Western Australian state election, 2013

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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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Colin Barnett	Mark McGowan	Brendon Grylls
Party	Liberal	Labor	Nationals WA
Leader since	6 August 2008 (2008-08-06)	23 January 2012 (2012-01-23)	21 June 2005 (2005-06-21)
Leader's seat	Cottesloe	Rockingham	Central Wheatbelt (won Pilbara)
Last election	24 seats	28 seats	4 seats
Seats before	24 seats	26 seats	5 seats
Seats won	31 seats	21 seats	7 seats
Seat change	7	5	2
Popular vote	557,903	392,448	71,694
Percentage	47.10%	33.13%	6.05%
Swing	8.71	2.70	1.18

Premier before election

Colin Barnett
Liberal

Elected Premier

Colin Barnett
Liberal

A general election was held in the state of Western Australia on Saturday 9 March 2013 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council. The Liberal Party won a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly for the first time since the election of 1996, retaining government with 31 seats. The Australian Labor Party won 21 seats and the National Party won 7 seats. In the Legislative Council, the Liberals won 17 of the 36 seats.

Western Australian state election, 9 March 2013
Legislative Assembly
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Western Australian state election, 9 March 2013
Legislative Council

At previous elections, the government was able to chose 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.

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.

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