Kalgoorlie Australian House of Representatives Division | |
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![]() Division of Kalgoorlie (green) in Western Australia as at the 2007 election | |
Created | 1901 |
Abolished | 2010 |
Namesake | Kalgoorlie |
Electors | 80,773 |
Area | 2,295,354 km2 (886,241.1 sq mi) |
Demographic | Rural |
The Division of Kalgoorlie was an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia, named after the city of Kalgoorlie. The Division was proclaimed in 1900 as one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election in 1901. In its final form, it covered most of the land area of Western Australia, with a size of 2,295,354 square kilometres (886,241 sq mi)—over 90 percent of the state's landmass (an area the size of France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom combined).[1] It included the Goldfields-Esperance, Gascoyne, Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, in addition to the eastern and far northern parts of the Mid West region, and the town of Merredin. It was the largest single-member electorate by area in the world—almost a third of the continent.