The repercussions of the Liberal Party's hefty loss in Western Australia will rumble on through the ranks of the federal coalition even though the prime minister insists the result was "overwhelmingly" down to state issues.
WA's new Labor Premier Mark McGowan trounced Colin Barnett's two-term Liberal government on Saturday, claiming as many as 41 MPs in the 59-seat parliament.
Counting resumed on Monday.
Malcolm Turnbull has refused to rule out doing preference pacts with One Nation in the future despite the WA deal failing to lift the Liberals performance, saying it is a decision for the different divisions of the party to make.
Finance Minister and WA senator Mathias Cormann was still comfortable with the decision that preferenced One Nation over the Nationals.
Others in the coalition were not so happy, including Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce who has called the deal a "mistake".
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has urged Mr Turnbull to rule out once-and-for-all his government doing any further deals with One Nation, like former Liberal prime minister John Howard did in the late 1990s.
