WA election: the west may already be won for Labor – it’s just a matter of by how much

The biggest unknown in the largely predictable Western Australia election campaign is the extent to which Libby Mettam's Liberals can re-emerge from the political wilderness

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Anyone who has been looking in horror at the political upheaval in the US may welcome Western Australia's dull and predictable election this weekend.

The Labor premier, Roger Cook, is so assured of winning a third term for his party that the state's only newspaper didn't release any public opinion polls until the very eve of the election.

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