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词条 List of Western Australian Legislative Assembly elections
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  1. Summary of results

     Elections prior to political parties  Notes 

  2. Interpretation issues

  3. References

  4. See also

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2011}}{{Use Australian English|date=October 2011}}

This article provides a summary of results for elections to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, the lower house in Western Australia's bicameral state legislative body, the Parliament of Western Australia, which came into being in 1890 when Western Australia achieved responsible self-government. The number of seats has increased over time, from 30 at its first election, to the current total of 57 seats. Western Australian politics were initially non-partisan, with individual Members of Parliament choosing to align either with the Government or the Opposition. This began to change in the 1901 election with the election of six Labor members, and then with Labor attaining outright victory in the 1904 election. By 1911, a rival party to Labor had emerged in the centre-right Liberal Party of Western Australia, which many of the former independents had joined.[1] This entity evolved into the Nationalist Party and eventually into the Liberal Party in 1944.[2]

The chart below shows the information graphically, with the most recent results on the right. It shows the popularity in terms of seats won, of the Labor Party (red) and the Nationalist Party and its predecessors (mid-blue) in the first half of the 20th century, as well as the emergence of the Country Party (green) in 1914, with whom the Nationalists and later the Liberals formed a coalition in order to form government. Two distinct periods were characterised by one party or coalition's dominance—the Labor Party won six of the seven elections between 1924 and 1947, and the Liberal Party (dark blue) in coalition with the Country Party won seven of the eight elections between 1959 and 1983. Occasional internal splits within the Country Party, now known as the Nationals, are also shown on the chart in differing shades of green.

 
Party colour key
Liberal}}| LiberalLabor}}| Labor
Nationalist;
Liberal (1911–17)		National Labor
MinisterialistNationals}} rowspan=2|National;
National Country;
Country[3]
Oppositionist
IndependentOther[3]

Summary of results

The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. The totals of the winning party or coalition are shown in bold, while other parties in government are shown in bold italic. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

ElectionDateTotal seatsLaborLiberal {{ref label|NAT|A|ANationalist {{ref label|NAT|B|BCountry/ National {{ref label|CP|C|CNat. Lab. {{ref label|NLP|D|DIndependentOther Parties
Labor}} height=6 |Liberal}} |Nationalist}} |Nationals}} |National Labor}} |Independent}} |Other}} colspan=2 |
40th11 March 2017Labor}} width=3 |5941135
39th9 March 2013Liberal}} width=3 |5921317
38th6 September 2008Liberal}} width=3 |59282443
37th26 February 2005Labor}} width=3 |57321852
36th10 February 2001Labor}} |57321654
35th14 December 1996Liberal}} |57192963
34th6 February 1993Liberal}} |57242661
33rd4 February 1989Labor}} |5731206
32nd8 February 1986Labor}} |5732196
31st19 February 1983Labor}} |57322032National {{ref label|CP|C|C}}
30th23 February 1980Liberal}} |55232633National {{ref label|CP|C|C}}
29th19 February 1977Liberal}} |5522276
28th30 March 1974Liberal}} |5122236
27th20 February 1971Labor}} |5126178
26th23 March 1968Liberal}} |5123199
25th20 February 1965Liberal}} |5021218
24th31 March 1962Liberal}} |5024188
23rd21 March 1959Liberal}} |50231782
22nd7 April 1956Labor}} |50291182
21st14 February 1953Labor}} |5026159
20th25 March 1950Liberal}} |50231593
19th15 March 1947Liberal}} |502313122
18th20 November 1943Labor}} |50307103
17th18 March 1939Labor}} |50277124
16th15 February 1936Labor}} |50268133
15th8 April 1933Labor}} |5030812
14th26 March 1930Nationalist}} |502316101
13th26 March 1927Labor}} |5027167
12th22 March 1924Labor}} |5027917
6		MCP
ECP[3]
11th12 March 1921Nationalist}} |5016101662
10th29 September 1917Nationalist}} |5015161261
9th21 October 1914Labor}} |5026168
8th3 October 1911Labor}} |503416
7th11 September 1908Nationalist}} |502228
6th27 October 1905Nationalist}} |501535
5th28 June 1904Labor}} |5022199

Elections prior to political parties

Until the 1904 election, most candidates did not belong to political parties. However, some candidates declared their support for the administration of the time, while others declared their opposition to it. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

ElectionDateSeatsGovernmentOppositionIndependentLabor
4thApril 190150192056
3rdMay 1897442987
2ndJune 18943319131
1stDecember 18903030

Notes

{{note label|LIB|A|A}} The Liberal Party was known as the Liberal and Country League from 1949 until 1968.

