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The Australian state of Western Australia is divided into 142 Local Government Areas (including Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands). Their mandate and operations are governed by the Local Government Act 1995. ^[1]

There are three classifications of local government in Western Australia:

City (predominantly urban, some larger regional centres)
Town (predominantly inner urban and three medium sized rural centres)
Shire (predominantly rural or outer suburban areas)

Historically, two types of local government existed - municipalities, which represented towns or condensed urban areas, and road boards, which represented all other regions. The Perth Road Board, for instance, was the precursor to the City of Stirling. Only a few cities - Perth, Fremantle, Subiaco, South Perth and Nedlands - existed prior to 1961. On 1 July 1961, all road boards became shires, and all municipalities became towns.

Table of areas

Name	Council Seat ^[2]	Formed ^[3]	Origin ^[3]	Population ^[4]	Area
City of Albany	Albany	1998	Albany Municipal Council (1871 - later Town of Albany) and Albany Road Board (1896 - later Shire of Albany) merged on 1 July 1998 to form the City of Albany.	33,545	4312.3 km² (1,665.0 sq mi)
City of Armadale	Armadale	1985	Prior to 1894, the area was part of the Canning Road District. In 1894, the Kelmscott Road Board was gazetted - renamed to Armadale-Kelmscott in 1910. Became Town of Armadale on 1 July 1979, and City of Armadale on 16 November 1985.	53,445	559.5 km² (216.0 sq mi)
Shire of Ashburton	Tom Price	1972	Ashburton Road Board (1887) and Tableland Road Board (1896) merged on 27 May 1972 to form West Pilbara Shire. Renamed Ashburton in December 1987.	6,477	101,240 km² (39,089 sq mi)
Shire of Augusta-Margaret River	Margaret River	1891	Augusta Road Board (1891) was renamed to Augusta-Margaret River in 1926.	11,360	2242.6 km² (865.9 sq mi)
Town of Bassendean	Bassendean	1975	West Guildford Road Board (1901) renamed Bassendean in 1922. Became a Town in 1975.	14,218	10.4 km² (4.0 sq mi)
City of Bayswater	Morley	1983	Bayswater Road Board (1897) became a City on 29 October 1983.	59,100	32.8 km² (12.7 sq mi)
City of Belmont	Belmont	1898	Belmont Road Board (1898) was gazetted. In 1907, it was renamed to the Belmont Park Road Board. On 17 February 1979 it attained City status.	32,548	39.8 km² (15.4sq mi)
Shire of Beverley	Beverley	1871	The Beverley Road Board (1871) was created to manage a territory with immense boundaries, taking in land all the way east to Eucla on the South Australian border. Over the years, each of the major towns developed their own road board, and by 1923 the present boundaries were established.	1,679	2372.2 km² (915.9sq mi)
Shire of Boddington	Boddington	1925	A road board had been convened at Marradong 8 km to the south in 1903, but it was relocated to Boddington in 1925 after the arrival of the railway and construction of suitable buildings. Was finally renamed to Boddington on 1 July 1961.	1,505	1,900.6 km² (733.8 sq mi)
Shire of Boyup Brook	Boyup Brook	1896	Upper Blackwood Road Board (1896) changed name to Boyup Brook on 1 July 1961.	1,552	2,829.2 km² (1,092.4 sq mi)
Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes	Bridgetown	1970	Nelson Road Board (1887 - renamed Bridgetown in 1917) and Greenbushes Road Board (1900) merged on 26 March 1970.	4,194	1,339.8 km² (517.3 sq mi)
Shire of Brookton	Brookton	1906	On 10 September 1906, the Brookton Road Board met for the first time after Mr Samuel Williams broke away from the Beverley Road Board.	1,040	1,601.6 km² (618.4 sq mi)
Shire of Broome	Broome	1918	Broome Municipal Council (1904-1918) and Broome Road Board (November 1901, dissolved into West Kimberley Road Board in 1908) merged in 1918, with wards for the previous town (Broome) and road district (Dampier).	15,259	55,795.6 km² (21,542.8 sq mi)
Shire of Broomehill	Broomehill	1892	The Broomehill Road Board was gazetted in 1892	497	1,172.8 km² (452.8 sq mi)
Shire of Bruce Rock	Bruce Rock	1918	East Avon Road Board (1913) renamed to Bruce Rock in 1918.	1,107	2,726.9 km² (1,052.9 sq mi)
