Talk:Division of Kalgoorlie

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This says "largest electoral district in the world." That's no doubt true in the way we normally think of things, but it's come to my attention that, for example, the Italian parliament has seats for Italian nationals living abroad, with the districts they represent encompassing entire continents. Do we reword or is this too nitpicky? - Montréalais 08:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Is it true to say that this is the largest electorate in the world electing a single member to a legislative body? If you include multi-member electorates, then Western Australia in the Senate is bigger. Is Sakha in Russia and the Overseas electorate in the Italian Senate like this? --ThirdEdition 01:26, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Still need an authoritative source for the two statements that DoK is largest and Nunavut (electoral district) is second. Otherwise, it's just "the largest that Wikipedia editors were able to find". Also see Talk:Kalgoorlie. --Mathew5000 16:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Well, it shouldn't be impossible to ascertain this. The Division of Kalgoorlie is larger than all but 12 countries in the world, one of which is Australia itself. We also know that the DoK is larger than Nunavut (Canada's largest constituency) and Alaska (the largest district in the United States House of Representatives). The Italian overseas constituency should probably be disqualified because it's not a single-member district. On the other hand, Sakha might be a single-member constituency; someone more familiar with Russian politics may be needed to help with this. --Metropolitan90 04:06, 8 October 2007 (UTC)