# Results of the 2017 Western Australian state election (Legislative Council)

This is a list of electoral region results for the Western Australian Legislative Council in the 2017 Western Australian state election.
The Liberal Democrats would win their first ever Western Australian Legislative Council seat at this election.

## Results summary

Legislative Council (STV/GVT) – Turnout 87.00% (CV) :
| Party | Party | Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | +/- |
| | Labor | Labor | 544,938 | 40.41 | +7.90 | 14 | 3 |
| | Liberal | Liberal | 360,235 | 26.71 | −20.91 | 9 | 8 |
| | Greens | Greens | 116,041 | 8.60 | +0.39 | 4 | 2 |
| | One Nation | One Nation | 110,480 | 8.19 | +8.19 | 3 | 3 |
| | National | National | 59,776 | 4.43 | -0.45 | 4 | 1 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 31,924 | 2.37 | +0.59 | 1 | |
| | Christians | Christians | 26,209 | 1.94 | -0.01 | 0 | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Liberal Democrats | 23,848 | 1.77 | +1.77 | 1 | 1 |
| | Animal Justice | Animal Justice | 14,838 | 1.10 | +1.10 | 0 | |
| | Family First | Family First | 11,279 | 0.84 | -0.53 | 0 | |
| | Daylight Saving | Daylight Saving | 9,209 | 0.68 | +0.68 | 0 | |
| | Micro Business | Micro Business | 7,484 | 0.55 | +0.55 | 0 | |
| | Flux the System! | Flux the System! | 5,934 | 0.44 | +0.44 | 0 | |
| | Matheson for Western Australia | Matheson for Western Australia | 5,270 | 0.39 | +0.39 | 0 | |
| | Fluoride Free WA | Fluoride Free WA | 4,327 | 0.32 | +0.32 | 0 | |
| | Socialist Alliance | Socialist Alliance | 1,367 | 0.10 | +0.10 | 0 | |
| | Independents | Independents | 15,516 | 1.15 | -0.53 | 0 | |
| | Other | Other | 482 | 0.03 | +0.03 | 0 | |
| Formal votes | Formal votes | Formal votes | 1,348,675 | 97.29 | +0.13 | | |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 37,480 | 2.70 | −0.13 | | |
| Total | Total | Total | 1,386,155 | | | 36 | |
| Registered voters / turnout | Registered voters / turnout | Registered voters / turnout | 1,593,222 | 87.00 | -2.20 | | |

## Results by electoral region
### Agricultural

2017 Western Australian state election: Agricultural :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Quota | Quota | Quota | 12,597 | | |
| | National | 1. Martin Aldridge (elected 1) 2. Colin de Grussa (elected 4) 3. Leigh Ballard 4. Fred Block 5. Steve Blyth 6. David Kennedy | 27,060 | 30.69 | −1.04 |
| | Labor | 1. Darren West (elected 2) 2. Laurie Graham (elected 5) 3. Carol Martin 4. Luke Clarkson | 21,164 | 24.00 | +6.43 |
| | Liberal | 1. Jim Chown (elected 3) 2. Steve Martin 3. Brian Ellis 4. Chris Wilkins 5. Alan McFarland | 16,446 | 18.65 | −15.20 |
| | One Nation | 1. Rod Caddies 2. Craig McKinley 3. Emma McKinley | 10,283 | 11.66 | +11.66 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Rick Mazza (elected 6) 2. Bevan Steele 3. Mal Kentish | 4,985 | 5.65 | +2.37 |
| | Greens | 1. Ian James 2. Dylan Copeland | 3,178 | 3.60 | −0.35 |
| | Christians | 1. Trevor Young 2. Les Holten | 1,624 | 1.84 | −0.03 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 1. Connor Whittle 2. Stuart Hatch | 960 | 1.09 | +1.09 |
| | Family First | 1. Murray Yarran 2. Leighton Knoll | 830 | 0.94 | −0.16 |
| | Flux the System! | 1. Lewis Freer 2. Peter Turner | 313 | 0.35 | +0.35 |
| | Matheson for WA | 1. Peter Swift 2. Bruce Anderson | 260 | 0.29 | +0.29 |
| | Daylight Saving | 1. Vince Radford 2. Robert Tucker | 196 | 0.22 | +0.22 |
| | Fluoride Free WA | 1. Phillip Strahan 2. Gillian Pearce | 192 | 0.22 | +0.22 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. Alexander Reid 2. Tim McMahon | 184 | 0.21 | +0.21 |
| | Independent | 1. Murray Fleeton 2. Patrick Akkari | 105 | 0.12 | +0.12 |
| | Micro Business | 1. Dennis Jennings 2. Petar Culum | 91 | 0.10 | +0.10 |
| | Independent | 1. Brent Williamson 2. Michael Prinz | 76 | 0.09 | +0.09 |
| | Independent | Frank Hough | 74 | 0.08 | +0.08 |
| | Independent | 1. David Reed 2. Lewis Butto | 58 | 0.07 | +0.07 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. N. Spada 2. S. Demir | 53 | 0.06 | +0.06 |
| | Independent | Graham Barrett-Lennard | 43 | 0.05 | +0.05 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 88,175 | 97.28 | +0.08 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 2,462 | 2.72 | −0.08 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 90,637 | 88.21 | −2.19 |

