Ī redistribution in 2006 moved the boundaries west to take in Cowra, Grenfell and the vast north-west of New South Wales from Brewarrina to Menindee, making Calare New South Wales's largest electorate. Andren was not a candidate for the 2007 election: he intended to run for a Senate seat but was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 and died during the election campaign. On these boundaries it was notionally a marginal seat between the Australian Labor Party (which held it 1983–96) and the National Party, but it was held comfortably by an independent, Peter Andren, from 1996 to 2007. Subsequent boundary changes moved it eastwards to encompass Bathurst, Lithgow and Oberon. The division originally encompassed Forbes, Orange and Parkes. The Aboriginal name is pronounced Kal- ah-ree, but the pronunciation Kul- air is established for the division. The division was first contested at the 1906 election created to replace the abolished Division of Canobolas, and is named for the local Aboriginal name for the Lachlan River, which runs through the western part of the division. The Lachlan River, the Aboriginal name of which is the division's namesake
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