Electoral district of Kingsley
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Kingsley is an Electoral district of Western Australia. As in other districts, the Kingsley district elects a single person to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The elected person is then known as the Member for Kingsley, and is said to hold the seat of Kingsley. As of 2005, the Member for Kingsley is Judy Hughes who holds the seat for the Labor Party by a margin of 0.8%. The seat in 2009 is expected to be highly contested.
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Strip of northern suburbs on 25 km² of land squeezed between the Mitchell Freeway and Wanneroo Road, north of Beach Road and south of Lake Joondalup. It includes the suburbs of Woodvale, Kingsley, Greenwood, Warwick and parts of Edgewater.
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A relatively new electorate in 1989 and held for the Liberal since by Cheryl Edwardes. She served as a Minister in the Court government, initially as Attorney-General and later in the major welfare portfolio. There was a 7.3% swing to Labor in 2001.
