At 6.00 pm polling in the 2017 State general election will close and the counting of millions of ballot papers will commence.
As has traditionally been the case, Western Australians tended to vote early with large numbers of electors waiting for doors to open at 8.00 am this morning at over 740 polling places throughout WA.
This has been an election of records. Nearly 1.6 million Western Australians were eligible to vote. Over 300,000 of them voted early, either by post or in person at an early voting centre in WA, interstate or overseas.
The indicative counting of votes happens at all polling places and results are sent though progressively for posting to the results pages of this website. The first results are likely to come in from small country polling places with small numbers of votes to count. These should start to flow through from around 6.30 pm while larger venues that took thousands of votes will take considerably longer.
Each polling place undertakes three counts –
- the first preference count of ordinary votes for the Legislative Assembly district
- an indicative two candidate preferred count for the Legislative Assembly district
- a count of ‘above the line’ ticket votes for the Legislative Council region.