Election Results
| Western Australian state election, 2008: Collie-Preston | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Mick Murray | 8,439 | 41.00 | -1.3 | |
| Liberal | Steve Thomas | 8,260 | 40.13 | +2.4 | |
| Greens WA | Richard Chapman | 1,802 | 8.75 | +2.7 | |
| Family First | Keith Hopper | 1,534 | 7.45 | +4.6 | |
| Christian Democrats | Wayne Barnett | 548 | 2.66 | +1.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 20,583 | 95.46 | |||
| Informal votes | 979 | 4.54 | |||
| Turnout | 21,562 | 90.33 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Mick Murray | 10,494 | 51.00 | +0.1 | |
| Liberal | Steve Thomas | 10,083 | 49.00 | -0.1 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +0.1 | |||
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