City of Bunbury	Bunbury	1979	In 1871, the Bunbury Municipal Council was gazetted, and in 1899 the Bunbury Suburban Road Board (which became the Bunbury Road Board in 1908) followed. The two entities merged in 1950, and attained City status in 1979.	31,638	65.7 km² (25.4 sq mi)
Shire of Busselton	Busselton	1951	Busselton Municipal District (1871) and Sussex Road District (1871) merged in 1951.	27,500	1,454.8 km² (561.7 sq mi)
Town of Cambridge	Floreat	1993	Historically the area was part of the Nedlands municipality, gazetted in 1901, which was absorbed into the City of Perth in 1915 after becoming unsustainable as an autonomous political entity. In 1993 the Government of Western Australia decided to split up the Local Government Area(LGA) of the City of Perth, creating three additional LGA's and retaining a smaller City of Perth. The new LGA's were Town of Vincent, Town of Cambridge and the Town of Victoria Park.	25,400	22.0 km² (8.5 sq mi)
City of Canning	Cannington	1978	In 1871, the Canning Road Board was gazetted, covering a very wide area to the southeast of Perth. On 1 July 1907, it was abolished and split into the Queen's Park Municipal District and Gosnells Road Board (later to become the City of Gosnells). In 1921, Queen's Park was renamed to Canning Road Board, and two years later received a large amount of land from Jandakot Road Board when that entity was abolished. On 1 July 1961, Canning Road Board became a Shire Council following changes to the Local Government Act. In 1970 it became a Town and in 1978 it attained City status.	83,006	64.8 km² (25.0 sq mi)
Shire of Capel	Capel	1907	Capel was initially constituted as the Bunbury Road Board in 1894 (as distinguished from the Bunbury Municipal District). In 1907, it was renamed to Capel.	11,250	557.6 km² (215.3 sq mi)
Shire of Carnamah	Carnamah	1923	The Carnamah Road Board was formed out of land previously managed by the Irwin and Mingenew Road Boards in 1923. On 19 April 1962, it lost three-fifths of its area when the Shire of Coorow was created.	789	2,876.4 km² (1,110.6sq mi)
Shire of Carnarvon	Carnarvon	1965	Carnarvon started as three entities - the Carnarvon Municipal District, which governed the town of Carnarvon and was constituted in 1891; the Lower Gascoyne Road Board (1887) and the Minilya Road Board (1893). In 1911, the two Road Boards merged to form the Gascoyne-Minilya Road Board. On 1 March 1965, the two entities merged to form the Shire of Carnarvon.	6,085	46,663.5 km² (18,016.9 sq mi)
Shire of Chapman Valley	Nabawa	1958	The Upper Chapman Road Board was established in 1901. In 1958, it was renamed to Chapman Valley Road Board.	982	3,964.7 km² (1,530.8 sq mi)
Shire of Chittering	Bindoon	1896	Gazetted as Chittering Road Board in 1896.	3,892	1,221.8 km² (471.7 sq mi)
Shire of Christmas Island	Christmas Island	1992	The island was previously a British territory administered through Singapore but was transferred to Australia in 1945. After 1958, it was managed by the Christmas Island Assembly and Christmas Island Services Corporation. On 1 July 1992, the Federal Government's Territories Law Reform Act came into place, applying Western Australian law to the island. An ordinance subsequently created the Shire of Christmas Island out of a merger of the two previous entities. The first elections were held in May 1993.	1,448 (2001 census)	136.7 km² (52.8 sq mi)
Town of Claremont	Claremont	1898	The Claremont Municipal Council was gazetted in 1898.	9,535	4.9 km² (1.9 sq mi)
City of Cockburn	Spearwood	1979	Fremantle Road Board (1871) gazetted to cover the area to the south of Fremantle. In 1923, it received a large amount of land from Jandakot Road Board when that entity was abolished. In 1955, it was renamed to the Cockburn Road Board (later Shire Council). In 1970 it became a Town and on 26 October 1979 it attained City status.	80,921	167.5 km² (64.7 sq mi)
