Election Results
| Western Australian state election, 2008: Murray-Wellington | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Murray Cowper | 8,713 | 44.4 | +1.1 | |
| Labor | Anthony Marinovich | 5,824 | 29.6 | -5.7 | |
| WA Nationals | Michael Rose | 1,643 | 8.4 | +0.8 | |
| Greens | Deni Fuller | 1,374 | 7.0 | +2.5 | |
| Family First | David Bolt | 1,232 | 6.3 | +4.7 | |
| Christian Democrats | Vivian Hill | 415 | 2.1 | +0.2 | |
| Independent | Alycia Bermingham | 216 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Independent | Kevin Cloghan | 143 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| CEC | Brian McCarthy | 85 | 0.4 | +0.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 19,645 | 94.1 | -0.4 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,234 | 5.9 | +0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 20,879 | 87.8 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Murray Cowper | 11,467 | 58.4 | +2.4 | |
| Labor | Anthony Marinovich | 8,154 | 41.6 | -2.4 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.4 | |||
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