2013 Western Australian state election
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The 2013 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 9 March 2013 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council.
The incumbent Liberal–National Coalition government, led by Premier Colin Barnett, won a second consecutive four-year term in government, defeating the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Mark McGowan, in a landslide.[1][2][3][4] The Liberals alone won a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly for the first time since the election of 1996, retaining government with 31 seats. Labor won 21 seats and the Nationals won 7 seats. In the Legislative Council, the Liberals won 17 of the 36 seats.
Results
[edit]Legislative Assembly
[edit]
Western Australian state election, 9 March 2013[5] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 1,412,533 | |||||
Votes cast | 1,260,089 | Turnout | 89.21% | +2.73% | ||
Informal votes | 75,657 | Informal | 6.00% | +0.68% | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Liberal | 557,903 | 47.10 | +8.71 | 31 | +7 | |
Labor | 392,448 | 33.13 | –2.70 | 21 | –7 | |
Greens | 99,431 | 8.39 | –3.52 | 0 | ±0 | |
National | 71,694 | 6.05 | +1.18 | 7 | +3 | |
Christians | 21,451 | 1.81 | –0.77 | 0 | ±0 | |
Family First | 7,039 | 0.59 | –1.35 | 0 | ±0 | |
Independents | 34,466 | 2.91 | –1.44 | 0 | –3 | |
Total | 1,184,432 | 59 | ||||
Two-party-preferred | ||||||
Liberal | 678,231 | 57.29% | +5.44% | |||
Labor | 505,650 | 42.71% | –5.44% |
Legislative Council
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Western Australian state election, 9 March 2013 | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 1,412,533 | |||||
Votes cast | 1,260,929 | Turnout | 89.27% | +2.72% | ||
Informal votes | 35,706 | Informal | 2.83% | +0.00% | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Liberal | 583,500 | 47.62 | +8.02 | 17 | +1 | |
Labor | 398,260 | 32.51 | –3.63 | 11 | ± 0 | |
Greens | 100,624 | 8.21 | –2.87 | 2 | –2 | |
National | 59,804 | 4.88 | –0.44 | 5 | ± 0 | |
Christians | 23,877 | 1.95 | –0.37 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Shooters and Fishers | 21,765 | 1.78 | +1.78 | 1 | +1 | |
Family First | 16,760 | 1.37 | –1.15 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Independent | 20,633 | 1.68 | +0.21 | 0 | ± 0 | |
Total | 1,225,223 | 36 |
Summary of Assembly results
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Seats changing parties
[edit]Seat | Pre-2013 | Swing
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Post-2013 | ||||||
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Party | Member | Margin | Margin | Member | Party | ||||
Alfred Cove | Independent Liberal | Janet Woollard | 0.2* | N/A | 23.6** | Dean Nalder | Liberal | ||
Balcatta | Labor | John Kobelke | 2.2 | 9.5 | 7.3 | Chris Hatton | Liberal | ||
Belmont | Labor | Eric Ripper | 6.7 | 7.6 | 0.9 | Glenys Godfrey | Liberal | ||
Churchlands | Independent | Liz Constable | 23.5** | N/A | 20.2** | Sean L'Estrange | Liberal | ||
Forrestfield | Labor | Andrew Waddell | 0.2 | 2.3 | 2.1 | Nathan Morton | Liberal | ||
Fremantle | Independent | Adele Carles | 4.0** | N/A | 7.9* | Simone McGurk | Labor | ||
Joondalup | Labor | Tony O'Gorman | 3.3 | 7.8 | 4.5 | Jan Norberger | Liberal | ||
Kalgoorlie | Independent | John Bowler | 3.6*** | N/A | 6.3* | Wendy Duncan | National | ||
Morley | Labor | notional | 0.8 | 5.5 | 4.7 | Ian Britza | Liberal | ||
Perth | Labor | John Hyde | 7.7 | 10.3 | 2.6 | Eleni Evangel | Liberal | ||
Pilbara | Labor | Tom Stephens | 7.2 | 18.7 | 11.5 | Brendon Grylls | National |
- Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election.
- * figure is vs. Liberal
- ** figure is vs. Labor
- *** figure is vs. National
Background
[edit]At previous elections, the government was able to choose the date of an election, but on 3 November 2011, the government introduced fixed four-year terms, with elections being held every four years on the second Saturday in March.[6][7] This was the first election under the new system.
Key dates
[edit]- Issue of writ: 6 February[8]
- Nominations open: 7 February
- Close of party nominations: 12 noon, 14 February
- Close of rolls: 6 pm, 14 February
- Close of independent nominations: 12 noon, 15 February
- Postal voting commences: ?
- Pre-poll voting commences: 20 February
- Polling day: 9 March
- Return of writ: On or before 6 May
Seats held
[edit]Lower house
[edit]At the 2008 election, Labor won 28 seats, the Liberals won 24 seats, the Nationals won four seats, with three seats won by independents. Three changes have occurred since; the Greens won the seat of Fremantle off Labor at the 2009 by-election, Vince Catania in the seat of North West defected from Labor to the Nationals in July 2009,[9] and Fremantle MP Adele Carles resigned from the Greens in 2010, leaving Labor with 26 seats, the Liberals with 24 seats, the Nationals with five seats, while independents hold four seats.