### East Metropolitan

2017 Western Australian state election: East Metropolitan :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Quota | Quota | Quota | 47,831 | | |
| | Labor | 1. Alanna Clohesy (elected 1) 2. Samantha Rowe (elected 3) 3. Matthew Swinbourn (elected 4) 4. Thomas French 5. Reece Wheadon 6. Lauren Cayoun | 155,707 | 46.51 | +8.28 |
| | Liberal | 1. Donna Faragher (elected 2) 2. Alyssa Hayden 3. Helen Morton 4. Christopher Tan 5. Raymond Gianoli 6. Joanna Collins | 83,547 | 24.95 | −21.85 |
| | Greens | 1. Tim Clifford (elected 5) 2. Sarah Nielsen-Harvey 3. Robyn Walsh | 29,810 | 8.90 | +0.74 |
| | One Nation | 1. Charles Smith (elected 6) 2. Chris Fernandez 3. Lloyd McIntosh | 26,874 | 8.03 | +8.03 |
| | Christians | 1. Jamie van Burgel 2. Maryka Groenewald | 8,292 | 2.48 | −0.22 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Paul Pitaro 2. Mitchell Wellstead 3. Steve Denham | 6,836 | 2.04 | +0.41 |
| | Animal Justice | 1. Talia Raphaely 2. Nicole Arielli | 4,874 | 1.46 | +1.46 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 1. Neil Hamilton 2. Todd Phillips | 3,464 | 1.03 | +1.03 |
| | Family First | 1. Simon Geddes 2. Steve Fuhrmann | 3,361 | 1.00 | +1.00 |
| | Daylight Saving | 1. Michael Zakrzewski 2. Riley Burkett | 2,642 | 0.79 | +0.79 |
| | Micro Business | 1. Kelvin White 2. W. Ginbey | 2,531 | 0.76 | +0.76 |
| | Flux the System! | 1. Rob Redfearn 2. Jim Taylor | 1,522 | 0.45 | +0.45 |
| | Matheson for WA | 1. Russell Goodrick 2. Stephen Lau | 1,400 | 0.42 | +0.42 |
| | Fluoride Free WA | 1. John Watt 2. Trevor McGowan | 1,262 | 0.38 | +0.38 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. M. Lotterin 2. Stef Pienaar | 802 | 0.24 | +0.24 |
| | Independent | 1. Shawn Dhu 2. Belinda Lange | 677 | 0.20 | +0.20 |
| | Independent | 1. Jayme Hewitt 2. Natasha Forde | 442 | 0.13 | +0.13 |
| | Independent | Roger Cornish | 392 | 0.12 | +0.12 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. Charday Williams 2. Ben Devlin | 381 | 0.11 | +0.11 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 334,816 | 97.09 | +0.48 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 10,036 | 2.91 | −0.48 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 344,852 | 87.20 | −2.44 |

