WA state election 2025 LIVE: Labor wins historic third term and Roger Cook remains premier of WA

Premier Roger Cook has begin his victory speech with a compliment to Libby Mettam, who he had spoken to a short time earlier.

“[Mettam] offered her congratulations to our WA Labor team for being elected to form a new government and wished us well,” he said.

“I congratulated Libby on the tireless work she put into this campaign on the campaign trail.

“And, look, she’s a decent person who, like most of us who go into public life, does it for the right reasons.”

Meanwhile, Liberal leader Libby Mettam has officially arrived at her party’s gathering in Cottesloe, taking to the stage to confirm she had called premier Roger Cook to congratulate him on what she conceded was another emphatic win for the WA Labor Party.

While admitting the result was not what she and her team had hoped and worked for, Mettam vowed to take lessons from this evening’s result.

“Is this what we have been working for? Absolutely not,” she said.

“The rebuild of the WA Liberal Party continues.”

The Member for Vasse branded the night one of reflection, but declined to be drawn on what she believed went wrong for the campaign or whether she would remain the party’s leader.

“I had given it my all,” she told the press.