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+0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-12-10T09:40:01.798+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#brunswick</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#melbourne</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#northcote</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#prahran</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#richmond</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#vicvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Melbourne</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Prahran</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Victoria Votes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Vicvotes</category><title>#VicVotes: Preference splits in the Greens V Labor seats + Prahran</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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I thought it would be interesting to take a look the preference splits in the seats that ended up as a 2PP contest between the Greens and someone else. In the seats that were GNS v ALP the Liberal Party recommended to their voters to place the Greens last while in Prahran (GNS v LIB) the Labor Party recommended putting the Greens above the Libs. The table below shows the how the Liberal preferences split in Melbourne, Brunswick, Richmond and Northcote and how the Labor preferences split in Prahran.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;G = Greens, L = Labor for all seats except Prahran where it means Liberal&lt;br /&gt;The % flow is only from Lib (or Lab for Prahran) and not all candidates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;Some of the votes from the Lib (or Lab) candidate will have come from other parties but not so many that it would make a huge difference to the numbers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;*Northcote &amp;amp; Richmond &amp;nbsp;number not available yet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;Seat&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;G primary %&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;L primary %&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;% flow to G&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;% Flow to L&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;G 2PP&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;Melbourne&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;41.44&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;29.27&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;32.28&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;67.72&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;52.44&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;Brunswick&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;39.65&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;37.95&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;29.39&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;70.61&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;47.78&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;Northcote&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;36.21&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;41.01&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;TBA&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;TBA&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;43.91&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;Richmond&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;31.41&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;33.30&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;TBA&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;TBA&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;48.14&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;Prahran&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;24.76&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;44.83&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;87.02&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;12.98&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;50.35&lt;/td&gt;
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This table will be updated as Richmond and Northcote figures are available and I may add another table with different seats or a new post with other interesting preference flows if the demand is there. Let me know by leaving a comment below or sending me a message on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/australiavotes&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This table will be updated with the Senate representation totals as they become official&lt;br /&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Party&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;New&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Continuing&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Predicted Total&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
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  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Coalition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: lime;&quot;&gt;Greens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: lime;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: lime;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: lime;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: lime;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: orange;&quot;&gt;Palmer United&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: orange;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: orange;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: orange;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: orange;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #999999;&quot;&gt;Others&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #999999;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #999999;&quot;&gt;1 (DLP)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #999999;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #999999;&quot;&gt;5#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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# DLP, Motoring Enthusiasts, Family First, Nick Xenophon, Liberal Democrats&lt;br /&gt;