Shire of Cocos	Home Island	1992	From the 19th century onwards, the islands were owned by the Clunies-Ross family, and in 1886 were granted to them in perpetuity by Queen Victoria. On 23 November 1955 the islands were transferred to Australian control. In 1978, Australia entered a form of purchase of the islands with the Clunies-Ross family, and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Council came into existence in July 1979 as a representative of the Cocos Malay community. On 1 July 1992, the Federal Government's Territories Law Reform Act came into place, applying Western Australian law to the islands. An ordinance subsequently created the Shire of Cocos, replacing the earlier Council and transferring all the Council's assets to the new body. The first elections were held in May 1993.	621 (2001 census)	14.1 km² (5.4 sq mi)
Shire of Collie	Collie	1951	Collie Road Board (1900) and Collie Municipal District (1901) merged on 2 March 1951 to form the Collie Coalfields Road Board. Renamed to Collie Shire Council on 1 July 1961.	9,067	1,710.9 km² (660.6 sq mi)
Shire of Coolgardie	Coolgardie	1921	Coolgardie Municipal Council (1894) and Coolgardie Road Board (1896) merged into the latter in 1921.	4,078	30,400 km² (11,737.5 sq mi)
Shire of Coorow	Coorow	1962	Historically, the area was managed by the Carnamah Road Board. On 19 April 1962, the Shire of Coorow was gazetted.	1,196	4,193.9 km² (1,619.3 sq mi)
Shire of Corrigin	Corrigin	1914	From 1891 until 1913, different parts of the area was managed by Morambine (Pingelly), Greenhills and Brookton Road Boards. The Kunjinn Road Board (1913) was renamed Corrigin in 1914 after a change of venue.	1,213	3,095 km² (1,195.0 sq mi)
Town of Cottesloe	Cottesloe	1907	The Cottesloe Road Board was gazetted in 1895 and became a Municipal Council in 1907.	7,888	3.9 km² (1.5 sq mi)
Shire of Cranbrook	Cranbrook	1926	The Cranbrook Road Board was gazetted in 1926.	1,120	3,276.8 km² (1,265.2 sq mi)
Shire of Cuballing	Cuballing	1902	The Cuballing Road Board was gazetted in 1902.	829	1,195.4 km² (461.5 sq mi)
Shire of Cue	Cue	1912	Cue initially existed as two entities - the Cue Road Board (1895), and the Daydawn Municipal Council(1894). In 1912, they merged to form the Cue-Daydawn Road Board, which was renamed Cue in 1930.	362	13,622.9 km² (5,259.8 sq mi)
Shire of Cunderdin	Cunderdin	1894	The Meckering Road Board (1894) was renamed Cunderdin in 1944.	1,274	1,864.2 km² (719.8 sq mi)
Shire of Dalwallinu	Dalwallinu	1916	Initially, the area was managed by the Moora and Upper Irwin Road Boards. In 1916, the Dalwallinu Road Board was gazetted.	1,387	7,235.8 km² (2,793.8 sq mi)
Shire of Dandaragan	Jurien Bay	1890	The Dandaragan Road Board was gazetted in 1890.	3,097	6,716.3 km² (2,593.2 sq mi)
Shire of Dardanup	Eaton	1894	The Dardanup Road Board was gazetted in 1894.	11,418	526.6 km² (203.3sq mi)
Shire of Denmark	Denmark	1911	The Denmark Road Board was gazetted in 1911.	4,982	1,860.1 km² (718.2 sq mi)
Shire of Derby-West Kimberley	Derby	1884	The West Kimberley Road Board (1884) was renamed in 1983.	7,917	104,080 km² (40,185.5 sq mi)
Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup	Donnybrook	1970	The Upper Capel Road Board (1899 - renamed Balingup in 1905) and Preston Road Board (1896 - renamed Donnybrook in 1961) were merged on 26 March 1970.	5,092	1,560.3 km² (602.4 sq mi)
Shire of Dowerin	Dowerin	1911	The Dowerin Road Board was gazetted in 1911.	740	1,846.7 km² (713.0 sq mi)
Shire of Dumbleyung	Dumbleyung	1909	The Dumbleyung Road Board was gazetted in 1909.	662	2,540.1 km² (980.7 sq mi)
Shire of Dundas	Norseman	1929	The Dundas Road Board (1895) merged with part of Esperance to become the Norseman Road Board in 1918, but reestablished as Dundas in 1929.	1,153	93,179 km² (35,976.6 sq mi)
Town of East Fremantle	East Fremantle	1897	The East Fremantle Municipal Council was gazetted in 1897.	7,079	3.1 km² (1.2 sq mi)
Shire of East Pilbara	Newman	1972	Bamboo Road Board (1896 - renamed Marble Bar Road Board in 1904) and Nullagine Road Board (1898) merged on 27 May 1972 to form East Pilbara Shire.	7,500	379,571 km² (146,553.2 sq mi)
Shire of Esperance	Esperance	1908	The Esperance Road Board (1895) and the Esperance Municipal Council (1895) were merged into the former in 1908.	14,170	42, 546.9 km² (16,427.4 sq mi)
