Electoral district of Peel
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Peel is an Electoral district of Western Australia. As in other districts, the Peel district elects a single person to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. The elected person is then known as the Member for Peel, and is said to hold the seat of Peel. As of 1989, the Member for Peel is Norm Marlborough who holds the seat for the Labor Party by a margin of 13.5%. The seat in 2009 is expected to be retained by the Labor Party.
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A disjointed electorate covering an array of suburbs on the southern edge of what the statisticians define as the Perth metropolitan area. It includes Leda, Wellard and parts of Parmelia in Kwinana, the outer Rockingham suburbs of Hillman, Waikiki, Warnbro and Port Kennedy, as well as Baldivis, Secret Harbour, Golden Bay and Singleton. The largest South metropolitan electorate at 192 km².
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New seat created before the 1989 election, and with rapid population growth in the district, it has contracted at both subsequent redistributions. A safe Labor seat since its creation.
