Senior MPs have delivered their final election pitches to voters in Western Australia – which could again prove a battleground that determines whether the Coalition can stage an against-the-odds comeback, or whether Labor is returned to government in minority or majority form.

Speaking while travelling between booths in his marginal electorate of Canning, opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie said Labor had forgotten about outer suburban and regional Australians.

“We’re the ones who have to make sense of his uncontrolled migration. We’re the ones who have to deal with the housing crisis, the lack of infrastructure, the lack of services, the lack of healthcare, and we need change,” he said.

But standing alongside WA Premier Roger Cook at Wellard Primary School in her seat of Brand, south of Perth, Resources Minister Madeleine King said the choice between Labor and the Coalition was clear.

“A choice between the Albanese Labor government who wants to build Australia’s future, or Peter Dutton’s volatile Liberal Party and National Coalition that will simply cut and cut and cut,” she said.

Read more about the battle for WA here.