Shire of Exmouth	Exmouth	1964	Exmouth was initially managed by the Shire of Carnarvon and its precedent bodies. The Shire of Exmouth was formed on 1 January 1964	2,224	6,502.8 km² (2,510.7 sq mi)
City of Fremantle	Fremantle	1929	The Fremantle Municipal Council (1971) was declared a city on 3 June 1929 - Western Australia's second after Perth.	26,777	19.0 km² (7.3 sq mi)
City of Geraldton-Greenough	Geraldton	2007	Geraldton Municipal Council (1871 - later City of Geraldton) and Greenough and Geraldton Road Boards (1871 - later Shire of Greenough) merged on July 1, 2007	35,727	1,798.3 km² (694.3 sq mi)
Shire of Gingin	Gingin	1903	Gingin Road Board (1893) and Gingin Municipal Council (1893) merged in 1903.	4,629	3,211.1 km² (1,239.8 sq mi)
Shire of Gnowangerup	Gnowangerup	1912	Gnowangerup was initially gazetted as a Road Board in 1912, taking in eastern sections of Broomehill and Tambellup.	1,410	4,268.2 km² (1,648.0 sq mi)
Shire of Goomalling	Goomalling	1927	In 1927, the Goomalling Road Board was gazetted out of land previously administered by the Wyalkatchem and Mount Marshall Road Boards.	1,003	1,837.2 km² (709.3 sq mi)
City of Gosnells	Gosnells	1977	Gosnells Road Board was created out of the abolished Canning Road Board on 1 July 1907. In 1923, it received land from Jandakot Road Board when that entity was abolished. In 1955, it was renamed to the Cockburn Road Board. On 1 July 1973 it became a Town and exactly four years later it attained City status.	97,408	128 km² (49.4 sq mi)
Shire of Halls Creek	Halls Creek	1915	The Kimberley Goldfields Road Board (1887) was renamed to the Halls Creek Road Board in 1915.	3,620	143,030 km² (55,224.2 sq mi)
Shire of Harvey	Harvey	1894	From 1841, the Harvey District was controlled by the Wellington Road Board. The Brunswick Road Board (December 1894) was renamed to Harvey in 1909.	21,310	1,728.3 km² (667.3 sq mi)
Shire of Irwin	Dongara	1897	The Irwin Road Board was gazetted in 1871, and in 1916 received a large land area from the Upper Irwin Road Board shortly before that entity's dissolution. In the 1920s, the Carnamah and Three Springs districts were split away from Irwin.	3,347	2,374.4 km² (916.8 sq mi)
Shire of Jerramungup	Jerramungup	1982	The Jerramungup Road Board was gazetted in 1982, on land previously managed by the Shire of Gnowangerup.	1,185	6,507.1 km² (2,512.4 sq mi)
City of Joondalup	Jondalup	1998	Until 1998, the area had been controlled by the City of Wanneroo and its predecessors. An independent commission suggested the creation of Joondalup out of the coastal areas of Wanneroo, and the City of Joondalup came into existence on 1 July 1998.	157,203	98.9 km² (38.2 sq mi)
Shire of Kalamunda	Kalamunda	1897	The Darling Range Road Board (1897) was renamed Shire of Kalamunda on 1 July 1961.	52,360	324.2 km² (125.2 sq mi)
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder	Kalgoorlie	1989		30,903	95,575.1 km² (36,901.8 sq mi)
Shire of Katanning	Katanning	1892	The Katanning Road Board was gazetted in 1892.	4,482	1,518.5 km² (586.3 sq mi)
Shire of Kellerberrin	Kellerberrin	1908	The Kellerberrin Road Board (1908) originally included large parts of what are now Tammin, Wyalkatchem and Trayning.	1,270	1,916.8 km² (740.1 sq mi)
Shire of Kent	Nyabing	1922	The Kent Road Board was formed and gazetted in 1922. From 1955 until 1972, it was known as Nyabing-Pingrup.	604	5,633.8 km² (2,175.2 sq mi)
Shire of Kojonup	Kojonup	1871	The Kojonup Road Board was gazetted in 1871.	2,212	2,932.2 km² (1,132.1 sq mi)
Shire of Kondinin	Kondinin	1925	The Kondinin Road Board was formed from the portions of the Roe Road Board, Corrigin Road Board and Narembeen Road Board on 19 June 1925. The first election was held on 5 September 1925, with the first meeting taking place in the Kondinin Hall a week later.	1,030	7,376 km² (2,847.9 sq mi)
Shire of Koorda	Koorda	1927	In 1927, the Koorda Road Board was gazetted out of land previously administered by the Wyalkatchem and Mount Marshall Road Boards.	452	2,835.7 km² (1,094.9 sq mi)
Shire of Kulin	Kulin	1918	The Roe Road Board (1918) was renamed to the Kulin Road Board in 1926.	900	4,713.7 km² (1,820.0 sq mi)
