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WA Election: Sean L’Estrange loses Churchlands, leaving Liberals with just two Lower House seats

The WA Liberals have been left with just two Lower House members after Labor won the seat of Churchlands.
Key points:
- Churchlands has never before been held by Labor
- Sean L’Estrange had held the seat since 2013
- Labor has 53 seats, the Liberals two and the Nationals four
With 86 per cent of the vote counted, ABC election analyst Antony Green has called the seat for Labor’s Christine Tonkin.
The seat was previously held by Liberal Sean L’Estrange with a margin of 11.7 per cent and has never been held by Labor.
Ms Tonkin leads by more than 200 votes with only a small number of pre-poll and absent votes to be counted.
It was the final seat to be called in the WA election and meant Labor would hold an unprecedented 53 seats in the Lower…
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