Electoral district of Central Wheatbelt

Central Wheatbelt is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

Central Wheatbelt Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
Interactive map of electoral district boundaries from the 2025 state election
State	Western Australia
Dates current	2008–present
MP	Lachlan Hunter
Party	National
Namesake	Wheatbelt region
Electors	32,155 (2025)
Area	97,953 km2 (37,819.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural
Coordinates	31.41°S 117.91°E / -31.41; 117.91
Electorates around Central Wheatbelt: Mid-West Mid-West Kalgoorlie Swan Hills Kalamunda Central Wheatbelt Kalgoorlie Darling Range Murray-Wellington Collie-Preston Roe Roe

The district is centrally located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

Politically, Central Wheatbelt is a safe National Party seat.

History

Central Wheatbelt was first created for the 2008 state election. It was essentially an amalgamation of the abolished National-held districts of Avon and Merredin, although parts of each ended up in neighbouring districts. Roughly half the new district's voters came from each of the two former districts.

The original proposal had the newly created district persisting with the name Merredin.^[1] However, this was the focus of several objections, as Merredin is but one town in the eastern part of this sizeable electorate.^[2] Instead, the more generic name of Central Wheatbelt was adopted.

Geography

Central Wheatbelt incorporates a number of rural inland shires to the east of Perth. Its population centres include Ballidu, Beacon, Beverley, Dowerin, Koorda, Meckering, Merredin, Narembeen, Northam, Pingelly, Southern Cross, Tammin, Westonia, Wongan Hills, Wundowie, Wyalkatchem and York.

Members for Central Wheatbelt

Member		Party	Term
	Brendon Grylls	National	2008–2013
	Mia Davies	National	2013–present
	Lachlan Hunter	National	2025–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Central Wheatbelt

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2025 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Central Wheatbelt.[edit]

2025 Western Australian state election: Central Wheatbelt^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Lachlan Hunter	12,417	46.7	+1.3
	Labor	Rebecca Atkinson	5,314	20.0	−14.8
	Liberal	Lance French	3,928	14.8	+5.8
	One Nation	Peter Lines	2,475	9.3	+7.3
	Greens	Peter Stephen Leam	1,447	5.4	+3.2
	Christians	Les Holten	1,030	3.9	+2.2
Total formal votes			26,611	96.5	+0.6
Informal votes			976	3.5	−0.6
Turnout			27,587	85.8	+4.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
	National	Lachlan Hunter	19,490	73.3	+14.1
	Labor	Rebecca Atkinson	7,096	26.7	−14.1
	National hold		Swing	+14.1