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2013 Western Australian state election

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Field	Value
election_name	2013 Western Australian state election
country	Western Australia
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
vote_type	First preference
previous_election	2008 Western Australian state election
previous_year	2008
next_election	2017 Western Australian state election
next_year	2017
seats_for_election	All 59 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
and all 36 members in the Western Australian Legislative Council
30 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
election_date	9 March 2013
image1	[[File:Colin Barnett (formal) crop b.jpg	150x150px]]
leader1	Colin Barnett
leader_since1
party1	Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)
leaders_seat1	Cottesloe
popular_vote1	557,903
percentage1	47.10%
swing1	8.71
last_election1	24 seats
seats_needed1	6
seats_before1	24
seats1	31
seat_change1	7
image2	[[File:Mark McGowan headshot.jpg	150x150px]]
leader2	Mark McGowan
leader_since2
party2	Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)
leaders_seat2	Rockingham
popular_vote2	392,448
percentage2	33.13%
swing2	2.70
last_election2	28 seats
seats_needed2	4
seats_before2	26
seats2	21
seat_change2	5
image3	[[File:Brendon Grylls b.jpg	150x150px]]
leader3	Brendon Grylls
leader_since3
party3	National Party of Australia (WA)
leaders_seat3	Central Wheatbelt
(won Pilbara)
popular_vote3	71,694
percentage3	6.05%
swing3	1.18
last_election3	4 seats
seats_needed3	25
seats_before3	5
seats3	7
seat_change3	2
1blank	TPP
2blank	TPP swing
1data1	57.29%
2data1	5.44
1data2	42.71%
2data2	5.44
title	Premier
posttitle	Elected Premier
before_election	Colin Barnett
before_party	Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)
after_election	Colin Barnett
after_party	Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division)
map_image	2013 Western Australian election - Vote Strength.svg
map_caption	The map on the left shows the first party preference by electorate. The map on the right shows the final two-party preferred vote result by electorate.
map_size	400px

and all 36 members in the Western Australian Legislative Council 30 Assembly seats were needed for a majority

(won Pilbara)

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. 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

Legislative Assembly

Winning party by electorate.

| turnout % = 89.21% | informal % = 6.00%

|votes % = 47.10 |votes % = 33.13 |votes % = 8.39 |votes % = 6.05 |votes % = 1.81 |votes % = 0.59 |votes % = 2.91 |2pp % 1 = 57.29% |2pp % 2 = 42.71% |}

Legislative Council

Legislative Council results per region in the 2013 state general election

| turnout % = 89.27% | informal % = 2.83% |votes % = 47.62 |votes % = 32.51 |votes % = 8.21 |votes % = 4.88 |votes % = 1.95 |votes % = 1.78 |votes % = 1.37 |votes % = 1.68 |}

Summary of Assembly results

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Seats changing parties

Seat	Post-2013	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

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. This was the first election under the new system.

Key dates

Issue of writ: 6 February
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

Lower house

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, 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 and the seat of North West (renamed North West Central) shifted from Labor to National.

Upper house

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

Labor

John Kobelke MLA (Balcatta)
Carol Martin MLA (Kimberley)
Eric Ripper MLA (Belmont)
Tom Stephens MLA (Pilbara)
Martin Whitely MLA (Bassendean)
Helen Bullock MLC (Mining and Pastoral Region)
Ed Dermer MLC (North Metropolitan Region)
Jon Ford MLC (Mining and Pastoral Region)
Linda Savage MLC (East Metropolitan Region)

Liberal

Norman Moore MLC (Mining and Pastoral Region)

National

Grant Woodhams MLA (Moore)

Independent

John Bowler MLA (Kalgoorlie)
Liz Constable MLA (Churchlands)

2008 pendulum

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.

Churchlands	Liz Constable	IND	23.5 pp v ALP

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.

Post-election pendulum

Margins with an asterisk (*) indicate seats that have a different 2-candidate-preferred result other than Labor v. Liberal/National. The 2cp result for each seat is below the table.

North West Central had a 2CP margin of 9.7% NAT v LIB.
Warren-Blackwood had a 2CP margin of 3.1% NAT v LIB.
Kalgoorlie had a 2CP margin of 6.3% NAT v LIB.
Central Wheatbelt had a 2CP margin of 7.9% NAT v LIB.
Geraldton had a 2CP margin of 10.9% LIB v NAT.
Moore had a 2CP margin of 5.9% NAT v LIB.
Eyre had a 2CP margin of 0.4% LIB v NAT.
Wagin had a 2CP margin of 26.9% NAT v LIB.
Kwinana had a 2CP margin of 2.6% ALP v IND.

