Election Results
| Western Australian state election, 2008: Alfred Cove | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Chris Back | 8,628 | 43.14 | +5.20 | |
| Independent | Janet Woollard | 5,094 | 25.47 | +1.51 | |
| Labor | Catherine Barratt | 4,059 | 20.29 | -2.55 | |
| Greens WA | Michael Bennett | 1,907 | 9.53 | +3.17 | |
| Christian Democrats | Stephen Wardell-Johnson | 314 | 1.57 | -0.54 | |
| Total formal votes | 20,002 | 95.96 | -0.54 | ||
| Informal votes | 843 | 4.04 | +0.54 | ||
| Turnout | 20,845 | 88.38 | -3.47 | ||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Independent | Janet Woollard | 10,200 | 51.01 | -3.56 | |
| Liberal | Chris Back | 9,795 | 48.99 | +3.56 | |
| Independent hold | Swing | -3.56 | |||
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