WA State Election Result
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-23/ ... /101089054
After a 2017 state election bloodbath which toppled Colin Barnett's long-term government, WA Liberals consoled themselves with the message that things could not get any worse.
How wrong they were.
In the five years since, things have continued to get substantially worse for WA's once-dominant political force.
At a state level, the Liberals barely exist.
They held on to just two lower house seats in the 2021 election wipe-out, forcing them to hand leadership of the Opposition to the Nationals.
Like in 2017, Liberals thought that result 14 months ago was as bad as things could get for them.
And they were wrong again.
The scale of the Liberal losses in WA's federal seats may not be quite as extreme as that state result, but blue-ribbon territory has once again fallen all over Perth.
And instead of battling irrelevance at just the state level, WA Liberals now face exactly the same fate federally.