Town of Kwinana	Kwinana	1954	Kwinana Roads Districts (1954). Municipality of Kwinana (1960). Town of Kwinana (1977)	25,109	118 km² (45.6 sq mi)
Shire of Lake Grace	Lake Grace	1961	The Lake Grace Road Board was gazetted in 1922.	1,530	10,379.2 km² (4,007.4 sq mi)
Shire of Laverton	Laverton	1906	The Mount Margaret Road Board was gazetted in 1906. It absorbed the Mount Morgans municipality in 1913, and in 1925 received some land from neighbouring road districts, most notably Lawlers. In 1950 it was renamed Laverton	786	179,797.8 km² (69,420.3 sq mi)
Shire of Leonora	Leonora	1898	Leonora started as part of the North Coolgardie Road Board's area when that entity was gazetted in 1898. The town of Leonora was gazetted as a municipality with its own mayor in 1900. In 1912, the North Coolgardie Road Board was dissolved and the Mount Malcolm, Kookynie and Menzies Road Boards were formed. Mount Malcolm absorbed the Leonora Municipal Council in 1917 and became the Leonora-Mount Malcolm Road Board. In 1929, a neighbouring district, Lawlers, was dissolved and split between Mount Margaret (later Laverton) and Leonora-Mount Malcolm, which was renamed to simply Leonora a year later.	1,620	32,189.3 km² (12,428.4 sq mi)
City of Mandurah	Mandurah	1990	The Mandurah Road Board held its first meeting on 1 September 1949, became the Shire of Mandurah in 1961, and gained Town status on 1 July 1987 and City status on 14 April 1990. Prior to 1949, it was part of the Murray Road District.	60,560	174 km² (67.2 sq mi)
Shire of Manjimup	Manjimup	1909	The Shire area was first included in the Plantagenet, Wellington and Sussex Road Districts in 1871. Later the area was included in the Nelson Road Board District. On 3 July 1908, the Warren Road Board was gazetted, initially consisting of 7 elected members, and in 1925 it was renamed Manjimup.	9,187	7,027.3 km² (2,713.3 sq mi)
Shire of Meekatharra	Meekatharra	1909	The Meekatharra Road Board was gazetted in 1909.	1,296	100,789 km² (38,914.9 sq mi)
City of Melville	Booragoon	1968	In 1900, the East Fremantle Road Board was gazetted, and the following year was renamed to Melville Road Board. In 1923, it received a large amount of land from Jandakot Road Board when that entity was abolished. In 1962 it became a Town and in 1968 it attained City status.	99,713	52.73 km² (20.4 sq mi)
Shire of Menzies	Menzies	1895	The Menzies Municipal Council was gazetted in 1895. It was dissolved and included in the North Coolgardie Road Board in 1912, which was itself dissolved the same year to form the Menzies, Kookynie and Mt Malcolm Road Boards. In 1918, Kookynie was merged into Menzies.	249	124,635 km² (48,121.8 sq mi)
Shire of Merredin	Merredin	1921	The Merredin Road Board was gazetted in 1921.	3,427	3,299.7 km² (1,274.0 sq mi)
Shire of Mingenew	Mingenew	1901	The Shire of Mingenew was initially constituted as the Upper Irwin Road Board in 1901, over a much larger area. By 1919, it had adopted for the most part its present area and was renamed to the Mingenew Road Board.	494	1,939.4 km² (748.8 sq mi)
Shire of Moora	Moora	1908	The Moora Road Board was gazetted in 1908 out of land from Victoria Plains.	2,550	3,766.9 km² (1,454.4 sq mi)
Shire of Morawa	Morawa	1928	Morawa was gazetted as a Road Board in 1928.	894	3,515.8 km² (1,357.5 sq mi)
Town of Mosman Park	Mosman Park	1962	The Buckland Hill Road Board was gazetted in 1899. From 1909 until 1930, it was known as the Cottesloe Beach Road Board. It was renamed to Mosman Park Road Board in 1937 and became a town in 1962.	8,894	4.3 km² (1.7 sq mi)
Shire of Mount Magnet	Mount Magnet	1896	Mount Magnet was gazetted as a municipality in 1896, with the surrounding area gazetted as a Road Board in 1901. The former merged into the latter in October 1918	580	13,691.6 km² (5,286.4 sq mi)
Shire of Mount Marshall	Bencubbin	1923	In 1923, the Mount Marshall Road Board was gazetted out of areas formerly managed by Ninghan (Trayning) and Nungarin.	655	10,189.5 km² (3,934.2 sq mi)
