	1890–1901
Thomas Hayward	Ministerial	1901–1904
Newton Moore	Ministerial	1904–1911
William Thomas	Labor	1911–1917
William Thomas	National Labor	1917
Griffin Money	Nationalist	1917–1924
Frederick Withers	Labor	1924–1947
James Murray	Liberal	1947–1950
Frank Guthrie	Labor	1950–1955
George Roberts	Liberal	1955–1962
Maurice Williams	Liberal	1962–1973
John Sibson	Liberal	1973–1983
Phil Smith	Labor	1983–1993
Ian Osborne	Liberal	1993–2001
Tony Dean	Labor	2001–2005
John Castrilli	Liberal	2005–present

[edit] Election results

Western Australian state election, 2008: Bunbury^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Castrilli	9,400	53.58	+12.2
	Labor	Peter MacFarlane	5,192	29.60	-12.7
	Greens WA	Peter Eckersley	1,591	9.07	+3.0
	Family First Party	Mandy Roberts	1,009	5.75	+1.9
	Christian Democrats	Edward Dabrowski	351	2.00	+0.7
Total formal votes			17,543	95.35
Informal votes			856	4.65
Turnout			18,399	83.87
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	John Castrilli	10,825	61.73	+12.6
	Labor	Peter MacFarlane	6,711	38.27	-12.6
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+12.6

¹ The 2007 redistribution resulted in a notional Labor majority of 0.9%. Therefore, the swings presented are based on the ABC's calculation of redistributed results, rather than the actual results at the 2005 election.

[edit] External links

ABC Election Profiles: 2005 2008
WAEC District Maps: 1996–2005 2005–2008 2008–