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Western Australian state election, 23 February 1980[1]
Legislative Council

Enrolled voters 714,724
Votes cast 631,915 Turnout 88.41% –2.29%
Informal votes 27,692 Informal 4.38% –0.03%
Summary of votes by party
Party Primary votes % Swing Seats
won 		Seats
held
  Liberal 287,058 47.51% –2.80% 10 19
  Labor 270,538 44.77% +2.82% 5 9
  National Country[1] 23,101 3.82% +0.65% 1 3
  National[1] 20,704 3.43% +1.04% 0 1
  Progress 2,822 0.47% +0.47% 0 0
  Independent 0 0.00% –2.18% 0 0
Total 604,223     16 32
Two-party-preferred
  Liberal/NCP 316,398 52.36% –3.26%
  Labor 287,825 47.64% +3.26%

This is a list of electoral region results for the Western Australian Legislative Council in the 1980 Western Australian state election.

Results by Electoral province

Central

Western Australian state election, 1980: Central Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Country Harry Gayfer 7,971 38.5 -14.6
Labor Pamela Doust 4,457 21.5 +21.5
Liberal Gordon Atkinson 4,424 21.4 -8.3
National Murray Anderson 3,855 18.6 +18.6
Total formal votes 20,707 95.7 +1.4
Informal votes 923 4.3 -1.4
Turnout 21,630 91.8 -1.1
After distribution of preferences
National Country Harry Gayfer 10,813 52.2
Liberal Gordon Atkinson 5,199 25.1
Labor Pamela Doust 4,695 22.7
National Country hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed to completion.

East Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1980: East Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Bob Hetherington 32,350 58.0 +0.9
Liberal Brian Brand 23,383 42.0 -0.9
Total formal votes 55,733 94.6 -0.3
Informal votes 3,206 5.4 +0.3
Turnout 58,939 87.6 -2.5
Labor hold Swing +0.9

Lower Central

Western Australian state election, 1980: Lower Central Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Douglas Simcock 8,647 38.0 +0.5
Liberal Sandy Lewis 6,840 30.0 +0.4
National Country Robert Reid 5,722 25.1 -7.8
National Robert Wardell-Johnson 1,570 6.9 +6.9
Total formal votes 22,779 96.0 -0.2
Informal votes 951 4.0 +0.2
Turnout 23,730 91.9 -1.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Sandy Lewis 12,789 56.1 +56.1
Labor Douglas Simcock 9,990 43.9 +3.5
Liberal hold Swing -3.5

Lower North

Western Australian state election, 1980: Lower North Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Phil Lockyer 2,389 50.0 -11.5
Labor Lino Paggi 1,928 40.4 +1.9
National Robert Crombie 459 9.6 +9.6
Total formal votes 4,776 96.4 +0.4
Informal votes 178 3.6 -0.4
Turnout 4,954 84.8 -1.8
Liberal hold Swing N/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Lower West

Western Australian state election, 1980: Lower West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Pratt 13,615 49.3 -6.2
Labor Richard Savage 12,892 46.6 +2.1
Progress John Trewick 1,104 4.0 +4.0
Total formal votes 27,611 94.7 -1.5
Informal votes 1,556 5.3 +1.5
Turnout 29,167 90.8 -1.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Ian Pratt 13,979 50.6 -4.9
Labor Richard Savage 13,632 49.4 +4.9
Liberal hold Swing -4.9

Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1980: Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Medcalf 38,034 60.5 +1.4
Labor Gordon Payne 24,869 39.5 +5.1
Total formal votes 62,903 96.5 +0.2
Informal votes 2,249 3.5 -0.2
Turnout 65,152 86.1 -2.9
Liberal hold Swing N/A

North

Western Australian state election, 1980: North Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Peter Dowding 8,855 51.7 +5.3
Liberal John Tozer 8,275 48.3 -5.3
Total formal votes 17,130 95.4 +0.8
Informal votes 816 4.6 -0.8
Turnout 17,946 78.8 -4.0
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +5.3

North Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1980: North Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Peter Wells 42,282 51.9 -2.0
Labor Roy Claughton 39,174 48.1 +2.0
Total formal votes 81,456 95.4 -0.5
Informal votes 3,961 4.6 +0.5
Turnout 85,417 88.3 -2.6
Liberal gain from Labor Swing -2.0

North-East Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1980: North-East Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Joe Berinson 43,676 59.6 +5.4
Liberal Wouterina Klein 29,568 40.4 -5.4
Total formal votes 73,244 95.1 -0.2
Informal votes 3,775 4.9 +0.2
Turnout 77,019 88.4 -2.2
Labor hold Swing +5.4

South

Western Australian state election, 1980: South Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Thomas Knight 10,982 47.1 -5.5
National Robert Whalley 7,362 31.6 +31.6
National Country Robert Russell 4,951 21.3 -14.2
Total formal votes 23,295 96.4 +1.5
Informal votes 876 3.6 -1.5
Turnout 24,171 91.3 -1.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Thomas Knight 15,142 65.0
National Robert Whalley 8,153 35.0
Liberal hold Swing N/A

South Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1980: South Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Howard Olney 32,765 58.1 +5.2
Liberal John Buhagiar 23,656 41.9 -5.2
Total formal votes 56,421 95.6 -0.1
Informal votes 2,603 4.4 +0.1
Turnout 59,024 89.2 -2.2
Labor hold Swing +5.2

South-East

Western Australian state election, 1980: South-East Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor James Brown 11,027 58.2 +6.7
Liberal Irvin Muir 7,928 41.8 -6.7
Total formal votes 18,955 93.4 -1.2
Informal votes 1,340 6.6 +1.2
Turnout 20,295 86.9 -2.3
Labor hold Swing +6.7

South-East Metropolitan

Western Australian state election, 1980: South-East Metropolitan Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Phillip Pendal 34,749 53.2 -4.7
Labor Grace Vaughan 30,610 46.8 +4.7
Total formal votes 65,359 96.6 +0.5
Informal votes 2,613 3.4 -0.5
Turnout 67,972 88.6 -2.4
Liberal gain from Labor Swing -4.7

South-West

Western Australian state election, 1980: South-West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Graham MacKinnon 14,927 59.1 +2.7
Labor Pandora Nikola 10,320 40.9 +6.3
Total formal votes 25,247 96.6 +0.5
Informal votes 892 3.4 -0.5
Turnout 26,139 91.4 -2.1
Liberal hold Swing N/A

Upper West

Western Australian state election, 1980: Upper West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Margaret McAleer 11,453 45.6 -0.4
National Sue Shields 7,458 29.7 +29.7
National Country Robert Michael 4,457 17.8 -9.3
Total formal votes 25,086 96.3 +0.2
Informal votes 952 3.7 -0.2
Turnout 26,038 89.9 -1.9
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Margaret McAleer 15,829 63.1 +13.7
National Sue Shields 9,257 36.9 +36.9
Liberal hold Swing N/A

West

Western Australian state election, 1980: West Province
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Gordon Masters 14,553 61.9 +0.6
Labor Jan Kaub 8,968 38.1 -0.6
Total formal votes 23,521 96.7 +1.1
Informal votes 801 3.3 -1.1
Turnout 24,322 88.9 -1.2
Liberal hold Swing +0.6

See also

References

  1. ^ http://elections.uwa.edu.au/elecdetail.lasso?keyvalue=1565
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