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Western Australia election 2021

April 2021

  • Voters posting their votes in a ballot box

    WA candidate elected to parliament with less than 100 votes prompts calls for electoral reform

    Daylight Savings MP Wilson Tucker claims the fifth legislative council spot with just 98 votes in a region which recorded the lowest support for the issue

March 2021

  • mark mcgowan and family all smiling

    Liberal party faces up to 12 years in Western Australia wilderness after historic Labor landslide

  • Western Australians Head To The Polls In 2020 State Election<br>PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 13: After a landslide victory, re-elected Premier of WA Mark McGowan makes a speech with his family by his side at the Gary Holland Community Centre on March 13, 2021 in Rockingham, Australia. Labor premier Mark McGowan is campaigning for a second term against the Liberal party led by Zak Kirkup. A record number of Western Australians voted early ahead of election day, due to COVID-19 concerns. (Photo by Will Russell/Getty Images)

    Mark McGowan leads Labor landslide in WA as Liberals' worst fears are realised

  • Attorney general Christian Porter at last week’s press conference in Perth

    Australia news live
    Friend of accuser says he has 'clear recollections of relevant discussions' with minister – as it happened

  • Zak Kirkup

    Total wipeout or just a landslide: how bad will the 2021 WA election be for the Liberals?

  • Juukan Gorge 'cop-out': talk about protecting Aboriginal sites goes curiously quiet in WA

  • WA election: Zak Kirkup hopes to save at least one piece of the Libs' furniture – his seat

February 2021

  • Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan speaks during the launch of the Labour Party campaign at RAC Arena in Perth.

    A state apart: Mark McGowan's pandemic performance taps into WA's separatist past

    In a state that once voted to secede, closing borders against those ‘over east’ has proved hugely popular
  • A general view of the tent city in Pioneer Park in Fremantle, Friday, January 22, 2021. Dozens of tents have been set up at the camp since the Christmas period located opposite the office of Communities Minister Simone McGurk and is now home to about 100 people. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

    Perth's homelessness crisis: the WA election issue Mark McGowan can't shake off

    Fremantle’s ‘tent city’ has shed light on Western Australia’s growing number of rough sleepers – and a Labor government presiding over a ballooning public housing waiting list
  • Mark McGowan

    Gospel according to Mark: can anything stop Western Australia’s Covid saviour's re-election?

    Strong economic growth, an approval rating of 88% and a leg tattoo ... no wonder Labor is pursuing a subdued strategy
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