Western Australian state election, 1989

Western Australian state election, 1989

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 4 February 1989 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The Labor government, led by Premier Peter Dowding, won a third term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Barry MacKinnon.

The result was a major swing against the Labor Party, coming in the wake of revelations of dealings between Government and business that came to be known as WA Inc. The redistribution that took place in 1988, based upon the "Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987" which abolished several country and outer metropolitan electorates while creating new metropolitan ones, makes it difficult to assess how Labor would have performed on the old boundaries—while it lost four seats, it gained one Liberal-held seat and won several of the new seats, so in net terms, it only lost one seat despite the massive swing and the low two-party-preferred result.

Results

Legislative Assembly

Australian elections/Title row
title = Western Australian state election, 4 February 1989
house = Legislative Assembly
series = Western Australian state election
back = 1986
forward = 1993
enrolled = 957,939
total_votes = 869,100
turnout % = 90.73%
turnout chg = –0.71%
informal = 63,870
informal % = 7.35%
informal chg = +4.72%Australian elections/Party summary
government = yes
party_id = Labor
votes = 341,931
votes % = 42.46%
votes chg = –10.54%
seats = 31
seats chg = – 1Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Liberal
votes = 344,524
votes % = 42.79%
votes chg = +1.47%
seats = 20
seats chg = + 1Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Nationals
party = National
votes = 37,075
votes % = 4.60%
votes chg = +0.89%
seats = 6
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party = Grey Power
votes = 41,525
votes % = 5.16%
votes chg = +5.16%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Democrats
votes = 11,509
votes % = 1.43%
votes chg = +0.77%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Greens
party = Greens WA
votes = 4,246
votes % = 0.53%
votes chg = +0.53%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party = Other parties
votes = 1,042
votes % = 0.13%
votes chg = –0.20%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Independent
votes = 23,378
votes % = 2.90%
votes chg = +1.92%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Total row
total_votes = 805,230
total_seats = 57
winner_id = LaborAustralian elections/2PP summary
party id 1 = Labor
2pp votes 1 = 383,422
2pp % 1 = 47.62%
2pp chg 1 = –6.50%
party id 2 = Liberal
2pp votes 2 = 421,808
2pp % 2 = 52.38%
2pp chg 2 = +6.50%

Legislative Council

Australian elections/Title row
title = Western Australian state election, 4 February 1989
house = Legislative Council
enrolled = 957,939
total_votes = 870,996
turnout % = 90.92%
turnout chg = –0.50%
informal = 24,061
informal % = 2.76%
informal chg = –0.53%Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Labor
votes = 347,675
votes % = 41.05%
votes chg = –4.08%
seats = 16
seats chg = + 1Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Liberal
votes = 350,053
votes % = 41.33%
votes chg = –0.64%
seats = 15
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Nationals
party = National
votes = 42,328
votes % = 5.00%
votes chg = +0.24%
seats = 3
seats chg = – 1Australian elections/Party summary
party = Grey Power
votes = 34,055
votes % = 4.02%
votes chg = +4.02%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Democrats
votes = 28,113
votes % = 3.32%
votes chg = –4.81%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Greens
party = Greens WA
votes = 27,013
votes % = 3.19%
votes chg = +3.19%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Christian Democrats
party = One Australia
votes = 7,391
votes % = 0.87%
votes chg = +0.87%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Party summary
party_id = Independent
votes = 10,307
votes % = 1.22%
votes chg = +1.21%
seats = 0
seats chg = ± 0Australian elections/Total row
total_votes = 846,935
total_seats = 34

ee also

* Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1986–1989
* Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1989–1993

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