### Mining and Pastoral

2017 Western Australian state election: Mining and Pastoral :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Quota | Quota | Quota | 7,045 | | |
| | Labor | 1. Stephen Dawson (elected 1) 2. Kyle McGinn (elected 4) 3. Peter Foster 4. Christopher Mousley | 16,846 | 34.16 | +11.78 |
| | National | 1. Jacqui Boydell (elected 2) 2. Dave Grills 3. Gary Brown 4. Judi Janes 5. Adrian Hatwell 6. Terry Fleeton | 9,356 | 18.97 | −8.98 |
| | Liberal | 1. Ken Baston (elected 3) 2. Mark Lewis 3. Barry Pound 4. Jason Wells | 7,735 | 15.69 | −16.43 |
| | One Nation | 1. Robin Scott (elected 5) 2. Justin Keating 3. Janine Varley | 6,754 | 13.70 | +13.70 |
| | Greens | 1. Robin Chapple (elected 6) 2. Timothy Oliver | 2,800 | 5.68 | −3.26 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Stefan Colagiuri 2. Shane Aylmore 3. Kingsley Smith | 2,539 | 5.15 | +1.44 |
| | Christians | 1. Grahame Gould 2. Jacky Young | 743 | 1.51 | −0.27 |
| | Family First | 1. Ian Rose 2. Bev Custers | 508 | 1.03 | −1.20 |
| | Flux the System! | 1. Kai Shanks 2. Melissa Taaffe | 505 | 1.02 | +1.02 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 1. Jared Neaves 2. Marko Vasev | 342 | 0.69 | +0.69 |
| | Daylight Saving | 1. Amanda Klaj 2. Joel Duffy | 246 | 0.50 | +0.50 |
| | Fluoride Free WA | 1. Anne Porter 2. David Bauer | 210 | 0.43 | +0.43 |
| | Matheson for WA | 1. Sonya Matheson 2. Paul Costanzo | 132 | 0.27 | +0.27 |
| | Independent | 1. Paul Fitzgerald 2. Nicholas Cukela | 121 | 0.25 | +0.25 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. Atilla Ataman 2. Tayla Stucke | 85 | 0.17 | +0.17 |
| | Independent | Darby Renton | 72 | 0.15 | +0.15 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. Abed Raouf 2. Billy Amesz | 68 | 0.14 | +0.14 |
| | Micro Business | 1. Natasha Rogers 2. Pritam Patil | 65 | 0.13 | +0.13 |
| | Independent | Julie Owen | 55 | 0.11 | +0.11 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. Angela Hyde 2. Greg Gandossini | 53 | 0.11 | +0.11 |
| | Independent | 1. Keith Mader 2. Royce Normington | 41 | 0.08 | +0.08 |
| | Independent | 1. Arihia Henry 2. Pete Francis | 35 | 0.07 | +0.07 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 49,311 | 97.52 | +0.23 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 1,253 | 2.48 | −0.23 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 50,564 | 73.84 | −5.63 |

