Live: WA election count set to get underway as voters cast their ballots
Labor re-elected in WA, Basil Zempilas wins Churchlands, as it happened
For anybody who wants to follow along over the next couple days.
People assumed Libs would get back to close to 2017 levels, which is still a very solid Labor victory. But they are nowhere those figures.
Yep, even if only for perception value. If the Liberals had a strong showing tonight that would have impacted Federal Labors 'confidence'.
I reckon we're about to see a whole lot more of Dutton over this way in the next few weeks.
19:45 and ABC have called it for Labor.
Wtf, i's definitely expecting it to take a little longer tonight. I suppose there's still lots of seats in play though, i just expected more seats to be more marginal than they seem to have turned out.
A little compare the pair for everyone.
Lessons learned from the night by two prominent Liberals, (i'm paraphrasing)
Steve Thomas: You can't out-left the Labor party, we weren't conservative enough.
Ken Wyatt: You need to go for a broad swathe of the electorate. You have to go to your electorate and listen to them. Elections are won from the middle.
Two different views, as ever nowadays the Liberals seem like a split party. I think the coneservatives need their more moderate peers more than they'd like to acknowledge. But i suppose we'll see with the Federal election as well.
As usual i reckon Kens on the money with this one.
Steve is not reading the room. True, not many districts voted for the Liberal party, but they weren't voting farther right than the Libs.
Ken has the right of it. I've always thought he was an odd fit for the Liberals. He's too progressive. He resigned from the party last year so he could vote Yes in the referendum. He is actually well regarded in Midland, he'd probably do well running as an independent.
Ken Wyatts certainly got the name recognition, and especially after the Voice referendum, the personal credibility to run as independent.
The impact of Live Sheep Exports will be interesting.
Maybe WA Labor's strategy of trying to distance themselves from it, instead of defending the policy has hurt them. Ceding the ground and any debate to the issue's supporters.
Is it really a state govt issue though?
Has it been a state liberal talking point?
No, my thoughts were simply because the elections are so close together. And the election blog interviewed a regional Labor voter who went Nationals today over it. So its there.
That is such a cool little part of this!
An even better idea we should turn the corflutes into basic drones, send them to Ukrainians to chuck at the Russian invaders.
I feel there'd be something poetic about all the corflutes of an Aussie election flying towards the speartip of an oppressive regime.
I'm really loving this on: A super safe Labor seat with a 27% margin, and they look like losing it. I hope they lose it.
Kate Hulett is running on a platform of Climate action, Equality and anti corruption (especially regarding politicians moving between politics and industry roles). I think the Liberal party may have stuffed this up a bit. I don't think this particular independent would be preferred for them than the sitting Labor member. They just followed their modus operandi and put Labor behind the independents.
Looks like we got the liberal candidate Tom Brough in Albany.
Last time our Labor Candidate Rebecca Stevens won by 11%.
Big swing to Liberal. I'm incredibly disappointed.
Isn't that the nutjob homophobe one?
I'm a little surprised. Didn't think Albany would go for him
Yeah that's him.
Anti-abortion, anti-lgbtiq, repulsive personality.
I'm also surprised and greatly saddened.
Albany has always been a conservative demographic. I think we've been Labor for so long merely by virtue of our former Labor candidate Peter Watson being so well known and being a boomer.
Unfortunately Broughs conservative social ideas obviously resonate with a lot of voters.
That, and low information voters who saw all his advertising showing him in Dr scrubs, and thought voting for a Dr would fix their poor health.
Libs were promising a major hospital upgrade to Albany. That may have swayed some votes.
Interesting that the swing against Labor has gone more to Greens than Liberals.