Election Results
| Western Australian state election, 2008: Victoria Park | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Ben Wyatt | 9,137 | 46.8 | -2.3 | |
| Liberal | Ben Travia | 6,723 | 34.4 | +4.6 | |
| Greens | Kim Lisson | 2,726 | 13.9 | +4.6 | |
| Christian Democrats | Saskia Matthews | 490 | 2.5 | -0.4 | |
| Family First | James Olsen | 468 | 2.4 | +2.4 | |
| Total formal votes | 19,544 | 95.2 | +0.1 | ||
| Informal votes | 979 | 4.8 | -0.1 | ||
| Turnout | 20,523 | 84.8 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Ben Wyatt | 11,523 | 59.0 | -4.7 | |
| Liberal | Ben Travia | 8,012 | 41.0 | +4.7 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -4.7 | |||
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