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Perth

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Projection for Perth

ALP
35.4%
GRN
26.6%
LIB
19.9%
ONP
18.2%

The line traces Perth's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in WA's own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Perth, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 65% of simulations
Labor 65.6%
Coalition (Liberal) 34.4%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Perth

4.6%
Unemployment rate
0.5pt below Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
1901
Size
69 km²
Current member
Patrick Gorman (Labor)
Population
181,928
Median age
37
Median household income
$1,871/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
1.2%

Ancestry

European
58.9%
Australian
24.2%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
69.5%
Mandarin
2.8%
Italian
2.4%
Vietnamese
1.9%
Cantonese
1.4%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
43.1%
Christian
28.5%
Buddhism
3.5%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
38.4%
High School
28.8%
TAFE Educated
22%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Renting
42%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
31%
Owned (No Mortgage)
24%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
65%
Blue collar
33%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Perth

20222025Projection
ALP39.3%43.0%35.4%
LIB26.7%26.1%19.9%
GRN22.2%24.5%26.6%
ONP2.7%6.3%18.2%
Other9.2%——

Latest update: 2 October 2026