WA election: Mark McGowan poised for prolonged dominance following historic landslide victory

There are few other ways to describe Mark McGowan’s second landslide election victory as anything short of historic.

The WA Labor Premier had already been swept to power in a win for the ages back in 2017 but, four years later, he has incredibly topped even that result.

Labor have obliterated the WA Liberals, reducing them to a predicted two seats.

It is a victory that is unparalleled in its crushing nature and the largest in the state’s history, West Australians have never put this much faith in one party anywhere near to this extent before.

The election outcome has seen territory the WA Liberals considered entirely safe during the last election turn red, noteably former Liberal leader Liza Harvey’s seat of Scarborough, Shadow treasurer…