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Official results include:&lt;br /&gt;
Tasmania - 2 Lib, 2 Lab, 1 Grn, 1 PUP&lt;br /&gt;
South Australia - 2 Lib, 1 Lab, 1 Grn,1 FF, Xenophon&lt;br /&gt;
Victoria - 2 Lib, 2 Lab, 1 Grn, 1 AMEP&lt;br /&gt;
NSW - 2 Lib, 2 Lab, 1 Nat, 1 LDP&lt;br /&gt;
QLD - 3 LNP, 2 Lab, 1 PUP&lt;br /&gt;
WA - 3 Lib, 2 Lab, 1 PUP&lt;br /&gt;
ACT - 1 Lib, 1 Lab&lt;br /&gt;
NT - 1 Lib, 1 Lab&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2013/10/senate-representation-ausvotes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-7514613111311011173</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-10-01T15:49:10.012+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#ausvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#ausvotes2013</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#diaz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">angry anderson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">greenway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">isabelle white</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jacqueline donaldson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jaymes diaz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jess diaz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">matt adamson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nick tyrell</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">venus priest</category><title>How do the Libs solve a problem like Greenway?</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
A good result overall for the Coalition should not mask the problem the party has in appealing to voters in Western Sydney.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Greenway is a seat the Liberal party had been targeting and should have been one of the first seats in the country marked down as a Coalition gain but history will record a swing to Labor. This is the 2nd election in a row the Liberal Party has failed to win Greenway and make sweeping inroads in Western Sydney. The party needs to look at it&#39;s preselection process in the area, they&#39;ve been running dud candidates for a long time now. It never used to matter too much because the whole of Western Sydney was seen as Labor heartland but as Lindsay, state election results in the area and even Blacktown Council (now with a Liberal Party mayor for the first time ever) show, people in Wetsern Sydney will vote for the Liberal Party if you give them a good reason to. What this post is attempting to do is list potential candidates for Greenway and/or Chifley in the future (a fantasy football for political tragics), their strengths and weaknesses and their likelihood of being preselected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3FBR0FsGcu0/UkJFxQPZrMI/AAAAAAAAApg/ZK4RVb6L8c8/s1600/clr_donaldson.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3FBR0FsGcu0/UkJFxQPZrMI/AAAAAAAAApg/ZK4RVb6L8c8/s200/clr_donaldson.jpg&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jacqueline Donaldson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Jacqueline is a 2nd term councillor on Blacktown Council..&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pros:&lt;/b&gt; Has a strong media profile in the area and would pick up votes on name recognition alone. Gets on well with the Greens in the area due to joint environmental and fair trade campaigns. Could pick up votes from progressives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Cons&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;: Could be too progressive for the Liberals in the area, Has had to defend the councils extremely controversial decision to close Mt Druitt Pools, her sons disastrous 2010 campaign for the seat of Chifley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chance of preselection&lt;/b&gt;: Low - She has control of some numbers but has said she doesn&#39;t want to run federally. Would be a shoo-in for Chifley preslection if she wanted it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-umYGjwJU2nY/UkJFw88P4yI/AAAAAAAAApM/8br2M0t5QKg/s1600/Liberal-Councillor-Atty-Jess-Diaz-of-Blacktown-City-Council.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-umYGjwJU2nY/UkJFw88P4yI/AAAAAAAAApM/8br2M0t5QKg/s200/Liberal-Councillor-Atty-Jess-Diaz-of-Blacktown-City-Council.jpg&quot; width=&quot;133&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jess Diaz&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Jess is a Liberal on Blacktown Council and migration agent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pros&lt;/b&gt;: Has a strong name recognition, controls the numbers for Greenway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cons&lt;/b&gt;: His son Jaymes, has ran for the Liberals in 2007 in Chifley and while not a disastrous campaign it didn&#39;t exactly set the world on fire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chance of preselection&lt;/b&gt;: Low - His if he wants it but I doubt he does&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CyRXFf2Gd3I/UkJFw8S0EiI/AAAAAAAAApU/9o75DFcepwo/s1600/6a012876778d82970c0120a85ddd5e970b-800wi.gif&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CyRXFf2Gd3I/UkJFw8S0EiI/AAAAAAAAApU/9o75DFcepwo/s1600/6a012876778d82970c0120a85ddd5e970b-800wi.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Nick Tyrrell&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Nick is a former Liberal Councillor on Blacktown Council&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Pros&lt;/b&gt;: Young, smart, gets on well with people from all sides of politics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Cons&lt;/b&gt;: Lost preselection for the state seat of Riverstone and wasn&#39;t too happy about it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Chance of preselection&lt;/b&gt;: Low&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HmAMQREf5Mk/UkJFxps7PLI/AAAAAAAAApk/Vqov_xAsgLI/s1600/election-2010-venus-priest.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HmAMQREf5Mk/UkJFxps7PLI/AAAAAAAAApk/Vqov_xAsgLI/s1600/election-2010-venus-priest.