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Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Western Australia

House of Representatives elections for Western Australia in May 2025

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ134274634 ↗
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This is a list of electoral division results for the 2025 Australian federal election in the state of Western Australia.

Labor polled 55.8% of the two-party preferred vote in Western Australia, the party's best ever result in the state since 1949, and the worst ever performance for the Liberal Party since its formation in 1944.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 1949, 1944—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Results, Australian and federal can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as house of Representatives elections for Western Australia in May 2025. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Results of the 2025 Australian federal election in Western Australia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.