{"id":872592,"date":"2026-08-29T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872592\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:16:10","slug":"secret-harbour-byelection-live-updates-polls-close-and-the-count-begins-wa-seat-up-for-grabs-in-labor-one-nation-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872592\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Harbour byelection LIVE updates: Polls close \u2013 and the count begins; WA seat up for grabs in Labor, One Nation showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAtoday is at the byelection functions of the two parties the battle for Secret Harbour has narrowed down to \u2013 Labor and One Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Hamish Hastie is in the room at Georgia Tree\u2019s function, where the mood is upbeat. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crowds at Labor\u2019s Secret Harbour byelection function on Saturday night.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a852a3ac5e2ef61210f64ecac8d5e5c64c44c5df2b32298dbc7ad0629284558.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Crowds at Labor\u2019s Secret Harbour byelection function on Saturday night.Hamish Hastie<\/p>\n<p>About 130 people have streamed in, including Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti, Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson, and WA Senator Dorinda Cox.<\/p>\n<p>Tree and WA Premier Roger Cook are not expected at the function until later in the evening, when they will deliver a speech.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Michael Philipps is across town at Luke Herdegen\u2019s function, where One Nation are continuing to stream in. <\/p>\n<p>Will One Nation stage an upset? Stay tuned to find out. Half an hour since polls have closed and the WA Electoral Commission has not yet updated its count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAtoday is at the byelection functions of the two parties the battle for Secret Harbour has narrowed down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-872592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}