Ashburton 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 1901 and again from 1989 to 1996.

The district was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 state election. It was located in the remote north-west of the state. The seat was abolished ahead of the 1901 state election

Western Australian state election, 1901

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 24 April 1901 to elect 50 members to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly...

.

Revived for 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...

, Ashburton was won by Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 candidate Pam Buchanan, previously the member for Pilbara. Buchanan, by this time an independent, resigned the seat in 1991 due to ill-health, triggering a by-election won by Labor candidate Fred Riebeling

Fred Riebeling

Fredrick Riebeling is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2008.Riebeling was born in Bridgetown...

. The district was abolished ahead of the 1996 state election

Western Australian state election, 1996

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 14 December 1996 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

 and Riebeling shifted to the new seat of Burrup

Electoral district of Burrup

Burrup was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1996 to 2005.The district was based in the rural north-west of Western Australia...

 at that election.

Members for Ashburton

Ashburton (1890–1901)
Member		Party	Term
	Septimus Burt Septimus Burt The Hon Septimus Burt KC was a Western Australian lawyer, politician and grazier, the son of Sir Archibald Burt.He was born on 25 October 1847 at St Kitts in the West Indies, and educated at a private school at Melksham, Wiltshire, England...	Ministerial	1890–1900
	David Forrest David Forrest (Australian politician) David Forrest was an Australian politician, a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1900 to 1901, holding the seat of Ashburton. He was the younger brother of Sir John Forrest and Alexander Forrest, and the great-grandfather of Andrew Forrest.Forrest was the sixth child of...	Ministerial	1900–1901
Ashburton (1989–1996)
Member		Party	Term
	Pam Buchanan	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... /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...	1989–1992
	Fred Riebeling Fred Riebeling Fredrick Riebeling is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 2008.Riebeling was born in Bridgetown...	Labor	1992–1996