WA Election 2017

Western Australia is facing a diminished role in the next federal election, with population estimates putting the state in serious danger of losing one of its seats in Federal Parliament — a move that could reduce the attention major parties pay to the state.

Labor's poor federal election result was in stark contrast to its landslide win at the 2017 state election. Anything resembling a repeat of this in 2021 would spell absolute disaster for Mark McGowan, writes Jacob Kagi.

Nationals leader Michael McCormack couldn't help but gloat as the election results came rolling in. But looking at their dire showing in WA, the Nationals have far less reason to crow, writes Jacob Kagi.

Australians will give millions to political parties in 2019 but the United Australia Party will recover far less than what it spent.

Western Australia's Premier, Mark McGowan, describes Labor's failed election campaign as "grandiose" and overly ambitious, saying his federal colleagues planted a huge target on themselves.

Mark McGowan may have won by a landslide in the 2017 state election, but Labor's wages and negative gearing policies proved to be too much for traditionally conservative WA voters to stomach in the federal election, writes Jacob Kagi.

Labor hoped to grab up to five seats in the west, with the daughter of former leader Kim Beazley one of the star candidates, but the Coalition holds its ground in a state that has long been a Liberal stronghold.

Labor talked up its high hopes of winning as many as five WA seats at the start of the campaign. The bookies are still backing a Labor win, but the latest odds show the money swinging back towards Liberal candidates, writes Jacob Kagi.

O'Connor is one of the largest electorates in the world, but there will be 102 polling stations open for business on Saturday when the federal election takes place.

Indigenous people were denied the right to vote in federal elections until 1962. Today, the AEC goes to great lengths to ensure the nation's most remote Aboriginal communities have their say.

Christian Porter was elected as the member for Pearce when it was an unlosable Liberal seat. But the rapid transformation has him locked in a fight for his political life.

For the Liberal Party, there's more than just this election on the line come Saturday — some of the party's future leaders are fighting for their political lives.

Days out from the election, the United Australia Party has offered few policy details to Australian voters despite bombarding them with advertisements for months, writes Rafael Epstein.

WA is seen as being in play for the first time in a long time in this election, but for the state to determine the result, Labor will have to have a shocker of a night and the Coalition will have to defy expectations, writes Nicolas Perpitch.

Candidates running for seats in regional Australia are clocking up thousands of kilometres campaigning in this year's federal election.