Labor landslide across regional WA sees second Kimberley-based MP and first Aboriginal MLC elected
TueTuesday 16
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New Kimberley MP Divina D Anna celebrates with supporters in Broome on election night.
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Western Australia s landslide backing of the McGowan Government looks to have completely re-shaped the electoral map in the remotest parts of the state.
Key points:
Voters across the Kimberley, Pilbara, Gascoyne and Goldfields have delivered Labor an unprecedented 57 per cent of the vote in the Mining and Pastoral region
The district will see four Labor MPs elected for the first time in its four-decade history
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Ayor Makur Chuot, 31, was a long way from the Kenyan refugee camp her family lived in for nearly a decade on Saturday night as she realised she would soon be elected to the West Australian Parliament.
Surrounded by a boisterous crowd of Labor die-hards at Seafood Nation at Hillarys Boat Harbour and watching Liberal seats tumble, the accountant and former model running for the upper house said she started to get excited when she saw Hillarys candidate Caitlin Collins would take the traditional blue-ribbon seat.
Labor North Metropolitan MLC-elect Ayor Chuot.
Credit:Peter de Kruijff
âI knew if we had a big swing from Caitlinâs section and also other bigger areas, it means I was going to have a big chance of getting in the upper house,â she said.