The Electoral district of Roebourne was a 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....

 electorate

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....

 in the state

States and territories of Australia

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 of Western Australia

Western Australia

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. It was named for the town of Roebourne

Roebourne, Western Australia

Roebourne is an old gold rush town in Western Australia's Pilbara region. It is 202 km from Port Hedland and 1,563 km from Perth, the state's capital. It prospered during its gold boom of the late 19th century and was once the biggest settlement between Darwin and Perth...

 and was created in 1890, being one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 state election.

The seat was abolished in the 1948 redistribution under the Electoral Districts Act 1947, and was absorbed into the seat of Pilbara. Its final member, Alec Rodoreda, transferred successfully to the Pilbara seat at the election.

Members for Roebourne

Member		Party	Term
	George Leake George Leake George Leake CMG QC was Premier of Western Australia from 27 May 1901 to 21 November 1901, and again from 23 December 1901 until his death on 24 June 1902.-Early life:...	Non-aligned	1890
	Horace Sholl	Ministerial	1891–1901
	John Sydney Hicks	Ministerial	1901–1908
	Henry Osborn Henry Osborn (politician) Henry Osborn was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1908 until 1911 representing the seat of Roebourne, as well as the mayor of two different municipalities in Western Australia.-Biography:Osborn was born in the Victoria Plains region to...	Ministerial	1908–1911
	Joseph Gardiner Joseph Gardiner Joseph Peter Gardiner was the Australian Labor Party member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Roebourne from 1911 to 1915...	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...	1911–1915
	William Butcher William Butcher William James Burchell Butcher , Australian politician, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for twelve years....	Liberal (WA)	1915–1917
		Nationalist Nationalist Party of Australia The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...	1917
	Frederick Teesdale	Nationalist	1917–1932
	Alec Rodoreda	Labor	1932–1950