election, voting, meh
Aug. 24th, 2010 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccSo the best tweet of the campaign appears to be "Australia has spoken. It said 'meh'."
I have to say the post-election scrabbling has been by far the most entertaining part of the campaign for me. Although I will add that I am in complete disagreement with Oakeshott's current proposal - Dear. God. No. I just cannot see that working by any stretch of the imagination.
I just looked up Senate results for my local polling place and the above-the-line results are entertaining to say the least. No one voted for any of the Independents, grouped or ungrouped. The Climate Sceptics, Socialist Alliance, Building Australia and Citizens Electoral Council got 1 vote each. Only 2 people voted for the Carers Alliance and 2 for One Nation, 3 for the Secular Party, 3 for the Christian Democratic Party (nicely cancelling each other out there, heh), 3 for the Australian Democrats (*sigh* - Come back Natasha, please!!), 4 for the Socialist Equality Party (who were also first on the ballot, so possibly aided by donkey voting - or not, given their high tally), 10 people liked Shooters and Fishers (it's the zombie attack thing - or the fact they had two, clear-cut issues), 11 wanted Family First, 12 the Liberal Democrats, 23 the Democratic Labor Party (seriously, every single election I am surprised that these guys still exist. I mean, where the hell are they getting the fresh blood from? Should I be concerned that they are in fact the zombie party?) and 26 the Australian Sex Party. (I do wonder how many of the 26 really just read the name and went "more sex? Hell yeah!" I am suspicious that Dean may well have been among them, heh.)
Then we get down to the three main Senate Parties. 149 The Greens (16.26%); 239 Liberal/Nationals (27.36%) and 379 Labor (44.02%). Which is actually more of a spread than I was expecting given it's a safe Labor seat at both federal and state level.
6.51% of Senate votes were informal at that polling place and represented 0.97% of the votes in the electorate. (Incidentally the venue around the corner from our house that we weren't aware was a polling place actually had slightly more people rock up there - 1.09% of the electorate in fact. Obviously some people read the local paper and the electoral information more closely than I do.)
For the house the polling place votes went pretty much as expected - Labor romping it in with 55.5%, followed by the Liberals (28.39%), Greens (12.51%), Family First (2.67%) and Secular Party (0.93%); 6.3% informal. On two party-preferred that ended up as 67.32% to Labor; 32.68% to Liberal. I did say it was a safe Labor seat - although the biggest swing was to the Greens.
I'm not sure what's going to happen from here on in. I don't think anyone is. Minority government can work - it did in Victoria for a full term after the 1999 election - but it does depend a lot on the goodwill of the independents and how much both sides are willing to negotiate. So yeah, we'll see.
I just hope it doesn't come to another election, at least for a year or so.
I have to say the post-election scrabbling has been by far the most entertaining part of the campaign for me. Although I will add that I am in complete disagreement with Oakeshott's current proposal - Dear. God. No. I just cannot see that working by any stretch of the imagination.
I just looked up Senate results for my local polling place and the above-the-line results are entertaining to say the least. No one voted for any of the Independents, grouped or ungrouped. The Climate Sceptics, Socialist Alliance, Building Australia and Citizens Electoral Council got 1 vote each. Only 2 people voted for the Carers Alliance and 2 for One Nation, 3 for the Secular Party, 3 for the Christian Democratic Party (nicely cancelling each other out there, heh), 3 for the Australian Democrats (*sigh* - Come back Natasha, please!!), 4 for the Socialist Equality Party (who were also first on the ballot, so possibly aided by donkey voting - or not, given their high tally), 10 people liked Shooters and Fishers (it's the zombie attack thing - or the fact they had two, clear-cut issues), 11 wanted Family First, 12 the Liberal Democrats, 23 the Democratic Labor Party (seriously, every single election I am surprised that these guys still exist. I mean, where the hell are they getting the fresh blood from? Should I be concerned that they are in fact the zombie party?) and 26 the Australian Sex Party. (I do wonder how many of the 26 really just read the name and went "more sex? Hell yeah!" I am suspicious that Dean may well have been among them, heh.)
Then we get down to the three main Senate Parties. 149 The Greens (16.26%); 239 Liberal/Nationals (27.36%) and 379 Labor (44.02%). Which is actually more of a spread than I was expecting given it's a safe Labor seat at both federal and state level.
6.51% of Senate votes were informal at that polling place and represented 0.97% of the votes in the electorate. (Incidentally the venue around the corner from our house that we weren't aware was a polling place actually had slightly more people rock up there - 1.09% of the electorate in fact. Obviously some people read the local paper and the electoral information more closely than I do.)
For the house the polling place votes went pretty much as expected - Labor romping it in with 55.5%, followed by the Liberals (28.39%), Greens (12.51%), Family First (2.67%) and Secular Party (0.93%); 6.3% informal. On two party-preferred that ended up as 67.32% to Labor; 32.68% to Liberal. I did say it was a safe Labor seat - although the biggest swing was to the Greens.
I'm not sure what's going to happen from here on in. I don't think anyone is. Minority government can work - it did in Victoria for a full term after the 1999 election - but it does depend a lot on the goodwill of the independents and how much both sides are willing to negotiate. So yeah, we'll see.
I just hope it doesn't come to another election, at least for a year or so.
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Date: 2010-08-24 01:10 am (UTC)(yeah, I know it wouldn't work, but I like the idea of cherry-picking one's favourite MPs from all sides of parliament. The catch, of course, is that I'm not the one doing the cherry-picking)
Still living in hope that Turnbull will cross the floor...
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Date: 2010-08-24 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-24 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-24 04:48 am (UTC)House and Senate results links are in the top right hand corner, you can then go through links to electorates, polling places... it's a great time-waster if you have some to spare!