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Area (sq km): 536,571
Number of Electors: 15,735
Source:
Western Australian Electoral Commission.Origin of the Name:
Named after the Kimberley District. Following discovery of the district by Alexander Forrest in 1879 it was decided to open the new district for settlement. The Governor, Sir William Robinson, sent copies of suggested land regulations to the Earl of Kimberley, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and in his dispatch said that it was proposed that the new country should be called the Kimberley District. This name was approved by the Earl of Kimberley in a telegram dated 26 August 1880.
Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places.
Suburbs and Towns within the electorate:
Bilingurr; Broome; Cable Beach; Camballin; Cambridge Gulf; Dampier Peninsula; Derby; Djugun; Drysdale River; Durack; Eighty Mile Beach; Fitzroy Crossing; Geegully Creek; Gibb; Gibson Desert North; Gingerah; Halls Creek; Jarlmadangah Burru; Kalumburu; Kimbolton; Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges ; Kundat Djaru; Kununurra; Kupartiya; Lagrange; Lake Argyle; McBeath; Meda; Minyirr; Mitchell Plateau; Mt Hardman; Mueller Ranges; Oombulgurri; Ord River; Purnululu; Roebuck; St George Ranges; Sturt Creek; Tanami; Warmun; Waterbank; Willare; Wyndham
* = Suburb/Town split between more than one Electorate.
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.