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Results of the 1986 Western Australian state election (Legislative Council)

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Western Australian state election, 8 February 1986
Legislative Council

Enrolled voters 883,239
Votes cast 807,496 Turnout 91.42% +2.44%
Informal votes 26,530 Informal 3.29% –0.43%
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats
won 		Seats
held
  Labor 352,437 45.13% –5.50% 9 15
  Liberal 327,786 41.97% +0.40% 6 15
  National 37,194 4.76% –1.59% 2 4
  Democrats 63,483 8.13% +6.68% 0 0
  Independent 66 0.01% +0.01% 0 0
Total 780,966     17 34
Two-party-preferred
  Labor 418,124 53.54% +0.57%
  Liberal 361,160 46.25% –0.57%

This is a list of electoral region results for the Western Australian Legislative Council in the 1986 Western Australian state election.

Results by Electoral province

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Central

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1986 Western Australian state election: Central Province[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Harry Gayfer 11,629 45.5 +21.5
Liberal John Panizza 7,258 28.4 +2.3
Labor Kim Chance 6,660 26.1 −2.2
Total formal votes 25,547 98.0 +1.5
Informal votes 525 2.0 −1.5
Turnout 26,072 94.2 +4.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
National Harry Gayfer 13,216 51.7 +51.7
Liberal John Panizza 12,331 48.3 −17.3
National hold Swing N/A

Lower Central

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1986 Western Australian state election: Lower Central Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Bird 9,638 38.3 −7.2
Liberal Sandy Lewis 8,791 34.9 +6.8
National Eric Blight 5,815 23.1 −3.4
Democrats Violet Fussell 927 3.7 +3.7
Total formal votes 25,171 97.4 +0.2
Informal votes 659 2.6 −0.2
Turnout 25,830 94.2 +2.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Sandy Lewis 14,122 56.1 +4.3
Labor John Bird 11,049 43.9 −4.3
Liberal hold Swing +4.3

Lower North

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1986 Western Australian state election: Lower North Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Phil Lockyer 4,083 59.0 +0.6
Labor Lesley-Ann Hoare 2,299 33.2 −5.9
Democrats Kenneth Winder 472 6.8 +6.8
Independent Francesco Nesci 66 1.0 −1.5
Total formal votes 6,920 95.2 +0.2
Informal votes 346 4.8 −0.2
Turnout 7,266 82.4 +1.3
Liberal hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Lower West

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1986 Western Australian state election: Lower West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Pratt 15,221 46.7 −2.2
Labor Beryl Jones 15,185 46.6 +3.7
Democrats Shirley de la Hunty 2,210 6.8 −1.4
Total formal votes 32,616 97.3 +0.2
Informal votes 910 2.7 −0.2
Turnout 33,526 93.4 +2.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Beryl Jones 16,359 50.2 +3.7
Liberal Ian Pratt 16,257 49.8 −3.7
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +3.7

Metropolitan

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1986 Western Australian state election: Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Max Evans 41,833 52.4 −4.0
Democrats Jack Evans 33,642 42.2 +42.2
Independent Labor Patrick Finn 4,309 5.4 +5.4
Total formal votes 79,784 96.7 −0.3
Informal votes 2,726 3.3 +0.3
Turnout 82,510 89.5 +3.3
Liberal hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

North

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1986 Western Australian state election: North Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Helm 14,319 58.5 −6.7
Labor Frank Butler 8,855 36.2 +36.2
Democrats Helen Aquilina 1,293 5.3 +5.3
Total formal votes 24,467 94.1 −1.6
Informal votes 1,541 5.9 +1.6
Turnout 26,008 78.9 −8.6
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

North Central Metropolitan

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1986 Western Australian state election: North Central Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joe Berinson 41,580 59.5 −0.5
Liberal Frank Hansford-Miller 25,105 35.9 −4.1
Democrats Jean Foster 3,219 4.6 +4.6
Total formal votes 69,904 96.1 +0.2
Informal votes 2,836 3.9 −0.2
Turnout 72,740 92.3 +4.5
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

