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At the 2013 election, the Liberals won 17 seats, Labor won 11 seats, the Nationals won five seats, the Greens won two seats and the Shooters and Fishers won one seat. Western Australia's Legislative Council is divided into six regions. Three are based in Perth, while three are rural. Each region elects six members to the Legislative Council.
The first three national elections resulted in minority governments. The world’s first ever Labor Party Prime Minister took office in Australia in 1904, though Labor governed in minority. The first majority government was formed in 1909, when the Protectionist Party merged with the Free Trade Party in an anti-socialist alliance.
This is a list of electoral district results of the 2017 Western Australian election. Percentages, margins and swings are calculated on notional estimates based on analysis of the redistributed electoral boundaries by the ABC's Antony Green. [1]
Pages in category "2017 elections in Australia" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
7 December – The Parliament of Australia passes the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017, legalising same sex marriage in Australia. [ 102 ] 8 December – The Australian Labor Party is declared as the winner of the Queensland state election .
Kakoschke-Moore and Timothy Storer had both been nominated for the 2016 election for the Senate for South Australia as nominees of NXT. However, since the election Storer had ceased to be a member of NXT by 6 November 2017, and the question of whether Storer should be excluded from the special count for that reason was referred to the Full ...
Australia: 2017 North Shore state by-election 8 April 2017; Australia: 2017 Tasmanian Legislative Council periodic elections 6 May 2017; 2017 Niuean general election 6 May 2017; 2017 Papua New Guinean general election 24 June–8 July 2017; 2017 Vanuatuan presidential elections 3 July 2017; 2017 New Zealand general election 23 September 2017 ...
22 November 2017: Nick Xenophon Team Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore resigns after discovering that she held British citizenship by descent, making her ineligible to sit in parliament due to Section 44(i) of the Constitution. [22] 2 December 2017: 2017 New England by-election held. Former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Nationals, Barnaby ...