Hanson: WA One Nation is a united team

Pauline Hanson says her WA One Nation team is united now that dissidents who had their own agenda have been ousted.

Pauline Hanson has high hopes of getting five One Nation MPs into the West Australian parliament after Saturday's election.

Among the scalps One Nation expects to claim include the Pilbara seat of Nationals leader Brendon Grylls and Kalgoorlie, plus three upper house seats.

But the campaign to break back into the WA parliament has been dogged by internal criticism of the preference swap deal with the Liberals, and claims of disunity and ageism.

The Queensland senator, who has spent the past week campaigning in WA, has fended off those claims.

Five candidates have either quit or been dumped, including Margaret Dodd, the mother of murdered teenager Hayley Dodd.

Ms Dodd quit the party on Friday, although she will still appear as a One Nation candidate on the ballot paper.

"I am of the opinion that this party is more adherent to a dictatorship than an democratic organisation and lacks principles," Ms Dodd, who had been vocal critic of the party over recent days, said in a statement.

A furious Senator Hanson had disowned Ms Dodd earlier on Friday.

"She had her own agenda. She was using my name to hopefully get into parliament," Senator Hanson told the Nine Network.

"She's not a team player. I'd rather see the back end of her to tell the truth. I don't want her there."

Senator Hanson was confident her team is now united, and said there would be no more disunity.

"There won't because those people have gone," she said

"I believe the candidates we have now are very loyal.

"We have to have a strong team on the floor of parliament because it's going to be a tough job."

One Nation WA leader Colin Tincknell has accused the media of "fake news" and beating up stories about the party imploding.

"Tomorrow is going to be a big day for WA ... while the media hasn't been on our side, it's incredible how much support we have through social media," he said in a Facebook post.

"We can't be fooled by what we see on TV, because social media means you have a voice, you can do you research and find out the full story."

One Nation has been polling around about nine per cent of the primary vote in opinion polls.


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