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WA state election 2021: Perthâs golden triangle looks to fall to Labor in surprising seat distribution Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Laborâs return to power was no surprise but seat by seat this election revealed some of the biggest surprises in WAâs political history. Liberal strongholds have fallen, pushing the party into the political abyss, while several Labor seats have blown pollster predictions apart in what was the partyâs best result in Australian history. WAtoday has looked at the vote count as it stands at the end of election night and picked the seats where we got the biggest surprise outside of the headline-making defeats in Dawesville, Riverton, Scarborough and Hillarys. ....
WA election s biggest losers and who replaced them in Liberal annihilation SunSunday 14 updated SunSunday 14 Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup faces media after conceding defeat. ( Share Print text only Cancel A history-making Labor victory has all but wiped out the WA Liberal party, turning many seats red for the very first time. The Liberals could be left with as few as two seats in the Legislative Assembly meaning the party has failed to get the numbers to form Opposition. So, who are the biggest losers? It s a long list of Liberal names. Dawesville Loser: Zak Kirkup (LIB) Paramedic and psychologist Lisa Munday pulled off what many would have thought impossible not long ago when she unseated Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup. ....
How the Liberal Party lost its way in WA The party sinks to all-time low as recriminations begin and Labor moves deep into what was the conservative heartland. Premier-elect Mark McGowan and family in Rockingham on Sunday. Share The sea of red that swept across the bluest of Perth seats on Saturday left even the most staunch supporters of the McGowan government stunned. McGowan was always expected to win. But no one thought a seat like Nedlands, once held by Liberal royalty in Sir Charles Court and then his son Richard when he was premier, was really in danger. Now the local electorate of the nation’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, is in danger of falling into Labor hands with its candidate, social worker Dr Katrina Stratton, in just in front as counting continues. ....
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