Polling

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

Primary vote	TPP vote	Lib	Nat	ALP	Gre	Oth
47.1%	6.1%	33.1%	8.4%	5.3%	57.3%	42.7%
48%	6%	32%	8%	6%	59.5%	40.5%
45%	6%	35%	8%	6%	57%	43%
43%	6%	30%	12%	9%	58%	42%
43%	5%	30%	12%	10%	57%	43%
39%	6%	35%	11%	9%	53%	47%
46%	4%	29%	12%	9%	59%	41%
42%	6%	29%	13%	10%	57%	43%
43%	6%	30%	12%	9%	57%	43%
43%	6%	31%	13%	7%	57%	43%
42%	7%	29%	13%	9%	58%	42%
41%	6%	30%	14%	9%	57%	43%
38%	6%	32%	16%	8%	54%	46%
40%	5%	37%	11%	7%	53%	47%
42%	5%	33%	13%	7%	55%	45%
38.4%	4.9%	35.8%	11.9%	9.0%	51.9%	48.1%
37%	6%	35%	12%	10%	50%	50%
[Polling](https://web.archive.org/web/20080719023230/http://www.newspoll.com.au/cgi-bin/polling/display_poll_data.pl?url_caller=&mode=trend&page=show_polls&question_set_id=15) conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian.

Preferred Premier

Liberal
Barnett	Labor
McGowan	2013 election	4–7 Mar 2013	3–7 Feb 2013	Oct–Dec 2012	Jul–Sep 2012	Jan–Mar 2012	Oct–Dec 2011	Jul–Sep 2011	Apr–Jun 2011	Jan–Mar 2011	Oct–Dec 2010	Jul–Sep 2010	Apr–Jun 2010	Jan–Mar 2010	Jan–Mar 2009	[2008 election](2008-western-australian-state-election)	2–4 Sep 2008
–	–
52%	31%
44%	40%
48%	29%
45%	29%
43%	30%
59%	18%2
56%	22%2
58%	18%2
56%	17%2
60%	16%2
61%	17%2
60%	19%2
58%	19%2
60%	14%2
–	–
35%	48%1
[Polling](https://web.archive.org/web/20080719023230/http://www.newspoll.com.au/cgi-bin/polling/display_poll_data.pl?url_caller=&mode=trend&page=show_polls&question_set_id=15) conducted by Newspoll
and published in The Australian.
^ Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader.
1 Alan Carpenter.
2 Eric Ripper.

Approval ratings

Barnett	McGowan	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
–	–	–	–
51%	36%	49%	29%
47%	42%	51%	26%
49%	37%	44%	26%
48%	37%	48%	23%
51%	33%	43%	17%
58%	28%	34%2	39%2
51%	35%	34%2	43%2
50%	37%	33%2	43%2
54%	33%	31%2	44%2
55%	35%	33%2	43%2
56%	32%	34%2	42%2
55%	33%	36%2	44%2
51%	34%	33%2	43%2
56%	23%	35%2	34%2
–	–	–	–
40%	43%	42%1	48%1
[Polling](https://web.archive.org/web/20110216074731/http://www.newspoll.com.au/cgi-bin/polling//display_poll_data.pl?url_caller=trend&mode=trend&page=show_polls&question_set_id=15) conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian.
^Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader.
1 Alan Carpenter.
2 Eric Ripper.

Newspaper endorsements

Newspaper	Endorsement
The Australian
The Australian Financial Review
The West Australian

References

(9 March 2013). "How the West was won: Landslide for Liberals". ABC News.
(9 March 2013). "Liberals elected in landslide victory". ABC News.
Staff Writer. (11 March 2013). "WA's Liberal landslide good for miners".
(10 March 2013). "Landslide win for Liberals in Western Australia poll".
(5 July 2013). "2013 State General Election Results". [[Western Australian Electoral Commission]].
(3 November 2011). "New laws fix state election dates". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Antony Green. (8 February 2011). "Future election dates". Blogs.abc.net.au.
"Election Timeline". Western Australian Electoral Commission.
(20 July 2009). "Catania quits Labor to join Nationals: ABC News 20 July 2009". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Morley - 2013 Western Australian Election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"North West Central - 2013 Western Australian Election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(4 April 2012). "Woodhams retiring from politics". Au.news.yahoo.com.
Mills, Vanessa. (15 November 2012). "Carol Martin farewells parliamentary life". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(23 July 2012). "Whitely bids for Senate in challenge to Bullock". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(30 July 2012). "Labor man slams Senate as 'unionists' retirement home'". The Australian.
(3 January 2012). "Labor puts pressure on older MPs to retire". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(21 March 2012). "MP Jon Ford to retire at next election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(22 May 2012). "Port Hedland Mayor to take on Grylls". Yahoo.
Courtney Trenwith. (1 February 2012). "Father of WA Politics Norman Moore To Retire". Watoday.com.au.
(1 November 2012). "Kalgoorlie MP Bowler retires from politics". Au.news.yahoo.com.
(16 October 2012). "Retiring MP Constable not bitter about dumping". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Tyldesley, Hazel. (8 March 2013). "Tackling Canberra works for Barnett in the west". The Australian.
Tyldesley, Hazel. "The challenge for Liberal governments". [[The Australian Financial Review]].

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The Australian
The Australian Financial Review
The West Australian