The 2013 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 9 March 2013 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council.

Quick Facts All 59 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assemblyand all 36 members in the Western Australian Legislative Council 30 Assembly seats were needed for a majority, First party ...

2013 Western Australian state election

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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 National 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 26 5 Seats won 31 21 7 Seat change 7 5 2 First preference vote 557,903 392,448 71,694 Percentage 47.10% 33.13% 6.05% Swing 8.71 2.70 1.18 TPP 57.29% 42.71% TPP swing 5.44 5.44
The map on the left shows the first party preference by electorate. The map on the right shows the final two-party preferred vote result by electorate.
Premier before election Colin Barnett Liberal Elected Premier Colin Barnett Liberal

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The incumbent Liberal–National Coalition government, led by Premier Colin Barnett, won a second consecutive four-year term in government, defeating the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Mark McGowan, in a landslide.^[1][2][3][4] The Liberals alone won a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly for the first time since the election of 1996, retaining government with 31 seats. Labor won 21 seats and the Nationals won 7 seats. In the Legislative Council, the Liberals won 17 of the 36 seats.

• Members listed in italics did not contest their seat at this election.
• * figure is vs. Liberal
• ** figure is vs. Labor
• *** figure is vs. National

At previous elections, the government was able to choose 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.^[6][7] This was the first election under the new system.

• Issue of writ: 6 February^[8]
• Nominations open: 7 February
• Close of party nominations: 12 noon, 14 February
• Close of rolls: 6 pm, 14 February
• Close of independent nominations: 12 noon, 15 February
• Postal voting commences: ?
• Pre-poll voting commences: 20 February
• Polling day: 9 March
• Return of writ: On or before 6 May

The following Mackerras pendulum works by lining up all of the seats according to the percentage point margin post-election on a two-candidate-preferred basis.

1.^ Elected as Labor member, defected to the Nationals in July 2009, margin is ALP v NAT.

2.^ Elected as Green member, resigned from The Greens in May 2010.

Newspoll polling is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes consist of around 1,100 electors. The declared margin of error is ±3 percent.

Voting intention

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Graphical summary of opinion polls for voting intention.

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Graphical summary of two-party-preferred opinion polls.

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Legislative Assembly (lower house) polling

	Primary vote					TPP vote
	Lib	Nat	ALP	Gre	Oth	Lib/Nat	ALP
2013 election	47.1%	6.1%	33.1%	8.4%	5.3%	57.3%	42.7%
4–7 Mar 2013	48%	6%	32%	8%	6%	59.5%	40.5%
3–7 Feb 2013	45%	6%	35%	8%	6%	57%	43%
Oct–Dec 2012	43%	6%	30%	12%	9%	58%	42%
Jul–Sep 2012	43%	5%	30%	12%	10%	57%	43%
Jan–Mar 2012	39%	6%	35%	11%	9%	53%	47%
Oct–Dec 2011	46%	4%	29%	12%	9%	59%	41%
Jul–Sep 2011	42%	6%	29%	13%	10%	57%	43%
Apr–Jun 2011	43%	6%	30%	12%	9%	57%	43%
Jan–Mar 2011	43%	6%	31%	13%	7%	57%	43%
Oct–Dec 2010	42%	7%	29%	13%	9%	58%	42%
Jul–Sep 2010	41%	6%	30%	14%	9%	57%	43%
Apr–Jun 2010	38%	6%	32%	16%	8%	54%	46%
Jan–Mar 2010	40%	5%	37%	11%	7%	53%	47%
Jan–Mar 2009	42%	5%	33%	13%	7%	55%	45%
2008 election	38.4%	4.9%	35.8%	11.9%	9.0%	51.9%	48.1%
2–4 Sep 2008	37%	6%	35%	12%	10%	50%	50%
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian.

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Preferred Premier

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Graphical summary of approval rating opinion polls for preferred Premier.

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Better Premier polling^

	Liberal Barnett	Labor McGowan
2013 election	–	–
4–7 Mar 2013	52%	31%
3–7 Feb 2013	44%	40%
Oct–Dec 2012	48%	29%
Jul–Sep 2012	45%	29%
Jan–Mar 2012	43%	30%
Oct–Dec 2011	59%	18%2
Jul–Sep 2011	56%	22%2
Apr–Jun 2011	58%	18%2
Jan–Mar 2011	56%	17%2
Oct–Dec 2010	60%	16%2
Jul–Sep 2010	61%	17%2
Apr–Jun 2010	60%	19%2
Jan–Mar 2010	58%	19%2
Jan–Mar 2009	60%	14%2
2008 election	–	–
2–4 Sep 2008	35%	48%1
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian. ^ Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader. 1 Alan Carpenter. 2 Eric Ripper.

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Approval ratings

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Graphical summary of approval rating opinion polls for Colin Barnett.

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Graphical summary of approval rating opinion polls for Labor leaders (Alan Carpenter, Eric Ripper and Mark McGowan).

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Satisfaction polling^

	Barnett		McGowan
	Satisfied	Dissatisfied	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
2013 election	–	–	–	–
4–7 Mar 2013	51%	36%	49%	29%
3–7 Feb 2013	47%	42%	51%	26%
Oct–Dec 2012	49%	37%	44%	26%
Jul–Sep 2012	48%	37%	48%	23%
Jan–Mar 2012	51%	33%	43%	17%
Oct–Dec 2011	58%	28%	34%2	39%2
Jul–Sep 2011	51%	35%	34%2	43%2
Apr–Jun 2011	50%	37%	33%2	43%2
Jan–Mar 2011	54%	33%	31%2	44%2
Oct–Dec 2010	55%	35%	33%2	43%2
Jul–Sep 2010	56%	32%	34%2	42%2
Apr–Jun 2010	55%	33%	36%2	44%2
Jan–Mar 2010	51%	34%	33%2	43%2
Jan–Mar 2009	56%	23%	35%2	34%2
2008 election	–	–	–	–
2–4 Sep 2008	40%	43%	42%1	48%1
Polling conducted by Newspoll and published in The Australian. ^Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader. 1 Alan Carpenter. 2 Eric Ripper.

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• Candidates of the 2013 Western Australian state election