The Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), commonly known as WA Labor, is the

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

n branch of the

Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms the f ...

. It is the current governing party of Western Australia since winning the 2017 election under

Mark McGowan Mark McGowan (born 13 July 1967) is an Australian politician, the 30th premier of Western Australia, and the leader of the Western Australian branch of the Labor Party. McGowan was born and raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. He attended t ...

History

The Western Australian state division of the

was formed at a

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Congress in Coolgardie in 1899. Shortly afterwards the federal Labor Party was formalised in time for

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in 1901. The WA Labor Party achieved representation in the

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in 1900 with six members, and four years later the party entered into minority government with

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becoming the first Labor

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Leadership

The current leaders of the party are: * Parliamentary Leader:

(

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) * State President: Lorna Clarke * State Secretary: Ellie Whiteaker * Assistant State Secretary: Lauren Cayoun * State Treasurer: Naomi McLean

Election results for Legislative Assembly

References

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Political parties in Western Australia