Shire of Mukinbudin	Mukinbudin	1933	Initially, Mukinbudin was governed by the Merredin Road Board. In 1921, the Nungarin Road Board was gazetted, and in 1933 Mukinbudin, which had grown considerably in the intervening years, was gazetted separately.	588	3,437.1 km² (1,327.1 sq mi)
Shire of Mullewa	Mullewa	1911	The Shire of Mullewa was gazetted in 1911	950	10,827.2 km² (4,180.4 sq mi)
Shire of Mundaring	Mundaring	1903	The Greenmount Road Board (1903) was renamed to Mundaring in 1934.	37,039	644.9 km² (249.0 sq mi)
Shire of Murchison	No council seat	1875	The Murchison Road Board was gazetted in 1875.	127	41,173 km² (15,897.0 sq mi)
Shire of Murray	Pinjarra	1887	The Murray Road Board was gazetted in December 1887.	12,917	1,710.6 km² (660.5 sq mi)
Shire of Nannup	Nannup	1890	The Lower Blackwood Road Board (renamed to Nannup Road Board in 1925) was gazetted in 1890.	1,260	2,934.6 km² (1,133.1 sq mi)
Shire of Narembeen	Narrembeen	1924	The Narembeen Road Board was gazetted in 1924.	908	3,832.9 km² (1,479.9 sq mi)
Shire of Narrogin	Narrogin	1892	The Narrogin Road Board (later Shire Council) was gazetted in 1892. In 1999 and 2004, proposals to merge the council with the Narrogin Town Council were defeated at referendum	880	1,618.8 km² (625.0 sq mi)
Town of Narrogin	Narrogin	1906	The Narrogin Municipal Council (later Town Council) was gazetted in 1906.	4,565	13.1 km² (5.1 sq mi)
City of Nedlands	Nedlands	1959	The Claremont Road Board (1893) was renamed to Nedlands in 1932. It became a municipality (town) on 1 March 1956, and attained city status on 1 July 1959.	21,852	20 km² (7.7 sq mi)
Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku	Warburton	1993	It was formed on 1 July 1993 following a report of the Local Government Boundaries Commission in 1992. The Shire of Wiluna was divided with the eastern area becoming the new Shire.	1,650	159,948 km² (61,756.3 sq mi)
Shire of Northam	Northam	1871	The Northam Road Board (later Shire Council) was gazetted in 1871. Amalgamated with the Town of Northam in 2007	10,381	1,431.5 km² (552.7 sq mi)
Shire of Northampton	Northampton	1887	The Northampton Road Board was gazetted in 1887.	3,412	13,737.8 km² (5,304.2 sq mi)
Shire of Nungarin	Nungarin	1921	Initially, Nungarin was governed by the Kellerberrin Road Board. In 1911, responsibility for the area was transferred to the Merredin Road Board. In 1921, the Nungarin Road Board was gazetted, which extended north into the present Mount Marshall shire. In 1933 it lost over three-quarters of its land area with the formation of Mukinbudin Road District.	259	1,163.8 km² (449.3 sq mi)
Shire of Peppermint Grove	Peppermint Grove	1895	The Peppermint Grove Road Board was gazetted in 1895.	1,662	1.1 km² (0.4 sq mi)
Shire of Perenjori	Perenjori	1916	The Perenjori-Morawa Road Board was gazetted in 1916 on land previously managed by the Upper Irwin Road Board. In April 1928, the entity split in two, creating the Shire of Perenjori and the Shire of Morawa.	540	8,313.0 km² (3,209.7 sq mi)
City of Perth	Perth	1856	The City of Perth was declared on 20 September 1856. In 1915, it absorbed North Perth (1901) and Leederville (1895) municipalities, and on 1 November 1917, Victoria Park was also absorbed. A year later, it absorbed territory from Perth Road Board including the Belmont Park racecourse. By 1962, the council had 27 members representing nine wards. On 1 July 1994, following the passage of the City of Perth Restructuring Act (1993), the City of Perth was broken up and a revised (and significantly reduced) City of Perth, Town of Victoria Park, Town of Cambridge and Town of Vincent were created.	13,486	12.7 km² (4.9 sq mi)
Shire of Pingelly	Pingelly	1891	The Moorambine Road Board (1891) was renamed to Pingelly in 1913.	1,260	1,294.6 km² (499.8 sq mi)
Shire of Plantagenet	Mount Barker	1871	The Plantagenet Road Board (1871) initially included a reasonably large section of the Great Southern region.	4,775	4,792 km² (1,850.2 sq mi)
Town of Port Hedland	Port Hedland	1989	Pilbara Road Board (1891 - renamed Port Hedland Road Board in 1904) became a Shire in 1961 and a Town on 18 March 1989.	13,060	10,587 km² (4,087.7sq mi)
