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2023 Perth City Council Election
The 2023 Perth City Council election was held on was held on 21 October 2023 to elect a lord mayor and 4 councillors to the City of Perth. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Western Australia. Background The previous mayoral election was held in October 2020, following the council's suspension by the Western Australian state government in 2018. Four of the eight councillors elected in 2020 faced another election in 2021, while the remaining four had their terms expire in 2023. Three candidates contended the position of Lord Mayor − incumbent Basil Zempilas, councillor Sandy Anghie (who also contested the 2020 election) and Will Leyland. The campaign was surrounded by claims that Zempilas would join the Western Australian Liberal Party and contest the 2025 state election. On 6 September 2023, Zempilas confirmed he would seek re-election. Anghie campaigned on "serving full time for a full term," and said she did not have ambitions for state or fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Zempilas
Basil Anthony Zempilas (; born 30 July 1971) is an Australian politician who is the leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party and the member for Churchlands in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, serving in both roles since March 2025. He previously served as the Lord Mayor of Perth from 2020 until 2025. Zempilas is a former footballer, television and radio presenter, sports commentator and columnist. He presented sport on '' Seven News Perth'' Monday to Thursday until 2022. In 2018 he became a co-host of '' Weekend Sunrise''. He was also a member of the Seven Network's AFL commentary team. He has co-hosted Perth radio station breakfast programs on 92.9, 6PR and Triple M Perth. Early life Zempilas is of Greek descent – his mother Jessie was born on the island of Kastellorizo and his father Anthony's family also originates from the island. He attended Floreat Park Primary School and Hale School in Perth; he attended Hale along with Liberal Party politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Australian Federal Election
The 2022 Australian federal election was held on Saturday, 21 May 2022, to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia. The incumbent Morrison government, Liberal–National Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, sought to win a fourth consecutive term in office but was defeated by the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese. Up for election were all 151 seats in the lower house, the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives, as well as 40 of the 76 seats in the upper house, the Australian Senate, Senate. The voter turnout of 89.82% in this election was the lowest in modern history, falling below 90% for the first time since 1922 Australian federal election, 1922, prior to the introduction of compulsory voting in Australia. The Labor Party achieved a majority government for the first time since 2007, winning 77 seats in the House of Representatives. Albanese was sworn in as Prime Minister on 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-past-the-post
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a Plurality (voting), ''plurality'') is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a ''majority''). FPP has been used to elect part of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, British House of Commons since the Middle Ages before spreading throughout the British Empire. Throughout the 20th century, many countries that previously used FPP have abandoned it in favor of other electoral systems, including the former British colonies of Australia and New Zealand. FPP is still De jure, officially used in the majority of U.S. state, US states for most elections. However, the combination of Partisan primary, partisan primaries and a two-party system in these jurisd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral Sea, Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are Enclave and exclave, enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its Western Australia border, western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Optional Preferential Voting
One of the ways in which ranked voting systems vary is whether an individual vote must express a minimum number of preferences to avoid being considered invalid ("spoiled" or "informal" or "rejected"). Possibilities are: * Full preferential voting (FPV) requires all candidates to be ranked * Optional preferential voting (OPV) requires only one candidate, the voter's first preference, to be indicated * Semi-optional preferential voting requires ranking more than one candidate but not necessary to rank all the candidates. Ranked-voting systems typically use a ballot paper in which the voter is required to write numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. opposite the name of the candidate who is their first, second, third, etc. preference. In OPV and semi-optional systems, candidates not explicitly ranked by the voter are implicitly ranked lower than all numbered candidates. Some OPV jurisdictions permit a ballot expressing a single preference to use some other mark than the digit '1', such as a cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan (born 13 July 1967) is an Australian former politician and naval officer who served as the 30th premier of Western Australia from 2017 until his retirement in 2023. He was the leader of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2012 to 2023 and a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Rockingham from 1996 to 2023. McGowan was born and raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. He attended the University of Queensland and worked as a legal officer for the Royal Australian Navy, serving at naval base , south of Perth. Settling in Western Australia, he was elected as a councillor for the City of Rockingham from 1994, and was later elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly at the 1996 election, representing the district of Rockingham. In 2001, he was made Parliamentary Secretary to Premier Geoff Gallop, and was later a Cabinet Minister in both the Gallop and Carpenter Governments from 2005 to 2008. McGo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Western Australia
