The 2022 Australian federal election was held on 21 May 2022 to elect all 151 members of the Australian House of Representatives and 40 of 76 members of the Australian Senate. Of those, 15 MPs and 6 senators were elected to represent the state of Western Australia.

This election was held using Instant-runoff voting. In Western Australia in this election, there were two "turn-overs". In Curtin, an Independent candidate who did not lead in the first count took the seat in the end, and in Tangney, Labor won the seat despite trailing on first preferences. In both of these seats, the Liberals finished first.

Overall results +House of Representatives (IRV) – Turnout 87.99% (CV) Party Votes % Swing (pp) Seats Change (seats)  Australian Labor Party 542,667 36.84 +7.04 9 4    Liberal Party of Australia 503,254 34.16 −9.63 5 6  National Party of Australia 9,160 0.62 −0.81 0 Coalition total 512,414 34.78 −10.44 5 6  Australian Greens 184,094 12.50 +0.88 0   Pauline Hanson's One Nation 58,226 3.95 −1.36 0   United Australia Party 33,863 2.30 +0.27 0   Western Australia Party 33,263 2.26 +0.46 0   Australian Christians 19,867 1.35 −0.35 0   The Great Australian Party 16,553 1.12 +1.06 0   Australian Federation Party 15,920 1.08 +1.08 0   Liberal Democratic Party 12,897 0.88 +0.88 0   Animal Justice Party 5,524 0.37 +0.28 0   Socialist Alliance 1,184 0.08 +0.01 0   Informed Medical Options Party 785 0.05 +0.05 0   Independents 35,968 2.44 +1.34 1 1 Total 1,473,225 100.00 – 15 1 Invalid/blank votes 86,057 5.52 +0.08 –– Turnout 1,559,282 87.99 −2.06 –– Registered voters 1,772,065 –––– Two-party-preferred vote  810,206 55.00 +10.55   663,019 45.00 −10.55 Source: AEC for both votes and seats

Results by division Brand

Burt

Canning

Cowan

Curtin

Durack

Forrest

Fremantle

Hasluck

Moore

O'Connor

Pearce

Perth

Swan

Tangney

Analysis In this election, the Australian Labor Party led by Anthony Albanese took 4 House seats from the opposing Liberal Party of Australia, thereby gaining the majority of Western Australia's lower house seats for the first time since 1990. The Liberals under Scott Morrison lost a total of 6 seats, including all but 2 of its seats in the Perth metropolitan area.

The results in Western Australia were the subject of significant media attention on election night, as the swing towards Labor in the state was much higher than every other state and territory at 10.55%, and the swing was large enough to deliver a Labor majority government. Labor not only picked up all three seats that they targeted in their campaign—namely Pearce, Swan and Hasluck—but also won the formerly safe Liberal seat of Tangney in one of the biggest upsets of the election. In addition to the seats won by Labor, the Division of Curtin was won by teal independent candidate Kate Chaney, while Stirling was lost due to abolition. Vince Connelly, Stirling's final MP, attempted to transfer to the Division of Cowan, but was unsuccessful.

Labor's two party preferred result in Western Australia of 55.00% is its best performance, tied with its result (also 55.00% in Western Australia) in its 1983 landslide election win.House of Representatives - Two party preferred results 1949 - present, Australian Electoral Commission.

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