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Labor's victory was built on a near-sweep of Perth. Labor had gone into the election holding 33 of Perth's 43 seats (having lost one at a by-election). It won an additional nine in 2021, some on swings of over 10 percent, leaving Cottesloe as the only non-Labor seat in the capital. Many of Labor's gains came in seats long considered Liberal ...
The 2021 Perth City Council election was held on 16 October 2021 to elect four councillors to the City of Perth. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Western Australia. [1] No election for lord mayor was held, as the term of incumbent Basil Zempilas did not expire until 2023. Four other councillors were also not up ...
2021 Western Australian state election: Perth [47] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labor: John Carey: 16,594 63.5 +16.3 Liberal: Kylee Veskovich 4,666 17.9 −15.2 Greens: Francesca Pandolfino 4,177 16.0 +1.5 No Mandatory Vaccination: Scott Beard 476 1.8 +1.8 WAxit: Angelo Minniti 225 0.9 0.0 Total formal votes 26,138 96.8 +0.5 Informal votes 858 3 ...
Up until 2021 in multi-member wards, a voter would get to vote for as many candidates as there are vacancies (known as plurality voting). [1] Council representation was also changed to align with the population of the district, with council wards abolished for smaller councils.
John McGrath MLA (South Perth) – announced 30 October 2019 [10] Mike Nahan MLA – announced 2 December 2019 [11] Dean Nalder MLA – announced 1 December 2020 [12] Ken Baston MLC (Mining and Pastoral) – announced 2 December 2019 [11] Simon O'Brien MLC (South Metropolitan) – lost preselection 3 February 2020, [13] did not renominate
The seat was re-established at the 1962 election with different boundaries [3] —the neighbouring seats of West Perth, East Perth and North Perth having all been abolished in the 1961 redistribution—and was won by Labor's Stanley Heal, the previous member for West Perth. He was defeated at the 1965 election by Peter Durack of the Liberal ...
South Perth (1950–present) Member Party Term George Yates: Liberal Country League: 1950–1956 Bill Grayden: Independent Liberal 1956–1959 Liberal Country League 1959–1968 Liberal: 1968–1993 Phillip Pendal: Liberal 1993–1995 Independent 1995–2005 John McGrath: Liberal 2005–2021 Geoff Baker: Labor: 2021–present
Like other Australian states, Western Australia is represented by twelve Senators in the Australian Senate, with six of those Senators elected for two three-year Senate terms at each half-Senate election. Historically, most federal elections have already been "decided" [a] by the time the polls close in Western Australia.