### North Metropolitan

2017 Western Australian state election: North Metropolitan :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Quota | Quota | Quota | 47,901 | | |
| | Labor | 1. Alannah MacTiernan (elected 1) 2. Martin Pritchard (elected 3) 3. Kelly Shay 4. Hannah Beazley 5. Laine McDonald 6. Hugh Nguyen | 124,809 | 37.22 | +7.89 |
| | Liberal | 1. Peter Collier (elected 2) 2. Michael Mischin (elected 4) 3. Tjorn Sibma (elected 6) 4. Victoria Jackson 5. Sandra Brewer 6. Tim Walton | 122,296 | 36.47 | −20.60 |
| | Greens | 1. Alison Xamon (elected 5) 2. Samantha Jenkinson 3. Ziggy Fatnowna | 33,448 | 9.98 | +1.16 |
| | One Nation | 1. John Bombak 2. Ian Hamilton | 21,677 | 6.46 | +6.46 |
| | Christians | 1. Dwight Randall 2. Neil Fearis | 5,382 | 1.61 | +0.06 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Stefan Colagiuri 2. Shane Aylmore 3. Kingsley Smith | 4,359 | 1.30 | +0.20 |
| | Animal Justice | 1. Natasha Chakich 2. Elizabeth McCasker | 3,989 | 1.19 | +1.19 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 1. Brian Murray 2. John Ogilvie | 3,662 | 1.09 | +1.09 |
| | Daylight Saving | 1. Tye Short 2. Michael Kennedy | 2,700 | 0.81 | +0.81 |
| | Family First | 1. Henry Heng 2. Lesley Croll | 2,369 | 0.71 | −0.23 |
| | Micro Business | 1. John Golawski 2. Matt Golawski 3. Mariah Bennington | 2,063 | 0.62 | +0.62 |
| | Matheson for WA | 1. Julie Matheson 2. Jane Boxall | 2,017 | 0.60 | +0.60 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. Raoul Smith 2. Michael Carey | 1,701 | 0.51 | +0.51 |
| | Flux the System! | 1. Joshua van Ross 2. Owen Merriman | 1,465 | 0.44 | +0.44 |
| | Fluoride Free WA | 1. Anne Porter 2. David Bauer | 1,084 | 0.32 | +0.32 |
| | Independent | Michael Tucak | 947 | 0.28 | +0.28 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. A. Albert 2. Claire Norton | 851 | 0.25 | +0.25 |
| | Independent | Derek Ammon | 313 | 0.09 | +0.09 |
| | Independent | Joe Ruzzi | 168 | 0.05 | +0.05 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 335,300 | 97.65 | +0.07 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 8,061 | 2.35 | −0.07 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 343,361 | 87.78 | −1.91 |

### South Metropolitan

2017 Western Australian state election: South Metropolitan :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Quota | Quota | Quota | 49,570 | | |
| | Labor | 1. Sue Ellery (elected 1) 2. Kate Doust (elected 3) 3. Pierre Yang (elected 4) 4. Kelly McManus 5. Vicky Burrows 6. Dustin Rafferty | 155,678 | 44.87 | +7.95 |
| | Liberal | 1. Nick Goiran (elected 2) 2. Simon O'Brien (elected 6) 3. Phil Edman 4. Michelle Hofmann 5. Lorraine Finlay 6. Daryl Pranata | 86,197 | 24.84 | −22.54 |
| | Greens | 1. Lynn MacLaren 2. Jordon Steele-John 3. Nasrin Dehghani | 32,100 | 9.25 | +0.46 |
| | One Nation | 1. Philip Scott 2. Richard Eldridge 3. Ekaterina Andreeva | 24,256 | 6.99 | +6.99 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 1. Aaron Stonehouse (elected 5) 2. Angadjeet Sanghera | 13,571 | 3.91 | +3.91 |
| | Christians | 1. Bob Burdett 2. Carmen Burdett | 6,876 | 1.98 | +0.04 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Peter Raffaelli 2. Wayne Higgs | 5,211 | 1.50 | −0.02 |
| | Animal Justice | 1. Katrina Love 2. Ramona Janssen | 4,434 | 1.28 | +1.28 |
| | Daylight Saving | 1. Wilson Tucker 2. Peita Alberti | 2,751 | 0.79 | +0.79 |
| | Family First | 1. Nigel Irvine 2. Cara Heng | 2,419 | 0.70 | −1.09 |
| | Micro Business | 1. Cam Tinley 2. Andrew Middleton 3. Len Dibben | 2,361 | 0.68 | +0.68 |
| | Independent | 1. Carol Adams 2. Karen Vernon 3. Luke Bolton 4. Jonathan Ford | 2,308 | 0.67 | +0.67 |
| | Independent | 1. Robert Cotterell 2. Michelle Cotterell | 1,405 | 0.40 | +0.40 |
| | Socialist Alliance | 1. Sam Wainwright 2. Petrina Harley | 1,367 | 0.39 | +0.39 |
| | Flux the System! | 1. Alexander Brownbill 2. Keith Pomeroy | 1,288 | 0.37 | +0.37 |
| | Matheson for WA | 1. Andrew Luobikis 2. Angela Watson | 1,176 | 0.34 | +0.34 |
| | Fluoride Free WA | 1. Derek Rucki 2. Nita Thakrar | 996 | 0.29 | +0.29 |
| | Independent | 1. Vito Matarazzo 2. Yusuf Oruc | 939 | 0.27 | +0.27 |
| | Independent | Tony Romano | 396 | 0.11 | +0.11 |
| | Independent | Laona Jones | 379 | 0.11 | +0.11 |
| | Independent | 1. William Freeman 2. Daksh Varma | 291 | 0.08 | +0.08 |
| | Independent Flux | 1. Rick Smith 2. Adrian Snary | 242 | 0.07 | +0.07 |
| | Independent | Norm Heslington | 142 | 0.04 | +0.04 |
| | Independent | Rosemary Lorrimar | 109 | 0.03 | +0.03 |
| | Independent | Frank Brown | 93 | 0.03 | +0.03 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 346,985 | 97.13 | −0.11 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 10,257 | 2.87 | +0.11 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 357,242 | 87.28 | −2.19 |

