Electoral district of Murray and Williams

Murray and Williams was an electoral district of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1874 to 1890, during the period when the Legislative Council was the sole chamber of the Parliament of Western Australia.

It comprised parts of the districts of Fremantle and Wellington.

The district included almost all of what is now called the Peel region, as well as areas of the Wheatbelt, South West, and Great Southern, with its eastern boundary being a portion of the Great Australian Bight coastline.

[1] Four men represented Murray and Williams in the Legislative Council between 1870 and 1890 – Samuel Hamersley, Septimus Burt, Theodore Fawcett, and William Paterson.

Burt and Paterson went on to serve in the Legislative Assembly following the advent of responsible government in 1890.