Shire of Quairading	Quairading	1922	Quairading was initially constituted as the Greenhills Road Board in 1892, covering a large area east of York. In 1913, Greenhills was broken up to form Avon, East Avon (Bruce Rock) and Kunjinn (Corrigin). In 1922 the Avon Road Board was renamed to Quairading.	1,098	2,017.8 km² (779.1 sq mi)
Shire of Ravensthorpe	Ravensthorpe	1900	The Phillips River Road Board was gazetted in 1900. Shire of Ravensthorpe (1961).	2,249	13,551.1 km² (5,232.1 sq mi)
City of Rockingham	Rockingham	1988	Rockingham Road Board was gazetted in 1897. On 12 November 1988 it attained City status.	91,702	257.1 km² (99.3 sq mi)
Shire of Roebourne	Karratha	1910	In 1887, Roebourne Municipal Council, Cossack Road Board and Roebourne Road Board were all gazetted. As the Roebourne region's population declined, the three merged into Roebourne in 1910.	18,240	15,234 km² (5,881.9 sq mi)
Shire of Sandstone	Sandstone	1897	The Black Range Road Board was gazetted in 1897, receiving land from North Coolgardie in 1908, and Leonora-Mount Malcolm in 1930.	136	32,882.2 km² (12,695.9 sq mi)
Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale	Mundijong	1894	The Serpentine Road Board was gazetted in December 1894, and in 1913 changed name to Serpentine-Jarrahdale. In 1977, it acquired Byford from Armadale-Kelmscott Shire.	14,914	905 km² (349.4 sq mi)
Shire of Shark Bay	Denham	1904	The Shark Bay Road Board was gazetted in 1904.	917	25,423 km² (9,815.9 sq mi)
City of South Perth	South Perth	1959	The South Perth Road Board was formed in 1892 and the district became a municipality (town) in 1902 and a city in 1959.	41,572	19.8 km² (7.6 sq mi)
City of Stirling	Stirling	1971	The Perth Road Board (1871) became the Shire of Perth in 1961, and gained City status in 1971.	189,083	105.2 km² (40.6 sq mi)
City of Subiaco	Subiaco	1952	The Subiaco Municipal Council was gazetted in 1896, and was proclaimed a city on 1 March 1952.	17,835	7 km² (2.7 sq mi)
City of Swan	Midland	2000	The City of Swan began as three entities: Guildford Municipal Council, the Helena Vale Municipal Council (later Midland Junction Municipal Council) and the Swan Road Board was gazetted. On 1 July 1961, the Guildford and Swan areas merged into the Shire of Swan-Guildford, while Midland became the Town of Midland. They united on 1 April 1970 as the Shire of Swan, and exactly thirty years later, on 1 April 2000, became the City of Swan.	100,593	1,043 km² (402.7 sq mi)
Shire of Tambellup	Tambellup	1905	The Tambellup Road Board was gazetted in 1905.	702	1,436.3 km² (554.6 sq mi)
Shire of Tammin	Tammin	1948	Originally the area was governed by the Meckering Road Board (now the neighbouring Shire of Cunderdin). In 1948, the Tammin Road Board was gazetted.	410	1,103.2 km² (425.9 sq mi)
Shire of Three Springs	Three Springs	1928	The Three Springs Road Board was gazetted in 1928.	698	2,657.4 km² (1,026.0 sq mi)
Shire of Toodyay	Toodyay	1912	The Toodyay Road Board (1871) and Newcastle Municipal Council (1877) merged in 1912.	4,400	1,693.8 km² (654.0 sq mi)
Shire of Trayning	Trayning	1965	Initially, the area was split between the Meckering and Kellerberrin Road Districts. On 30 June 1911, the Korrelocking Road Board was gazetted, covering Trayning, Wyalkatchem and parts of Mount Marshall and Dowerin. Nine monthe later it was renamed the Ninghan Road District. Wyalkatchem split away in 1920 and Ninghan in 1923, and absorbed parts of Nungarin to become Kununoppin-Trayning and Mount Marshall Road Districts. On 1 July 1961, it became the Shire of Trayning-Kununoppin-Yelbeni following changes to the Local Government Act, and then was renamed Shire of Trayning on 10 September 1965.	398	1,651.2 km² (637.5 sq mi)
Shire of Upper Gascoyne	Gascoyne Junction	1887	In 1887, the Upper Gascoyne Road Board was gazetted.	335	57,939 km² (22,370.4 sq mi)
Town of Victoria Park	Victoria Park	1994	Originally governed by a road board in 1894, it was declared a municipality in 1897. It was amalgamated into the City of Perth in 1917 after becoming unsustainable as an autonomous political entity. In 1993 the Government of Western Australia decided to split up the Local Government Area of the City of Perth, creating three additional LGA's and retain a smaller City of Perth. The new LGA's were Town of Vincent, Town of Cambridge and the Town of Shepperton which was later changed to its current name.	30,149	17.62 km² (6.8 sq mi)
