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Division of Dampier

Australian federal electoral division

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ5284514 ↗
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The Division of Dampier was an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia. The seat was created in 1913 and abolished in 1922. It was named for the navigator William Dampier, the first Englishman to see Australia, and was located in rural Western Australia, including the towns of Northam and Toodyay. It was a safe seat for the non-Labor parties.

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This entry incorporates text from “Division of Dampier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.