A reminder: the drama won’t stop in the West tomorrow

Tomorrow’s Western Australian state election should be dramatic enough — and there is likely to be more drama next Friday.

That’s when the Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed it will hand down proposed new electoral boundaries for both WA and Victoria.

It’s not going to be the most pleasant redistribution for the government. Population growth means that Melbourne will gain a new and likely Labor seat in its booming burbs, but that an electorate will go in metropolitan Perth.

All the focus is on Stirling, held by Labor’s Anne Aly, a seat that has seesawed between Labor and Liberal since its creation in 1984, Cowan, and Pearce, held by Liberal Vince Connolly, 30 years older than Cowan but with a similar…