Midland Electorate Profile (2025)

Map showing the boundaries of the Midland electorate for the 2025 election

PDF version of the Midland electorate map

Area (sq km): 57
Number of Electors: 31,432
Source: 2023 Final Distribution Report, Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission.

Origin of the Name:
Midland is named after the Midland Railway Company, which in 1886 was contracted by the state government to build a railway line to Geraldton in return for grants of land. The company established its headquarters at the present site of Midland, and the town grew around the Midland Railway and the government's Eastern Railway. A railway station of Midland Junction was opened there in 1894 and in 1895 it was named 'Helena Vale'. The railway station kept its name and so much confusion arose that the town was renamed Midland Junction in 1901 and finally shortened to Midland in 1961.
Source: Western Australia. Department of Land Administration. Names and Places.

Suburbs and Towns within the Electorate:
The electorate of Midland includes all or part of Bellevue, Boya, Caversham, Greenmount, Guildford, Helena Valley, Jane Brook, Koongamia, Middle Swan, Midland, Midvale, Red Hill, Stratton, Swan View, Viveash, West Swan and Woodbridge.
Source: Western Australian Electoral Commission.

Local Governments within the Electorate:
Shire of Mundaring
City of Swan

Schools
Government: Caversham Valley Primary School; Clayton View Primary School; Governor Stirling Senior High School; Greenmount Primary School; Guildford Primary School; Middle Swan Primary School; Midvale Primary School; Moorditj Noongar Community College; Swan View Primary School; Swan View Senior High school; Wooodbridge Primary School.

Other: Guildford Grammar School; Helena River Steiner School; Indie School Western Australia; La Salle College; St Anthony's School; St Brigid's Primary School.

Local Newspapers:

Midland Times

Books about Midland:

Andrew Gentile: Midland - a Swan Valley town, images from the passing of an era during the last years to century's end (128p. A Gentile, 2002)
Trea Wiltshire: A place in the hills - Darlington's first 50 years (72p. T Wiltshire, 1997)
Michael Bourke: On the Swan - a history of Swan District, Western Australia (367p. UWA Press, 1987)
Canon A Burton: The story of the Swan District, 1843-1939 (80p. Frank Daniels, 1939)
Harold Wilson: A history of the Anglican parish of Swan (99p. Access Press, 1997)
Anne Marshall: Hazelmere, more than just a pretty place - a social history of Bushmead/Hazelmere before European settlement to 1999 (248p. Hazelmere Progress Association, 2008)
Smyth, Chris: Midland railway workshops - a history in pictures, 1904-2004 (107p. St George Books, 2004)
W J De Burgh: A story of Swan location 16 (Woodbridge and Bushmead), Swan location M1 (Caversham), Swan location 16A and Helena location 7 (Waterhall) (42p. Hesperian Press, 2008)

Constituency created under the Redistribution of Seats 1994

Name	Party	Term
Michelle Hopkins Roberts	Australian Labor Party	1996 - 2025

Source:
Black, David & Valerie Prescott. Election Statistics: Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, WA: Parliament of Western Australia Electoral Commission, 1997.
Parliament of Western Australia, Members (website) http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au

Midland Electorate Profile (2025)

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