North Metropolitan

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1986 Western Australian state election: North Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor John Halden 41,060 49.0 −1.5
Liberal Peter Wells 36,815 43.9 −2.1
Democrats Jean Jenkins 5,983 7.1 +4.6
Total formal votes 83,858 97.5 +1.0
Informal votes 2,168 2.5 −1.0
Turnout 86,026 92.5 +3.8
Two-party-preferred result
Labor John Halden 44,322 52.9
Liberal Peter Wells 39,536 47.1
Labor gain from Liberal Swing N/A

North-East Metropolitan

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1986 Western Australian state election: North-East Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tom Butler 52,785 61.5 −2.0
Liberal Robert Nicholson 28,113 32.8 +0.1
Democrats Fred Long 4,901 5.7 +1.9
Total formal votes 85,799 95.9 +2.0
Informal votes 3,667 4.1 −2.0
Turnout 89,466 92.0 +3.3
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

South

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1986 Western Australian state election: South Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Thomas Knight 11,571 44.0 +7.9
National John Caldwell 7,427 28.3 +9.5
Labor Albert Newman 7,282 27.7 +0.5
Total formal votes 26,280 97.2 +0.5
Informal votes 640 2.8 −0.5
Turnout 26,920 93.6 +3.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
National John Caldwell 13,781 52.4 +52.4
Liberal Thomas Knight 12,499 47.6 −19.1
National gain from Liberal Swing N/A

South Central Metropolitan

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1986 Western Australian state election: South Central Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Phillip Pendal 31,320 51.8 +1.9
Labor John Bissett 24,814 41.0 −3.7
Democrats Alan Needham 4,347 7.2 +1.7
Total formal votes 60,481 97.2 +0.6
Informal votes 1,736 2.8 −0.6
Turnout 62,217 90.9 +2.6
Liberal hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

South East

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1986 Western Australian state election: South-East Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Brown 11,801 60.1 +0.1
Liberal Douglas Krepp 7,826 39.9 −0.1
Total formal votes 19,627 95.9 −0.6
Informal votes 840 4.1 +0.6
Turnout 20,467 89.5 +1.0
Labor hold Swing +0.1

South Metropolitan

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1986 Western Australian state election: South Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Garry Kelly 51,141 69.8 +0.1
Liberal Alan Harste 22,126 30.2 −0.1
Total formal votes 73,267 96.3 +0.4
Informal votes 2,814 3.7 −0.4
Turnout 76,081 92.3 −0.1
Labor hold Swing +0.1

South-East Metropolitan

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1986 Western Australian state election: South-East Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bob Hetherington 44,649 55.1 −4.5
Liberal Jonathan Shack 33,428 41.2 +0.8
Democrats Douglas Gettingby 2,983 3.7 +3.7
Total formal votes 81,060 96.8 −0.1
Informal votes 2,690 3.2 +0.1
Turnout 83,750 92.3 +3.3
Labor hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

South West

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1986 Western Australian state election: South-West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal James Dwyer 13,948 48.5 −2.4
Labor Doug Wenn 13,516 47.0 −2.1
Democrats Janice Bowen 1,302 4.5 +4.5
Total formal votes 28,766 97.4 +0.4
Informal votes 764 2.6 −0.4
Turnout 29,530 93.3 +1.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Doug Wenn 14,418 50.1 +1.0
Liberal James Dwyer 14,348 49.9 −1.0
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +1.0

Upper West

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1986 Western Australian state election: Upper West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Margaret McAleer 16,245 56.9 +21.4
National Sue Shields 12,323 43.1 −3.2
Total formal votes 28,568 96.8 0.0
Informal votes 954 3.2 0.0
Turnout 29,522 92.1 +2.7
Liberal hold Swing +8.4

West

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1986 Western Australian state election: West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Gordon Masters 15,248 52.8 −0.9
Labor Nadeem Ramsay 11,399 39.5 −6.8
Democrats Kenneth Goodman 2,204 7.6 +7.6
Total formal votes 28,851 97.6 −0.3
Informal votes 714 2.4 +0.3
Turnout 29,565 91.8 +2.6
Liberal hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics 1890-1989 (Rev. ed.). Perth, W.A.: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0730936414.
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