{{note label|NAT|B|B}} Includes results for the Western Australian Liberal Party from 1911 until 1917, and the Ministerial Party from 1904 until 1911.

{{note label|CP|C|C}} The party was known as the Country Party (1914–1946; 1962–1973), Country and Democratic League (1946–1962), National Alliance (1974), National Country Party (1975–1984) and National Party (1984–present). A separate National Party existed from 1978–1984 and is shown under "Other Parties".

{{note label|NLP|D|D}} The National Labor Party were a split from the Labor Party which sat in coalition with the Nationalists between 1917 and 1924.

Interpretation issues

Two features of the Western Australian electoral system are worthy of note in interpreting election results. The first is that until the 1974 election, many seats in both houses were uncontested—usually more than one-quarter of all seats on offer.[4] Since 1974, only three seats have been uncontested—that being the seats of Collie and East Melville in the 1980 election, when the rival party's candidates missed the nomination deadline and hence could not stand, and the seat of Narrogin in the 1983 election.

The second feature is malapportionment, which until 2008 was a significant feature of the Western Australian political landscape. Seats in metropolitan and rural areas did not contain the same number of electors—as at 30 September 2007, a Member of the Legislative Assembly represented either 28,519 metropolitan voters within the Metropolitan Region Scheme area, or 14,551 country voters.[5] This was believed to disproportionately favour the Nationals in terms of parliamentary representation.[6] Reforms enacted in 2005 which took effect at the 2008 election produced an average district enrolment of 21,350, which applied to all but five of the 59 districts created in the 2007 redistribution. An allowance remained for particularly large districts—those of {{convert|100000|km2|sqmi}} or more, located in the north and east of the State—in the form of a Large District Allowance.[7]

References

1. ^{{cite book|title=The House on the Hill: A history of the Parliament of Western Australia|editor=Black, David|last=de Garis|first=Brian|chapter=Self-Government and the Emergence of Political Parties 1890–1911|year=1991|isbn=0-7309-3983-9|publisher=Parliament of Western Australia|pages=81–82}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=A New History of Western Australia|editor=Stannage, Tom|year=1981|publisher=University of Western Australia Press|isbn=0-85564-170-3|last=Black|first=David|chapter=The Era of Labor Ascendancy 1924–1947|pages=439}}
3. ^1 2 In 1923, the Country Party split into the Ministerial Country Party (MCP), with 15 members, and the Executive Country Party (ECP), with 3. At the 1924 election, the MCP won 7 seats and the ECP won 6—subsequently, the MCP merged with the Nationalists while the ECP reverted to the name Country Party. In 1978, a disagreement between those favouring coalition with the Liberals and those favouring independence resulted in the latter group splitting to form the National Party, while the original party remained as the National Country Party. In 1984, the two parties reunited, although the three NCP members ultimately joined the Liberal Party, with two of them losing to endorsed Nationals at the 1986 election. The Executive Country (1924) and National (1978–1984) parties are shaded light green in this list.
4. ^Black, p.110.
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/download/September%20enrolment%20statistics%202.pdf |title=September enrolment statistics |author=Western Australian Electoral Commission |date=30 September 2007 |accessdate=15 January 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722024823/http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/download/September%20enrolment%20statistics%202.pdf |archivedate=22 July 2008 |df= }}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/elections/wa/2005/guide/electoralsystem.htm|title=WA: A Peculiar Electoral System|last=Green|first=Antony|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=17 November 2004|accessdate=19 January 2008}}
7. ^Electoral Act 1907 (WA), s.16G (as added by No.1 of 2005, s.4.)

See also

  • List of Western Australian state by-elections
  • Electoral districts of Western Australia
  • Timeline of Australian elections
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