Shire of Victoria Plains	Calingiri	1871	In 1871, the Victoria Plains Road Board was gazetted and was responsible for an area as far north as Carnamah and east to the South Australian border. These areas gradually obtained their own local government over the next 40 years.	920	2,569 km² (991.9 sq mi)
Town of Vincent	Leederville	1994	On 1 July 1994, the restructure of the City of Perth created three new local governments: the Towns of Vincent, Cambridge and Shepperton (now Victoria Park), plus a smaller City of Perth.	30,117	10.4 km² (4.0 sq mi)
Shire of Wagin	Wagin	1961	In 1887, the Arthur Road Board was gazetted, and was renamed to Wagin Road Board in 1905. In July 1906, the council was split in two, with Wagin Municipal Council representing the town, and Wagin Road Board the district. In 1961, they were reunited, with a new Town Ward created.	1,933	1,948 km² (752.1 sq mi)
Shire of Wandering	Wandering	1874	The Wandering Road Board was gazetted in 1874.	387	1,900.8 km² (733.9 sq mi)
City of Wanneroo	Wanneroo	1998	Prior to 1902, Wanneroo was part of the Perth Road District which eventually went on to become the City of Stirling. The Wanneroo Road Board first convened in 1902, became the Shire of Wanneroo in 1961, and gained City status on 31 October 1985. On 1 July 1998, it lost its coastal suburbs from Kinross southwards to the new City of Joondalup. Wanneroo briefly returned to shire status but regained its city status a year later, on 1 July 1999.	124,887	685.8 km² (264.8 sq mi)
Shire of Waroona	Waroona	1898	The district was originally controlled by the Murray Road Board (from 1887). In 1898, the Drakesbrook Road Board was gazetted. Years after the renaming of the town, on 19 May 1961, the Drakesbrook Road Board was renamed Waroona.	3,697	832.2 km² (321.3 sq mi)
Shire of West Arthur	Darkan	1896	In 1896, the West Arthur Road Board was gazetted. Its name is in relation to the former Arthur Road Board, renamed to Wagin in 1905.	890	2,834.2 km² (1,094.3 sq mi)
Shire of Westonia	Westonia	1916	The Westonia Road Board was gazetted in 1916.	230	3,304.4 km² (1,275.8 sq mi)
Shire of Wickepin	Wickepin	1909	The Wickepin Road Board was gazetted in 1909.	746	2,041.6 km² (788.3 sq mi)
Shire of Williams	Williams	1871	The Williams Road Board was gazetted in 1871.	935	2,305.7 km² (890.2 sq mi)
Shire of Wiluna	Wiluna	1909	The Wiluna Road Board was gazetted in 1909. On 1 July 1993, the eastern half of the Shire abutting the State's border with the Northern Territory was incorporated as the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku.	770	182,155.8 km² (70,330.7 sq mi)
Shire of Wongan-Ballidu	Wongan Hills	1887	The Melbourne Road Board (1887) was renamed to Wongan-Ballidu in 1926.	1,440	3,368.7 km² (1,300.7 sq mi)
Shire of Woodanilling	Woodanilling	1906	Woodanilling was gazetted as a Road Board in 1906.	432	1,129.0 km² (435.9 sq mi)
Shire of Wyalkatchem	Wyalkatchem	1920	In 1920, the Wyalkatchem Road Board was gazetted out of land previously administered by the Ninghan and Dowerin Road Boards.	580	1,595.4 km² (616.0 sq mi)
Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley	Kununurra	1887	The East Kimberley Road Board (1887) was renamed Wyndham in 1896. It became the Wyndham-East Kimberley Shire Council on 1 July 1961.	7,474	117,514 km² (45,372.4 sq mi)
Shire of Yalgoo	Yalgoo	1896	The original Yalgoo Road Board was gazetted in 1896, and merged with the Shire of Mullewa in August 1911. The Upper Murchison Road Board, gazetted in 1907, was renamed to Yalgoo in 1912.	272	28,214.6 km² (10,893.7 sq mi)
Shire of Yilgarn	Southern Cross	1918	The Yilgarn Road Board (1891) and the Southern Cross Municipal Council (1892) merged in 1918.	1,557	30,720 km² (11,861.1sq mi)
Shire of York	York	1965	The York Road Board (1871) and York Municipal Council (1871) merged on 15 March 1965.	3,352	2,132.7 km² (823.4 sq mi)