Boundary changes took effect at this election. The only changes to the notional 2008 results were that the seat of Morley shifted from Liberal to Labor[10] and the seat of North West (renamed North West Central) shifted from Labor to National.[11]
Upper house
[edit]At the 2008 election, the Liberals won 16 seats, Labor won 11 seats, the Nationals won five seats, and the Greens won four seats.
Retiring MPs
[edit]Labor
[edit]- John Kobelke MLA (Balcatta)[12]
- Carol Martin MLA (Kimberley)[13]
- Eric Ripper MLA (Belmont)[12]
- Tom Stephens MLA (Pilbara)[12]
- Martin Whitely MLA (Bassendean)[14]
- Helen Bullock MLC (Mining and Pastoral Region)[15]
- Ed Dermer MLC (North Metropolitan Region)[16]
- Jon Ford MLC (Mining and Pastoral Region)[17]
- Linda Savage MLC (East Metropolitan Region)[18]
Liberal
[edit]- Norman Moore MLC (Mining and Pastoral Region)[19]
National
[edit]- Grant Woodhams MLA (Moore)[12]
Independent
[edit]- John Bowler MLA (Kalgoorlie)[20]
- Liz Constable MLA (Churchlands)[21]
2008 pendulum
[edit]The following Mackerras pendulum works by lining up all of the seats according to the percentage point margin post-election on a two-candidate-preferred basis.
Labor seats | |||
Marginal | |||
Albany | Peter Watson | ALP | 0.2 pp |
Forrestfield | Andrew Waddell | ALP | 0.2 pp |
Kwinana | Roger Cook | ALP | 0.8 pp v IND |
Collie-Preston | Mick Murray | ALP | 1.0 pp |
Balcatta | John Kobelke | ALP | 2.3 pp |
Joondalup | Tony O'Gorman | ALP | 3.5 pp |
Pilbara | Tom Stephens | ALP | 3.6 pp |
West Swan | Rita Saffioti | ALP | 4.4 pp |
Gosnells | Chris Tallentire | ALP | 5.5 pp |
Fairly safe | |||
Belmont | Eric Ripper | ALP | 6.7 pp |
Kimberley | Carol Martin | ALP | 6.8 pp |
Perth | John Hyde | ALP | 7.8 pp |
Midland | Michelle Roberts | ALP | 8.3 pp |
Mindarie | John Quigley | ALP | 8.5 pp |
Cannington | Bill Johnston | ALP | 9.0 pp |
Maylands | Lisa Baker | ALP | 9.0 pp |
Victoria Park | Ben Wyatt | ALP | 9.0 pp |
Cockburn | Fran Logan | ALP | 9.6 pp |
Warnbro | Paul Papalia | ALP | 9.7 pp |
Safe | |||
Bassendean | Martin Whitely | ALP | 10.3 pp |
Mandurah | David Templeman | ALP | 10.5 pp |
Rockingham | Mark McGowan | ALP | 10.6 pp |
Willagee | Peter Tinley | ALP | 10.6 pp v GRN |
Girrawheen | Margaret Quirk | ALP | 11.5 pp |
Nollamara | Janine Freeman | ALP | 12.7 pp |
Very safe | |||
Armadale | Tony Buti | ALP | 20.3 pp v CDP |
- 1.^ Elected as Labor member, defected to the Nationals in July 2009, margin is ALP v NAT.
- 2.^ Elected as Green member, resigned from The Greens in May 2010.
Polling
[edit]Newspoll polling is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes consist of around 1,100 electors. The declared margin of error is ±3 percent.
