The Western Australian branch of the ALP has posted an expurgated version of a report conducted by former Senator Robert Ray into its recent state election defeat. The highlights for mine are as follows:
• Ray cites various elections over the past year-and-a-bit to observe that the advantages of incumbency are clearly not what they used [...]
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Category Archives: WA Election 2008
Wild west wash-up
Thursday, September 18, 2008 – 2:45 pm
Upper house results from the Western Australian election are coming through this afternoon, and we will also have Premier-elect Colin Barnett announce his new cabinet. The first upper house result comes from Mining and Pastoral, which has gone two Labor (Jon Ford and Helen Bullock), two Liberal (Norman Moore and Ken Baston), one Nationals (Wendy [...]
Hat safe, trumpet blown
Monday, September 15, 2008 – 1:18 am
The Western Australian Electoral Commission has completed its weekend preference distributions from seats in doubt, providing Labor with a small degree of consolation through wins in Albany (a heroic effort by sitting member Peter Watson, who picked up a 2.6 per cent swing to retain his notionally Liberal seat) and Kwinana (believed last week to [...]
The longest day
Sunday, September 14, 2008 – 3:58 am
UPDATE (9.30pm): Liberals win Nedlands by 987 votes.
UPDATE (9pm): Janet Woollard wins Alfred Cove by 405 votes. Liberals win Morley by 340. Labor wins Collie-Preston by 411. Labor wins Kwinana by 300. Only Nedlands to go, where the Liberals are believed to be home and hosed.
UPDATE (3pm): Alan Carpenter resigns as Labor leader.
UPDATE (11.30am): Nationals [...]
Westpoll: Liberal favoured for Nationals alliance
Saturday, September 13, 2008 – 2:05 am
The West Australian has published a Westpoll survey of 400 respondents, of whom 181 (exact figures provided) said they preferred that the Nationals form an alliance with the Liberals against 129 who preferred Labor (44 per cent to 32 per cent). Of the former group, “33 per cent said they believed National voters were traditionally [...]
Photo finishes (lower house): episode three
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 – 11:01 pm
Labor needs to win four out of these five to be in a position to form a majority if John Bowler and Carol Adams (assuming she wins) support them.
ELECTION NIGHT
LATEST
ALP
LIB
Total
ALP
LIB
Total
Riverton
8002
8034
16036
9534
9602
19136
Wanneroo
7299
7293
14592
10769
11014
21783
Albany
8182
8065
16247
9629
9572
19201
Forrestfield
8177
7935
16112
9581
9450
19031
Collie-Preston
8299
7883
16182
9909
9488
19397
Riverton. Going into the election with a 2.1 per cent margin, Labor’s Tony McRae has done remarkably well to remain in the hunt while some neighbouring [...]
Photo finishes (lower house) – take two
Monday, September 8, 2008 – 3:07 pm
NOTE: I’m reposting this in the hope the thread in the hope it might be used specifically for commenting on the results. More general discussion can be directed to the other threads.
EXPLANATORY NOTE: Assuming no late-count surprises (which do happen), Labor needs to win four out of these five to be in a position to [...]
WA election plus two days
Monday, September 8, 2008 – 7:45 am
• The image below indicates the notional margins in metropolitan seats going into the election, and the results as of the close of count on election night. Click on the image to toggle between the two. Colour coding runs from very light for below 2 per cent to very heavy for above 15 per cent. [...]
Photo finishes (upper house)
Sunday, September 7, 2008 – 10:08 pm
This post will progressively follow the count for the Western Australian Legislative Council.
Wednesday 1pm. In response to a reader’s inquiry I have written a more detailed assessment of South West, which runs as follows. South West is on the cusp of a three-all and four-right two-left result. On the right, the Liberals have won two [...]
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