### South West

2017 Western Australian state election: South West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Quota | Quota | Quota | 27,727 | | |
| | Labor | 1. Sally Talbot (elected 1) 2. Adele Farina (elected 3) 3. John Mondy 4. Barry Winmar 5. Jessica Short | 70,734 | 36.44 | +5.91 |
| | Liberal | 1. Steve Thomas (elected 2) 2. Wade De Campo 3. Robyn McSweeney 4. Tony Norment 5. Heather Reid 6. Douglas McLarty | 44,014 | 22.68 | −21.27 |
| | National | 1. Colin Holt (elected 5) 2. Louise Kingston 3. Bevan Eatts 4. Kylie Kennaugh | 23,360 | 12.04 | +1.06 |
| | One Nation | 1. Colin Tincknell (elected 4) 2. Cameron Bartkowski 3. Sean Butler | 20,636 | 10.63 | +10.63 |
| | Greens | 1. Diane Evers (elected 6) 2. Hsien Harper | 14,705 | 7.58 | −0.34 |
| | Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1. Nigel Hallett 2. Craig Carbone 3. Ray Hull | 7,994 | 4.12 | +1.75 |
| | Christians | 1. Greg Spaanderman 2. Rachael Dowdell | 3,292 | 1.70 | +0.24 |
| | Liberal Democrats | 1. Nathan Dyson 2. Damian Coletta | 1,849 | 0.95 | +0.95 |
| | Family First | 1. Linda Rose 2. Dave Bolt | 1,792 | 0.92 | −0.60 |
| | Animal Justice | 1. Alicia Sutton 2. Eric Gobbert | 1,541 | 0.79 | +0.79 |
| | Flux the System! | 1. Daithí Gleeson 2. Mark Bentley | 841 | 0.43 | +0.43 |
| | Daylight Saving | 1. Brett Tucker 2. Janet Wilson | 686 | 0.35 | +0.35 |
| | Independent | 1. Tim Hartley 2. Julio Pieraldi | 622 | 0.32 | +0.32 |
| | Fluoride Free WA | 1. Hayley Green 2. John Vukovich | 579 | 0.30 | +0.30 |
| | Micro Business | 1. Jeff Casson 2. Devinder Chinna | 373 | 0.19 | +0.19 |
| | Independent | 1. Eric Thern 2. Katrina De Ruyck | 291 | 0.15 | +0.15 |
| | Matheson for WA | 1. Stephen Phelan 2. Blake Phelan | 285 | 0.15 | +0.15 |
| | Independent | Kyle Hammond | 267 | 0.14 | +0.14 |
| | Independent | John Higgins | 155 | 0.08 | +0.08 |
| | Independent | Zyggi Uchwal | 72 | 0.04 | +0.04 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 194,088 | 97.29 | +0.04 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 5,411 | 2.71 | −0.04 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 199,499 | 88.25 | −2.41 |