Murchison-Eyre was an electoral district

Electoral districts of Western Australia

The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as electorates or seats....

 of the Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....

 in the Australia

Australia

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n state of Western Australia

Western Australia

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 from 1890 to 1989 and again from 2005 to 2008.

Known as Murchison until 1968, it was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 state election. The district was located in the Western Australian outback. The seat was abolished ahead of the 1989 state election

Western Australian state election, 1989

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 4 February 1989 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

.

Revived for the 2005 state election

Western Australian state election, 2005

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 February 2005 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

, Murchison-Eyre was won by Labor

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 candidate John Bowler

John Bowler (politician)

John James Mansell Bowler is a Western Australian politician who has represented the electoral district of Murchison-Eyre since 2001....

, previously member for the abolished Eyre

Electoral district of Eyre

Eyre is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.The district covers large tracts of the rural south-east of Western Australia...

. However, the district lasted just one term before it was abolished ahead of the 2008 state election

Western Australian state election, 2008

A general election was held in the state of Western Australia on Saturday 6 September 2008 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council...

. Its former territory was divided between the districts of Eyre, Kalgoorlie

Electoral district of Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.The district includes not only the town of Kalgoorlie, but significant parts of the outback in central and eastern Western Australia....

, North West, and Pilbara. Bowler, by this time an independent, successfully contested the seat of Kalgoorlie.

Members for Murchison-Eyre

Murchison (1890–1968)
Member		Party	Term
	Everard Darlot	Ministerial	1890–1894
	E. T. Hooley E. T. Hooley Edward Timothy Hooley , usually known as E. T. Hooley or Tim Hooley, was an explorer in Western Australia, who in 1866 pioneered an overland stock route from Geraldton to the Ashburton River...	Ministerial	1894–1897
	Samuel Mitchell	Ministerial	1897–1901
	John Nanson	Ministerial	1901–1904
	John Holman	Labor	1904–1921
	William Marshall	Labor	1921–1952
	Everard O'Brien	Labor	1952–1959
	Richard Burt Richard Burt Richard R. Burt is an American businessman and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Germany and was a chief negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Prior to his diplomatic career, Burt worked as director of a non-governmental organization and was a correspondent for the New...	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1959–1968
Murchison-Eyre (1968–1989)
Member		Party	Term
	Richard Burt	Liberal	1968–1971
	Peter Coyne	Liberal	1971–1986
	Ross Lightfoot Ross Lightfoot Philip Ross Lightfoot is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1997 to 2008, representing the state of Western Australia....	Liberal	1986–1989
Murchison-Eyre (2005–2008)
Member		Party	Term
	John Bowler John Bowler (politician) John James Mansell Bowler is a Western Australian politician who has represented the electoral district of Murchison-Eyre since 2001....	Labor	2005–2006
		Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	2006–2008