Election Results
| Western Australian state election, 2008: Darling Range | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Tony Simpson | 9513 | 46.80 | +5.9 | |
| Labor | Lisa Griffiths | 6,893 | 33.91 | -7.7 | |
| Greens WA | Denise Hardie | 2,913 | 14.33 | +7.3 | |
| Christian Democrats | Rachel Cabrera | 1,010 | 4.97 | +1.3 | |
| Total formal votes | 20,329 | 94.54 | -1.08 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,173 | 5.46 | +1.08 | ||
| Turnout | 21,502 | 89.32 | -2.95 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Tony Simpson | 11,292 | 55.6 | +6.3 | |
| Labor | Lisa Griffiths | 9,030 | 44.4 | -6.3 | |
| Liberal gain from Labor | Swing | +6.3 | |||
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