Longstanding Greens MP Giz Watson has failed in her bid to for election to the upper house from the South West region. Source: PerthNow
UPPER HOUSE: Shooters and Fishers WA leader Rick Mazza scores an upper house seat in the WA Parliament. Picture: inmycommunity Source: PerthNow
CABINET TIP: Riverton MP Mike Nahan is tipped to be the new Energy Minister in a revised Liberal Cabinet. Source: PerthNow
THE West Australian parliamentary career of veteran Greens MP Giz Watson has been brought to an end.
Ms Watson failed in her bid to for election to the upper house from the South West region.
The six incumbents - Liberals Robyn McSweeny, Barry House and Nigel Hallett, Labor's Sally Talbot and Adele Farina, and Nationals WA president Colin Holt - were all re-elected.
Ms Watson was elected to the Legislative Council at the 1996 election as a member for the North Metropolitan region, and was re-elected in 2001, 2005 and 2008.
Last week after the Liberal party's landslide win, she said she'd remain heavily involved with the Greens.
Shooters and Fishers make a splash
THE Shooters and Fishers Party has secured one seat in Western Australia's upper house.
The NSW-based party registered in WA late last year.
The WA Electoral Commission announced today that Rick Mazza, the leader of the Shooters and Fishers Party, had won a seat in the Legislative Council's agricultural region.
Liberals Jim Chown and Brian Ellis, Nationals Paul Brown and Martin Aldridge, and Labor's Darren West won the other seats in the upper house's agricultural region.
However the Shooters and Fishers party has missed out on an expected second seat in the upper house.
Its Mining and Pastoral region candidate John Parkes was pipped by Dave Grills of The Nationals by 223 votes.
Other seats went to Robin Chapple of the Greens, Liberals Ken Baston and Mark Lewis, Labor's Stephen Dawson and Jacqui Boydell of The Nationals.
Winners for the East Metropolitan region will be announced later today.
More counting is needed for the North Metropolitan region, so winners of these seats will be unveiled on Wednesday.
Same line-up for South Metro seats
All six members of the West Australian Legislative Council's South Metropolitan region have been re-elected.
The seats will again be held by Lynn MacLaren of the Greens, Labor's Kate Doust and Sue Ellery, and Liberals Nicolas Goiran, Phil Edman and Simon O'Brien.
Media speculation suggests Mr O'Brien may lose his role as finance minister to Riverton MP Mike Nahan.
The WA Electoral Commission will release the winners for the Legislative Council's East Metropolitan region later today.
Nahan tipped to be new Energy Minister
SPECULATION is rife over the line-up of WA's new Cabinet, with media reports suggesting science minister John Day will be able to name his role.
The Liberals will hold a party meeting later on Tuesday and is expected to announce the new ministry today, after the 36 members of the Legislative Council are revealed.
It's already known the Shooters and Fishers Party will make its parliamentary debut with two upper house seats - the same amount the Greens has been reduced to after losing two seats.
In the meantime, reports speculate Mr Day will be given the pick of ministerial portfolios, given Premier Colin Barnett announced during the election campaign he would take personal responsibility for science.
And many fingers point to environment minister Bill Marmion taking on the crucial mines portfolio from the state's longest serving MP Norman Moore, who is retiring.
Mr Marmion is seen as a good fit because of his civil engineering background and knowledge of the approvals process.
Member for Riverton Mike Nahan is expected to take on the energy portfolio after beating Hannah Beazley, the daughter of former prime ministerial contender and current Australian Ambassador to the US Kim Beazley.
Dr Nahan, an advocate of nuclear and renewable energy, won the seat by a mere 64 votes in 2008 but this year beat his main opponent by more than 4400 votes.
Other less prevalent speculation is that child protection minister Robyn McSweeney will be demoted, while 33-year-old Ocean Reef Liberal MP Albert Jacob could join Cabinet.
A key question is whether WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls will remain minister for regional development.
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