Election Results
| Western Australian state election, 2008: Maylands | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Lisa Baker | 8,065 | 43.7 | -10.8 | |
| Liberal | Ainslie Gatt | 6,270 | 33.9 | +7.4 | |
| Greens | Hsien Harper | 3,524 | 19.1 | +7.2 | |
| Christian Democrats | Dunstan Hartley | 614 | 3.3 | -0.4 | |
| Total formal votes | 18,473 | 93.7 | -0.6 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,241 | 6.3 | +0.6 | ||
| Turnout | 19,714 | 84.7 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Lisa Baker | 10,899 | 59.0 | -8.4 | |
| Liberal | Ainslie Gatt | 7,572 | 41.0 | +8.4 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -8.4 | |||
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