What you need to know before you vote in WA today

You cannot blame West Australians for waking up with a feeling of Deja-VU this morning, while we are preparing to vote in our second elections in just eight weeks.

Those who have not yet voted, that is, either by post or on a pre-poll station and more than 400,000 of us have taken that option.

In March we voted to choose Labor again for the government in WA, where Prime Minister Roger Cook won a comfortable majority.

This time it is The federal elections And the fate of Prime Minister Anthony Albanian, also Labor, is at stake.

Where can I vote?

If you have not visited a pre-poll station or have submitted a post voice, is today.

You can find out where a polling station is near you here.

Polling stations Open at 8 am and close at 6 pm.

Do I need ID to vote?

No.

You only have to give your full name and address to the polling officer who issues the ballot papers as soon as you are asked.

You will also be asked if you have already voted in the elections.

Will WA votes matter?

The voices of West -Australia were crucial in propagating Anthony Albanese in the lodge In 2022, with work that picked up four seats from the liberals.

It was a memorable election in which Five of Was When 15 federal seats changed ownership.

The liberals all lost them, the remaining that fell to browse independent Kate Chaney in Curtin.

Whether the voices of WA have the same impact this time depends on how the figures fall in the other states and areas, where polls up to two hours earlier than ours close.

Although Labor has emerged as a scary favorite to win, some polls predict a minority government – and the voices of WA can again be crucial.

What are the seats to look at?

There are different chairs that can change ownership.

Both Kate Chaney in Goses and Sam Lim (Alp) in Tangney Won last time on preferences in slim margins.

Chaney has a margin of 1.3 percent, while Lim has a buffer of 2.8 percent.

Chaney is confronted with liberal hopeful and former Uber director Tom White, while the most important competitor of Lim Liberal Howarg is on.

Moore Is the most marginal chair of the liberals, in the hands of only 0.9 percent, and here it becomes interesting.

The established Ian Goedenough was unable to win preselectation for the party and is now running as an independent candidate against liberal hopeful and former MP Vince Connelly.

The new chair of Bull Is notional work, but with his complicated mix of wheatbelt farmers and suburban families, it is difficult to know who will prevail.

Former Nationals WA leader Mia Davies fights for the seat against the Matt Moran of the Liberals and Labor’s Trish Cook

And outskirts Pearce Is another chair to look at, with a number of areas that have seen large swings against work in the recent State elections.

Our voters are huge

Wa is divided into 16 voters-two ginormous, and the 14 much smaller

Durack is by far the largest constituency in Australia, with a land mass of almost 1.4 million square kilometers, and it takes 54 percent of the state.

It covers the entire northwest of the state, from the outer metropolitan edge in Bullsbrook, all the way to the northern tip of the state.

O’Connor is the other huge electorate and it is also more than a million square kilometers in the area, which extends from the distant northern gold fields and remote desert communities of the Nakyatjarra countries, to calm Nannup and Bridgetown in the southwest.

When shall we know the election result?

That is a difficult question to answer.

In some years the result is known before we even finish voices in the West, thanks to that two -hour time difference with the east coast.

That seems unlikely this time, and if it is closer than expected, the composition of a potentially minority government could take days to determine.

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