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1989 Western Australian state election

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Field	Value
election_name	1989 Western Australian state election
country	Western Australia
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1986 Western Australian state election
previous_year	1986
next_election	1993 Western Australian state election
next_year	1993
seats_for_election	All 57 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
and all 34 seats to the Western Australian Legislative Council
29 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
election_date
image1	[[File:Peter Dowding.jpg	100px]]
leader1	Peter Dowding
leader_since1	25 February 1988
party1	Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)
leaders_seat1	Maylands
popular_vote1	341,931
percentage1	42.46%
swing1	10.54
last_election1	32 seats
seats1	31
seat_change1	1
image2	[[File:No image.png	100px]]
leader2	Barry MacKinnon
leader_since2	25 November 1986
party2	Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)
leaders_seat2	Jandakot
popular_vote2	344,524
percentage2	42.79%
swing2	1.47
last_election2	19 seats
seats2	20
seat_change2	1
image3	[[File:No image.png	100px]]
leader3	Hendy Cowan
leader_since3	1979
party3	National Party of Australia (WA)
leaders_seat3	Merredin
popular_vote3	37,075
percentage3	4.60%
swing3	0.89
last_election3	6 seats
seats3	6
seat_change3
1blank	TPP
2blank	TPP swing
1data1	47.62%
1data2	52.38%
2data1	6.50
2data2	6.50
title	Premier
before_election	Peter Dowding
before_party	Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)
after_election	Peter Dowding
after_party	Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)

and all 34 seats to the Western Australian Legislative Council 29 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 4 February 1989 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The Labor government, led by Premier Peter Dowding, won a third term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Barry MacKinnon.

The result was a major swing against the Labor Party, coming in the wake of revelations of dealings between Government and business that came to be known as WA Inc. The redistribution that took place in 1988, based upon the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987 which abolished several country and outer metropolitan electorates while creating new metropolitan ones, makes it difficult to assess how Labor would have performed on the old boundaries—while it lost four seats, it gained one Liberal-held seat and won several of the new seats, so in net terms, it only lost one seat despite the massive swing and the low two-party-preferred result.

This was the first election in WA contested by the Australian Greens Party.

Results

Legislative Assembly

| turnout % = 90.73% | informal % = 7.35% |votes % = 42.46% |votes % = 42.79% |votes % = 4.60% |votes % = 5.16% |votes % = 1.43% |votes % = 0.53% |votes % = 0.13% |votes % = 2.90% |2pp % 1 = 47.62% |2pp % 2 = 52.38% |}

Legislative Council

| turnout % = 90.92% | informal % = 2.76% |votes % = 41.05% |votes % = 41.33% |votes % = 5.00% |votes % = 4.02% |votes % = 3.32% |votes % = 3.19% |votes % = 0.87% |votes % = 1.22% |}

Seats changing parties

Seat	Post-1989	Party	Member	Margin	Margin	Member	Party
Collie	Labor	Tom Jones	4.2*	7.1	2.9**	Hilda Turnbull	National
Kingsley	Labor	notional	N/A	N/A	7.6	Cheryl Edwardes	Liberal
Mandurah	Labor	John Read	9.4	10.5	1.1	Roger Nicholls	Liberal
Melville	Labor	Barry Hodge	19.5	19.6	0.1	Doug Shave	Liberal
Murray	Liberal	notional	N/A	N/A	0.9	Keith Read	Labor
Riverton	Labor	notional	N/A	N/A	4.5	Graham Kierath	Liberal
Roe	Liberal	notional	N/A	N/A	1.0***	Ross Ainsworth	National
Roleystone	Labor	notional	N/A	N/A	1.7	Fred Tubby	Liberal
Scarborough	Labor	Graham Burkett	10.3	11.9	1.6	George Strickland	Liberal
Warren	Labor	David Evans	–1.0	9.8	10.8	Paul Omodei	Liberal

A redistribution prior to the election had made the Labor-held seat of Warren notionally Liberal
Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election.
- figure is vs. National
** figure is vs. Labor
*** figure is vs. Liberal

Post-election pendulum

References

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