Bill Marmion, since 2008. Their son Scott Edwardes has been chosen as the Liberal candidate for the 2021 election. On his retirement in 2013, Kalgoorlie was won by National Wendy Duncan, and on her retirement in 2017, by current Liberal MP Kyran O'Donnell. The Labor candidate in 2017 is Hugh Jones. This electorate covers southern Perth suburbs on either side of Jandakot Airport including parts of Leeming and Canning Vale to the north, and Treeby, Harrisdale, Piara Waters and Forrestdale to the south-east. [41], A redistribution of electoral boundaries for the lower house was announced on 27 November 2019. He went further in 2017 by promising to lift some historically low mining royalty rates, generating a huge campaign against him by the mining lobby. The Labor candidate is Lisa Munday. West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has led the Labor Party to a resounding election victory that could leave the Liberal Party with as few as two seats in the state’s lower house. Mark McGowan’s Labor Party has pulled off an election result that is … Her Labor opponent in 2017 is Stuart Aubrey. The Liberal candidaten in 2021 is Michelle Boylan. Candidates were elected to single-member seats in the Legislative Assembly via full-preferential instant-runoff voting. The 2017 state election saw Labor win one of the most comprehensive victories on record at the state or territory level in Australia. 2021 Western Australia Election Predictions. Rebecca Le May NCA NewsWire March 9, 2021 2:19pm These seats … Ben Raue-March 13, 2021. ", Western Australian Electoral Commission: 2021 State General Election, ABC Elections: 2021 West Australian Election Guide, The Poll Bludger: Western Australian Election 2021, Elections and referendums in Western Australia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2021_Western_Australian_state_election&oldid=1022238956, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Last day for receipt of postal votes by 9, This page was last edited on 9 May 2021, at 10:22. Current MLA Ian Blayney first won Geraldton as a Liberal at the 2008 election, but two years ago defected to the National Party. It was a surprise Labor gain in 2001, but the introduction of one-vote one-value electoral boundaries ahead of the 2008 election brought surrounding rural areas into the seat, wiping out Labor's majority. Ten districts were not affected by boundary changes.[42]. It has been held since 2008 by Liberal Liza Harvey, who served as a senior minister and later Deputy Premier in the Barnett government. The seat and its neighbour, Darling Range, have occasionally replaced each other in redistributions and on a number of occasions have had members switch from one seat to the other. Murray-Wellington covers the mainly rural shires between Mandurah and Bunbury, but the major population centre is Leschenault and parts of Australind in the northern suburbs of Bunbury. Current Liberal MP Peter Katsambanis won the seat in 2017 after transferring from the Legislative Council, defeating the previous Liberal MP Rob Johnson who re-contested as an Independent. The seat was originally a Country Party seat but has been won by the Liberal Party at all but one election since 1962. There was one seat renamed in due to the boundary changes, with Girrawheen becoming the new district of Landsdale. The 2021 Western Australian state election was conducted on Saturday 13 March 2021 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, where all 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly and all 36 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. Below are the overall election prediction as well as electorate-level predictions. Nahan is retiring and the new Liberal candidate is Anthony Spagnolo opposed by Labor's Jagadish Krishnan. Inner north of Perth. The new Liberal Candidate is Melville Councillor Matthew Woodhall. Labor holds two seats while the Nationals and the Liberal Party hold one each. A massive swing of 18.9% delivered victory to Labor's Barry Urban at the 2017 election. Zak Kirkup at the launch of the West Australian Liberals’ 2021 election campaign in Perth. It has existed since 1996 and always been held by the Liberal Party. A previous seat with the same name existed from 1974 to 1989. The sitting Liberal MLA Dean Nalder is retiring after eight years in Parliament representing Alfred Cove and Bateman. Current MP and new Liberal Leader Zak Kirkup was first elected in 2017 on the defeat of the Barnett government. The new leader of the decimated Liberal Party in Western Australia already has the toughest job in politics and has now boldly vowed he will aim to win the next state election… Labor wins the WA election and Mark McGowan is returned as Premier, as Liberal Leader Zak Kirkup loses his own seat in a devastating night party members describe as a "disaster". Kierath lost his seat at the 2001 election while appearing as a main guest on the ABC's election night coverage. [1][2] Labor won 53 out of 59 of the seats in the Assembly, whilst the Liberals had a wipeout loss and won only two seats, which amounted to a negative-14% swing on the two-party preferred margin. He is the first WA major party leader to lose their own seat in 88 years. Nalder served as shadow Treasurer for most of the last four years, but shortly after withdrawing from contesting the Liberal Leadership against Zak Kirkup, announced he would not contest the 2021 election. Polling day in Western Australia is 13 March 2021. Their primary challengers were the opposition Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup, and the National Party, led by Mia Davies. 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The Greens were defending one seat. The new Labor candidate is Rebecca Stephens, opposed by Liberal Scott Leary and national Delma Baesjou. Riverton covers the inner southern suburbs of Perth, south of the Canning River, including Rossmoyne, Shelley, Riverton, Bull Creek, Willetton, parts of Brentwood and a part of Leeming south of Roe Highway. The election is, to date, the most decisive of any Australian state, territory or federal election result in terms of the proportion of seats in the lower house won by the governing party (89.8%),[4] and the two-party preferred margin (69.7%–30.3%). First contested at the 1989 election, Kinglsey has only been won twice by Labor - a surprise Labor gain on the re-election of the Gallop government in 2005, and won by Labor's Jessica Stojkovski after a 14.7% swing in 2017. The WA election has left the Liberals decimated and in the wilderness, facing a long road back By Jacob Kagi Posted 59 m minutes ago Sat Saturday 13 Mar March 2021 at 10:33pm , … To make a comment or suggest a change to the election site, please contact us. The Nationals will be keen to hold Geraldton and paint themselves as the better conservative party for rural and regional WA, with Labor likely to be the party's main opponent. [12] Labor also became the largest party in the Legislative Council with 14 of the 36 seats, ensuring it required at least five additional votes from non-government members to pass legislation. The Nationals won the remaining five seats. It is the sort of electorate where a hard working local member can build a significant personal vote. A vast Mining and Pastoral Region electorate centred on the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, the electorate also includes Coolgardie, Kambalda, Norseman and a string of rural and remote shires in the centre of the state. Polling day in Western Australia is 13 March 2021. Labor won 41 of the 59 seats in the Legislative Assembly—a 23-seat majority—both WA Labor's strongest result ever, and the largest government seat tally and largest government majority in Western Australian parliamentary history. [50], Electoral districts with a high proportion of persons working in clerical or administrative jobs swung more to Labor than the rest of the state (R2 = 0.12, p < 0.01). WA election 2021: Liberal Party faces tough leadership choice Western Australia Liberals 'go woke, go broke' Premier Mark McGowan won the West Australian election … The local elections held in 2021 were originally scheduled for 7 May 2020, but were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and held on 6 May 2021. It is one of only four electorates that has been contested at every WA election, and was held by Labor continuously from 1917 to 1991. [14], In the lead up to the election, Premier Mark McGowan had high approval ratings over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.