Western Australian state election, 2017

2013 ←

11 March 2017

All 59 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and all 36 members in the Western Australian Legislative Council


Leader	Colin Barnett	Mark McGowan	Brendon Grylls
Party	Liberal	Labor	National
Leader since	6 August 2008 (2008-08-06)	23 January 2012 (2012-01-23)	9 August 2016 (2016-08-09)
Leader's seat	Cottesloe	Rockingham	Pilbara
Last election	31 seats	21 seats	7 seats
Current seats	30 seats	21 seats	7 seats
Seats needed	0	9	23
TPP @ 2013	57.3%	42.7%
TPP polling	48%	52%
BP polling	29%	47%

Incumbent Premier

Colin Barnett
Liberal

The 2017 Western Australian state election will be held on Saturday 11 March 2017 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council.

On 3 November 2011, the Government of Western Australia introduced fixed four-year terms, with the elections to be held on the second Saturday in March. The first election under the new law was the 2013 election.

At the 2013 election, Labor won 21 seats, the Liberals won 31 seats and the Nationals won 7 seats. No seats were won by independents.

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.

A redistribution of electoral boundaries for the lower house was completed on 27 November 2015. This resulted in a net gain of one seat for the Liberal Party from Labor. The Liberal seats of Alfred Cove, Eyre and Ocean Reef, the Labor seat of Gosnells and the National seat of Wagin were abolished. Five new seats were created (or re-created): the notionally Liberal seats of Bicton (mostly replacing Alfred Cove) and Burns Beach (mostly replacing Ocean Reef), the notionally Labor seats of Baldivis (created from parts of Kwinana and Warnbro) and Thornlie (replacing Gosnells), and the notionally National seat of Roe (merging Wagin and Eyre). The Labor seats of Collie-Preston and West Swan became notionally Liberal.

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