Pauline Hanson has given optimistic predictions of her party's chances when results from Saturday's Western Australian election are tallied, however, but is "thrilled” at the result.
A defiant Senator Hanson claimed her party will win at least three upper house seats but “possibly up to five”, but the results would suggest otherwise.
The WA Electoral Commission is still counting the votes but One Nation has reached a quota in the Mining and Pastoral Region, and looks likely to win another two seats.
“To get this kind of result I think it's fantastic, I'm really thrilled about it,” Senator Hanson told Channel Seven.
“We've actually pulled across the board about 9.1 per cent of the votes, that's fantastic result.”
WATCH: Pauline Hanson talks about the WA election result
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation polled a little more than 8 per cent of the vote in the seats it ran candidates, but across the board in the lower house it received only 4.7 per cent of the vote.
The One Nation leader blamed the media for “not letting you know” the real results of the weekend’s election result.
According to the ABC’s election predictor, the nearly 10 per cent swing to the Labor Party will see it claim 40 seats, the Liberals 11 and the National Party five.
Senator Hanson blamed Labor for scaring her voters by attacking One Nation’s controversial preference deal with Colin Barnett's Liberals.
“The scare campaign put out by the Labor party actually worked,” she said.
“The Labor voters that wanted to vote for us they said, 'oh no we want Colin Barnett gone,’ it was all about Colin Barnett, they wanted him gone.”
One Nation’s primary vote across Western Australia was expected to be as high as 13 per cent six weeks ago, according to Newspoll, but dove to 8 per cent a week out from the state election.
Speaking to 2GB, federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said both the Liberal Party and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation “got a message on the weekend”.
“She is going to get judged on her policies and she is going to get judged on her candidates,” he said.
“Honestly, if people think that’s the reason that the Western Australian government lost the election on the weekend, I think they’re kidding themselves.”
