Talk:2017 Western Australian state election

Safety of seats

Resolved

Western Australian state election, 2017#2013 pendulum lists seats as "marginal", "fairly safe", etc. However the reference simply lists percentages. I suggest that the designations "marginal" etc are WP:OR and should be removed, and that we should simply list all of the seats (for each side) ordered by percentage. Mitch Ames (talk) 12:06, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

This classification is the AEC's definition of Marginal, Safe and so on. Antony Green uses the same classifications although I believe he adjusts the threshold for Very Safe to a margin of 12 rather than 10. --Canley (talk) 01:21, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

OK, I have updated the article to say so. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:38, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata queries

I am putting some material related to this election in Wikidata, and I will include any useful queries here:

• List of current WA electoral districts
• List of WA districts and electoral enrolment as of 9 February 2017 (close of rolls)

--Canley (talk) 01:24, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

McGowan's longevity

It's interesting that although McGowan led Labor to a landslide loss in 2013, where the Liberals won a 57.3% 2PP from a 5.4% swing, he has not only successfully served a whole term as opposition leader since, he is also on track to lead Labor to a big win in 2017. When was the last time an opposition leader in Australia led an opposition to a landslide loss, but then went on to not only keep the leadership but also went on to win the next election? Not common at all. Timeshift (talk) 14:18, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Actually that's not so different from Geoff Gallop's efforts in the 1990's. He became Opposition Leader 2 months before the WA 1996 election, which turned out to be a horrible loss for Labor, being reduced to 19/57 seats. However, Gallop held on through the long wait until the 2001 election and won it very comfortably. I gather that WA Labor tends to be more forgiving of its opposition leaders if they don't manage to win the one after a loss. That and the climate in March 2013 was pretty much blamed on federal politics at the time. Kirsdarke01 (talk) 11:58, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Results tables output

I have generated results tables from last night's WAEC data:

• User:Canley/Results of the Western Australian state election, 2017

I will update nightly until the count is finalised. There is only a 2CP/2PP count if it is on the WAEC media feed.

If you see any errors, edit the page and I will adjust the program to fix the issue. --Canley (talk) 23:27, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Is it necessary to include detailed polling/results data on this page? Adondai (talk) 00:09, 24 February 2021 (UTC)