WA Liberals' worst fears are realised as Zak Kirkup is unseated

Humiliating night for the party with Labor on course to win 53 of Western Australia's 59 lower house seats

It's been 88 years since the leader of a Western Australian party last lost their seat at a state election. But that ignominy has befallen Zak Kirkup on a humiliating night for the WA Liberals as voters delivered a landslide to Mark McGowan's Labor government.

With Labor on course to claim 53 of WA's 59 lower house seats, the Liberals have retained just two seats statewide and suffered a bloodbath in metropolitan Perth in which they have lost everything but their crown jewel of Cottesloe. The wipeout leaves the Nationals' Mia Davies poised to become the state's next opposition leader.