Australia’s populist One Nation has claimed a major electoral breakthrough in Western Australia, capturing the state seat of Secret Harbor and dealing a major defeat to leftist Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his governing Labor Party.

One Nation candidate Luke Herdegen secured approximately 57 percent of the two-party-preferred vote against Labor’s Georgia Tree.

The result marks an important breakthrough for Pauline Hanson’s party, demonstrating its growing national support.

The by-election was triggered by the midterm retirement of senior Labor Minister Paul Papalia.

One Nation’s Western Australian leader, Rod Caddies, declared victory on Saturday evening, predicting the result would send “shock waves across the entire country.”

“There are no safe Labor seats in this state or in this country any more,” Caddies said.

One Nation can win seats off Labor that the Coalition couldn’t dream of winning. The result in Secret Harbour puts paid do the myth that we only take votes off the coalition. Labor voters on a historic scale swung to One Nation. This was one of WA Labor’s safest seats.pic.twitter.com/XlDsYKR23w
— One Nation Australia (@OneNationAus)August 29, 2026

Hanson similarly hailed the result as evidence that her party is becoming a serious electoral force capable of challenging Australia’s two major parties.

“The result in Secret Harbour should be a warning to Labor, we’re coming for more of your seats,” she wrote on X.

“Australians are choosing One Nation as a serious alternative to the tired old uni-party who have destroyed our nations economic prowess.”

One Nation has taken a seat where the Liberals have never been able to challenge Labor.
We are the only party that can take the fight to Anthony Albanese where the Liberal Party never could.
Because Australians are looking for someone who will actually stand up for them.
We’re…
— Pauline Hanson $\"🇦🇺\"$ (@PaulineHansonOz)August 29, 2026

Former Nationals leader and current One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce said the victory demonstrated that the party’s strong polling numbers were translating into actual votes.

“Politics has changed,” Joyce said, arguing that One Nation was increasingly attracting former Labor supporters.

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One Nation campaigns on lower immigration, tougher law and order, Australian economic nationalism, opposition to net-zero policies, and resistance to progressive policies on race and gender.

The result was also a bruising one for the establishment Liberal Party, which finished a distant third with just 17 percent of the primary vote.

Liberal frontbencher Jonno Duniam conceded the party had suffered a bad result.

“That is not a good outcome for my party, and it’s one that we need to look hard at and rectify,” Duniam said.

The result gives One Nation a notable foothold in Western Australia and bolsters its hopes of taking further seats in the future.

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\"Crowd — One Nation leader Pauline Hanson sees her movement surhing – One Nation Party Website

One nation continues to surge, to the dismay of PM Anthony Albanese Globalist forces.

The Australian populists and anti-Globalists from the One Nation party are experiencing pretty much the same as similar political forces in Europe: to begin with, they are smeared by the whole of the MSM as ‘far-right’ – and besides, they are surging, having become the most popular party in the country.

Today, the One Nation party has turned its high poll numbers into an electoral victory, securing its first lower-house seat in the state parliament of Western Australia.

To do that, they defeated the ruling Globalists from the Labor Party to win a special election.

One Nation is celebrating a historic by-election victory that sent shockwaves through Australian politics. The party’s first-ever seat in WA.pic.twitter.com/IDV9KRsXb4
— 7NEWS Sydney (@7NewsSydney)August 30, 2026

Reutersreported:

“Gym owner Luke Herdegen scored One Nation’s first lower house seat in the Western Australia parliament, an official tally showed on Sunday, taking a seat in the statecapital Perth that had been held by Labor for decades.

One Nation,led by Senator Pauline Hanson, overtook Labor in a national opinion pollfor the first time in June, a month after winning its first elected seatin the federal House of Representatives.”

One Nation has taken a seat where the Liberals have never been able to challenge Labor.
We are the only party that can take the fight to Anthony Albanese where the Liberal Party never could.
Because Australians are looking for someone who will actually stand up for them.
We’re…
— Pauline Hanson $\"🇦🇺\"$ (@PaulineHansonOz)August 29, 2026

One Nation has claimed victory in the previously safe Labor seat of Secret Harbour in Western Australia, in a by-election widely seen as a referendum on mass immigration and Pauline Hanson’s popularity.https://t.co/KrATV8GX1q
— N News (@NoticerNews)August 29, 2026

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Bloombergreported:

“The election was watched as an indicator of One Nation’s strength after the party surged in the polls over the past year. With 75% of votes counted, One Nation’s Luke Herdegen held 57% while the candidate for the ruling Labor Party took 43%, according to the state electoral commission late Saturday in state capital Perth. Broadcaster ABC called the byelection for Herdegen.

[…] Labor holds an overwhelming majority in the state parliament so the election won’t affect its ability to govern, but it will be seen as a sign that One Nation has been able to capitalize on its surge in the polls over the last year and translate that into election wins.

[…] ‘There are no safe Labor seats in this state or in this country any more’, Herdegen told celebrating supporters, in comments broadcast by ABC. ‘None of these MPs are safe from the orange tsunami’.”

Anthony Albanese says Australians “owe it to history” to defeat One Nation in a blistering attack. Full story:https://t.co/cEbMQJNqZZ pic.twitter.com/0rcKwm1a7a
— news.com.au (@newscomauHQ)August 30, 2026

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