Voting intention
[edit]Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Primary vote | TPP vote | |||||||||
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Lib | Nat | ALP | Gre | Oth | Lib/Nat | ALP | ||||
2013 election | 47.1% | 6.1% | 33.1% | 8.4% | 5.3% | 57.3% | 42.7% | |||
4–7 Mar 2013 | 48% | 6% | 32% | 8% | 6% | 59.5% | 40.5% | |||
3–7 Feb 2013 | 45% | 6% | 35% | 8% | 6% | 57% | 43% | |||
Oct–Dec 2012 | 43% | 6% | 30% | 12% | 9% | 58% | 42% | |||
Jul–Sep 2012 | 43% | 5% | 30% | 12% | 10% | 57% | 43% | |||
Jan–Mar 2012 | 39% | 6% | 35% | 11% | 9% | 53% | 47% | |||
Oct–Dec 2011 | 46% | 4% | 29% | 12% | 9% | 59% | 41% | |||
Jul–Sep 2011 | 42% | 6% | 29% | 13% | 10% | 57% | 43% | |||
Apr–Jun 2011 | 43% | 6% | 30% | 12% | 9% | 57% | 43% | |||
Jan–Mar 2011 | 43% | 6% | 31% | 13% | 7% | 57% | 43% | |||
Oct–Dec 2010 | 42% | 7% | 29% | 13% | 9% | 58% | 42% | |||
Jul–Sep 2010 | 41% | 6% | 30% | 14% | 9% | 57% | 43% | |||
Apr–Jun 2010 | 38% | 6% | 32% | 16% | 8% | 54% | 46% | |||
Jan–Mar 2010 | 40% | 5% | 37% | 11% | 7% | 53% | 47% | |||
Jan–Mar 2009 | 42% | 5% | 33% | 13% | 7% | 55% | 45% | |||
2008 election | 38.4% | 4.9% | 35.8% | 11.9% | 9.0% | 51.9% | 48.1% | |||
2–4 Sep 2008 | 37% | 6% | 35% | 12% | 10% | 50% | 50% | |||
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian. |
Preferred Premier
[edit]Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Liberal Barnett |
Labor McGowan | |
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2013 election | – | – |
4–7 Mar 2013 | 52% | 31% |
3–7 Feb 2013 | 44% | 40% |
Oct–Dec 2012 | 48% | 29% |
Jul–Sep 2012 | 45% | 29% |
Jan–Mar 2012 | 43% | 30% |
Oct–Dec 2011 | 59% | 18%2 |
Jul–Sep 2011 | 56% | 22%2 |
Apr–Jun 2011 | 58% | 18%2 |
Jan–Mar 2011 | 56% | 17%2 |
Oct–Dec 2010 | 60% | 16%2 |
Jul–Sep 2010 | 61% | 17%2 |
Apr–Jun 2010 | 60% | 19%2 |
Jan–Mar 2010 | 58% | 19%2 |
Jan–Mar 2009 | 60% | 14%2 |
2008 election | – | – |
2–4 Sep 2008 | 35% | 48%1 |
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian. ^ Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader. 1 Alan Carpenter. 2 Eric Ripper. |
Approval ratings
[edit]Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
Barnett | McGowan | |||
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Satisfied | Dissatisfied | Satisfied | Dissatisfied | |
2013 election | – | – | – | – |
4–7 Mar 2013 | 51% | 36% | 49% | 29% |
3–7 Feb 2013 | 47% | 42% | 51% | 26% |
Oct–Dec 2012 | 49% | 37% | 44% | 26% |
Jul–Sep 2012 | 48% | 37% | 48% | 23% |
Jan–Mar 2012 | 51% | 33% | 43% | 17% |
Oct–Dec 2011 | 58% | 28% | 34%2 | 39%2 |
Jul–Sep 2011 | 51% | 35% | 34%2 | 43%2 |
Apr–Jun 2011 | 50% | 37% | 33%2 | 43%2 |
Jan–Mar 2011 | 54% | 33% | 31%2 | 44%2 |
Oct–Dec 2010 | 55% | 35% | 33%2 | 43%2 |
Jul–Sep 2010 | 56% | 32% | 34%2 | 42%2 |
Apr–Jun 2010 | 55% | 33% | 36%2 | 44%2 |
Jan–Mar 2010 | 51% | 34% | 33%2 | 43%2 |
Jan–Mar 2009 | 56% | 23% | 35%2 | 34%2 |
2008 election | – | – | – | – |
2–4 Sep 2008 | 40% | 43% | 42%1 | 48%1 |
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian. ^Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader. 1 Alan Carpenter. 2 Eric Ripper. |
Newspaper endorsements
[edit]Newspaper | Endorsement | |
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The Australian | Liberal[22] | |
The Australian Financial Review | Behind paywall[23] | |
The West Australian | Liberal |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "How the West was won: Landslide for Liberals". ABC News. 9 March 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2023 – via www.abc.net.au.
- ^ "Liberals elected in landslide victory". ABC News. 9 March 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2023 – via www.abc.net.au.
- ^ Staff Writer (11 March 2013). "WA's Liberal landslide good for miners". Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ "Landslide win for Liberals in Western Australia poll". RNZ. 10 March 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ "2013 State General Election Results". Western Australian Electoral Commission. 5 July 2013. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- ^ "New laws fix state election dates". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 November 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ Antony Green (8 February 2011). "Future election dates". Blogs.abc.net.au. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ "Election Timeline". Western Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ^ "Catania quits Labor to join Nationals: ABC News 20 July 2009". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 July 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ "Morley - 2013 Western Australian Election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ "North West Central - 2013 Western Australian Election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Woodhams retiring from politics". Au.news.yahoo.com. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ Mills, Vanessa (15 November 2012). "Carol Martin farewells parliamentary life". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Whitely bids for Senate in challenge to Bullock". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Labor man slams Senate as 'unionists' retirement home'". The Australian. 30 July 2012.
- ^ "Labor puts pressure on older MPs to retire". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "MP Jon Ford to retire at next election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Port Hedland Mayor to take on Grylls". Yahoo. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ Courtney Trenwith (1 February 2012). "Father of WA Politics Norman Moore To Retire". Watoday.com.au. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Kalgoorlie MP Bowler retires from politics". Au.news.yahoo.com. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "Retiring MP Constable not bitter about dumping". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ Tyldesley, Hazel (8 March 2013). "Tackling Canberra works for Barnett in the west". The Australian. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ Tyldesley, Hazel. "The challenge for Liberal governments". The Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 9 March 2013.