The Parliament of Western Australia is the bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia, which constitutes the legislative branch of the state's political system. The parliament consists of the Monarchy of Australia, King (represented by the Governor of Western Australia, governor), the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council (the upper house) and the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly (the lower house). The two houses of parliament sit in Parliament House, Perth, Parliament House in the state capital, Perth. For a bill to become law, it must be passed by both the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly, and receive royal assent from the Governor. The party or coalition commanding the support of a majority of the members of the Legislative Assembly is invited by the governor to form government. The head of government holds the office of Premier of Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Greens
The Australian Greens, commonly referred to simply as the Greens, are a Left-wing politics, left-wing green party, green Australian List of political parties in Australia, political party. As of 2025, the Greens are the third largest political party in Australia by vote and the fourth-largest by elected representation. Following the 2025 Australian federal election, 2025 Australian Federal Election, Larissa Waters serves as Leader of the Greens and Mehreen Faruqi serves as deputy leader. The party was formed in 1992 as a confederation of eight state and territorial parties. In their early years, the party was largely built around the personality of well-known Tasmanian politician Bob Brown, before expanding its representation substantially in the early part of the 21st century. The party cites four core values as its ideology, namely sustainability, ecological sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy, and peace movement, peace and non-violence. The party's origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Cowan
The Division of Cowan () is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia. Cowan is an inner-northern Perth seat lying generally between Morley Drive and Hepburn Avenue, extending from the Mitchell Freeway in the west to the Tonkin Highway and Lord Street, Perth, Lord Street in the east. Cowan is a marginal seat that leans toward the Australian Labor Party. The current Parliament of Australia, MP is Anne Aly, and member of Labor and the first Islam in Australia, Muslim woman elected to federal parliament. She speaks Arabic and has previously worked in the Western Australia public service as a senior policy advisor. History The division was created in 1984 and is named for Edith Cowan, the first woman elected to an Australian Parliament. It is a marginal seat, changing hands between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party. All but one of its members has served at least one term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greens Western Australia
The Greens (WA) is a member party of the Australian Greens in Western Australia. The Greens (WA) was formed following the merger of the Western Australian Green Party with the Green Earth Alliance composed of the Vallentine Peace Group and Alternative Coalition in 1990. The Party became officially affiliated with the Australian Greens in 2003. There are currently four Greens members in the state legislative council: Brad Pettitt, Tim Clifford, Jess Beckerling and Sophie McNeill. The party is also represented federally in the senate by Jordon Steele-John. History Origins The Greens (WA) grew out of the growing counter-cultural, environmental, anti-nuclear and peace, social and political concerns after the fall of the Whitlam government, particularly articulated by Jim Cairns in the Down to Earth movement that saw community sustainability emerging as an important issue. The Campaign to Save Native Forests and an environmental campaign against the Alcoa refinery at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Western Australian State Election
The 2025 Western Australian state election was held on 8 March 2025 to elect members to the Parliament of Western Australia, where all 59 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and all 37 seats in the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council were up for election. The Western Australian Labor Party, Labor First Cook ministry, government, led by Premier of Western Australia, Premier Roger Cook (politician), Roger Cook, won a third consecutive four-year term in a landslide victory, landslide, becoming the first party to win a third term in Western Australia since 1989 Western Australian state election, 1989. Labor were challenged by the Western Australian Liberal Party, Liberal Party, led by Libby Mettam and by the National Party of Australia (WA), National Party, led by Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia), Opposition Leader Shane Love. This was Labor's third consecutive landslide victory since winning government in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
