He was one of six candidates for the National nomination in this largely rural and safe National seat.
The results speak for themselves: Labour lost rural seats and could not take key marginals.
They aimed to hold on to their seven rural seats and also get members elected to the new upper house.
The Alberta Alliance had its best results in a number of rural seats where it managed to finish second.
Kerin was first elected as the member for the new rural seat of Frome at the 1993 state election.
It is one of Western Australia's three rural seats.
This rural seat was first established for the 1893 election.
This tactic helped them pick up a number of rural seats.
From Federation to 1911 a party of that name existed contesting rural seats.
At the 1899 election, Bowman ran again, this time in the rural south western seat of Warrego.