PIZZAS by the hundreds were ordered, the balloons were standing proudly to attention, and the mood at the Sea View Golf Club in Colin Barnett's heartland of Cottesloe was a combination of New Year's Eve and a raucous 70th birthday party.
With the polls predicting a landslide, and the analysts saying similar within minutes after the polling booths closed, any Liberal nerves that may have existed on the morning of March 9 had dissipated long before the sun had set over the Indian Ocean.
The blue waves lapping against the nearby Cottesloe beach were being mirrored on the tally boards, as the seat of Churchlands fell first and many more followed.
Mr Barnett's advisors, who had spent the first weeks of the campaign playing catch-up to Mark McGowan's Metronet express, had the tired, relieved looks of those that would still have a job on Monday morning.
And when the numbers came through that there was an eight per cent swing toward Liberal enfant terrible Troy Buswell, who had become the target of Labor's bile in the final days of the campaign, the party really got started.
Mr Barnett had begun the day casting his vote next to a fellow constituent wearing his budgie smugglers.
And such was the astonishing tide of votes flowing the way of the Liberals, that the sight of a few of the more elderly supporters donning similar apparel running across the 18th green would not have been out of the question.
Balcatta, Kimberley, and then the seat of the Midland - parliamentary home of former Labor Police Minister Michelle Roberts - all swung violently, and the gasps of astonishment from the staunchest of Liberal supporters told the story.
Not only was Colin Barnett going to win, he was going to annihilate Labor, and secure himself a mandate to power ahead with his big vision for WA, while also sending a significant message to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and a major boost to her September opponent Tony Abbott.
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