The long-awaited West Australian election editorial nominates Labor as the lesser of the available evils, but the paper makes up for it with a second successive front page on the matter of independent candidate Choy Chan Ma in Riverton. Labor member Tony McRae is reported as having gone "into hiding" while much is made of Liberal Party complaints to the Crime and Corruption Commission and the Electoral Commission (although the latter has already investigated the candidate’s complaint and found no wrongdoing). Elsewhere, Robert Taylor reports that the Coalition is "comfortable" with the prospect of governing with the support of Churchlands independent Elizabeth Constable but "horrified at the thought of relying on Alfred Cove‘s Janet Woollard"
The Westpoll results mentioned earlier in the Sydney Morning Herald are from a survey taken on Monday and Tuesday, before Colin Barnett’s costings disaster:
| Primary | 2PP | ||||||
| ALP | LNP | GRN | ALP | LIB | |||
| Bunbury | 32 | 49 | 7 | 41 | 59 | ||
| Joondalup | 39 | 50 | 4 | 46 | 54 | ||
| Riverton | 42 | 43 | 5 | 49 | 51 | ||
| Albany | 39 | 45 | 5 | 44 | 56 | ||
| Murray | 38 | 53 | 4 | 43 | 57 | ||
