2001 Western Australian state election

2001 Western Australian state election

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All 57 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
and all 36 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Council
29 Assembly seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
LFF
Leader Geoff Gallop Richard Court Janet Woollard
Party Labor Liberal/National coalition Liberals for Forests
Leader since 8 October 1996 (1996-10-08) 12 May 1992 (1992-05-12) 3 July 1999
Leader's seat Victoria Park Nedlands Alfred Cove
(won seat)
Last election 19 seats 35 seats
Seats won 32 21 1
Seat change Increase 13 Decrease 14 New
Popular vote 382,308 353,377 16,790
Percentage 37.24% 34.42% 1.64%
Swing Increase 1.42 Decrease 11.14 New
TPP 52.92% 47.08%
TPP swing Increase 8.09 Decrease 8.09

Premier before election

Richard Court
Liberal/National coalition

Elected Premier

Geoff Gallop
Labor

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 10 February 2001 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The two-term LiberalNational coalition government, led by Premier Richard Court, was defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Dr Geoff Gallop, in a landslide.

The election produced the biggest change of seats at any election since 1911, with Labor winning 14 seats from the Coalition as well as an Independent-held seat, while losing the seat of Kalgoorlie for the first time since 1923 to Liberal candidate Matt Birney. Meanwhile, a minister in the outgoing Government, Doug Shave, lost his seat of Alfred Cove to Independent candidate Dr Janet Woollard, who was also a member of the Liberals for Forests party.

This was the first election in Western Australian history where the Australian Greens Party overtook the National Party in its share of the state vote.