1980 Western Australian state election

Results

Legislative Assembly

| turnout % = 85.27% | informal % = 3.52% |votes % = 43.75% |votes % = 45.95% |votes % = 4.30% |votes % = 2.96% |votes % = 1.96% |votes % = 0.26% |votes % = 0.18% |votes % = 0.65% |2pp % 1 = 50.97% |2pp % 2 = 49.03% |}

Notes: : 714,724 electors were enrolled to vote at the election, but two seats were uncontested: the seat of Collie, held by Labor's Tom Jones and representing 8,854 electors, and East Melville, won by the Liberals' Anthony Trethowan representing 16,804 electors, which was uncontested due to the Labor candidate's failure to submit their nomination on time. : The National Country Party contested seven seats in the 1977 election, winning six of them and attaining 5.28% of the vote. The National Party split from the National Country Party on 10 August 1978, with the former contesting 8 seats and the latter 11.

Legislative Council

| turnout % = 88.41% | informal % = 4.38% |votes % = 47.51% |votes % = 44.77% |votes % = 3.82% |votes % = 3.43% |votes % = 0.47% |votes % = 0.00% |2pp % 1 = 52.36% |2pp % 2 = 47.64% |}

Notes: : The National Country Party contested four seats in the 1977 election, winning three of them and attaining 5.56% of the vote. The National Party split from the National Country Party on 10 August 1978, with the former contesting 5 seats and the latter 4.

Seats changing hands

Post-election pendulum

References

References

1. Watt, Edward David. (December 1980). "Australian Political Chronicle: January–June 1980 (Western Australia)". Australian Journal of Politics and History.