WA Election Called For Labor After Bloody Huge Swing Against Liberals

BREAKING: It’s over: Antony Green calls the election for Labor #wavotes

— ABC News Perth (@abcnewsPerth) March 11, 2017

According to Green, the wave of voters dropping their support for the LNP can be extrapolated upon, suggesting Labor will indeed gain the 10 extra seats required to gain power – and then some. At the mo’, they’re pegged to amass an extra 13.

Antony Green announces Labor have won the #WAelection #wavotes pic.twitter.com/UF2RQwA0Zx

— ABC News Perth (@abcnewsPerth) March 11, 2017

If the results hold, it’ll mean that someone other than Colin Barnett – Mark McGowan, to be exact – will be Premier for the first time since late 2008. 

All of this follows a pretty brutal election campaign, which saw the Liberals take the unprecedented step of offering Pauline Hanson’s One Nation a preference deal in order to shore up a few votes.

It turns out that may have been a bum deal for both parties; rusted-on Libs may have been turned off by One Nation’s patently batshit policies and candidates, and even Hanson herself said her party’s chances may have been tainted by the LNP’s iffy reputation in the state.

So miffed is One Nation, they’ve apparently barred the ABC from even entering their post-election shindig. 

ABC working beside the bowling green. Denied access to the PHON function because they aren’t “authorised”. #wavotes @6PR pic.twitter.com/QkYZoxMr2Y

— Steve Allen (@ScubaStv) March 11, 2017

We’ll keep you updated on this one.

Source: ABC.