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Venus Priest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Venus is a small business owner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pros&lt;/b&gt;: Strong ties to the business community and Filipino community. Managed a 15.8% primary and 18.6% 2PP &amp;nbsp;swing as the Liberal candidate for Mt Druitt in 2011 and 5.4% primary and 7.35% 2PP swing as Liberal candidate for Chifley in 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cons:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Has already run and lost twice.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chance of preslection&lt;/b&gt;: High - Well liked in the party and by the public. Does she want to run again though?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w-WikC31zRE/UkJFw6jKXnI/AAAAAAAAApI/rb1GLECPACM/s1600/Isabelle-White-Chifley-150x150.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w-WikC31zRE/UkJFw6jKXnI/AAAAAAAAApI/rb1GLECPACM/s1600/Isabelle-White-Chifley-150x150.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Isabelle White&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Liberal Councillor on Blacktown Council&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pros&lt;/b&gt;: Young, managed an almost 2% primary vote increase for the Liberals in Chifley in the 2013 Federal Election&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cons&lt;/b&gt;: Inexperienced, had a constant minder with her who looked like he was directing her every movement, (even going so far as to tell her not to put her hand out to give someone a handshake if they had only grabbed an ALP how-to-vote when the media was there) Has had to defend unpopular council polices like the clousre of Mt Druitt Pool and removing pensior rebates on land rates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Chance of preselection&lt;/b&gt;: High&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C7ihBYvLbeE/UkJElPauWyI/AAAAAAAAAo8/c0RG7MoMTBY/s1600/Rose_Tattoo_-_Angry_Anderson.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C7ihBYvLbeE/UkJElPauWyI/AAAAAAAAAo8/c0RG7MoMTBY/s200/Rose_Tattoo_-_Angry_Anderson.jpg&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Angry Anderson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Rock star&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pros&lt;/b&gt;: Massive public profile. Can generate media anywhere. Is a bit like Pauline Hanson in people think he &quot;says it like it is&quot; Tony Abbott&#39;s preferred candidate for Greenway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cons&lt;/b&gt;: Managed just 10.7% for the Nationals in Throsby at the 2013 election, although that was a 4% increase. May look like he&#39;s seat shopping.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chance of preselection&lt;/b&gt;: Mid. Would be a shoo-in if Abbott got his way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DbGM4BsFvjc/UkJEM6Rf4aI/AAAAAAAAAo0/QuSbEEzM_o8/s1600/Matt-Adamson-SENATE-200x249.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DbGM4BsFvjc/UkJEM6Rf4aI/AAAAAAAAAo0/QuSbEEzM_o8/s200/Matt-Adamson-SENATE-200x249.jpg&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Matt Adamson&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;Former professional rugby league star.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pros&lt;/b&gt;: Big public profile. Western Sydney is rugby league heartland. Another Abbott pick for Greenway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cons&lt;/b&gt;: Ran for the Palmer United Party as their lead NSW Senate candidate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chance of preselection&lt;/b&gt;: Very low. Would have to switch parties.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222;&quot;&gt;For the Liberal party&#39;s sake let&#39;s hope there&#39;s more talent coming through. If I had to pick out of this lot I&#39;d go with Venus Priest and Jacqueline Donaldson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-do-libs-solve-problem-like-greenway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3FBR0FsGcu0/UkJFxQPZrMI/AAAAAAAAApg/ZK4RVb6L8c8/s72-c/clr_donaldson.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-2780838909715045235</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-10-01T15:46:59.832+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#ausvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#ausvotes2013</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#diaz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">australian election 2013</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">australian labor party</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">australian liberal party</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">diaz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">greenway</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jaymes diaz</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">michelle rowland</category><title>Why the Diaz campaign was always going to be a disaster</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Unless you&#39;ve been living in a cave for the past few months you have had heard of Jaymes Diaz and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQPXXHUilU&quot;&gt;*that* interview&lt;/a&gt;. It was a gaffe of the highest magnitude and the publicity surrounding it guaranteed his loss in the most marginal seat in NSW - Greenway. Greenway is a seat the Liberal party has been targeting and should have been one of the first seats in the country marked down as a Coalition gain but history will record a 2.32% swing TO Labor and Diaz will go down as a 2-time failed candidate in a seat he should have won.&lt;br /&gt;
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Yes, Diaz has now lost Greenway twice, his campaign in 2010 was almost as invisible as his campaign this year, he didn&#39;t attend candidate forums, he was hardly at pre-poll meeting voters, he didn&#39;t go to community group events. His failure in 2010 was due to being invisible to voters, this is because he was not very confident at public speaking. In fact when I met him in 2010 and again this year both times he didn&#39;t make eye contact and one of his minders did the talking. This time, after that gaffe went viral Diaz went into hiding and wouldn&#39;t even return calls or respond to emails from the local NewsCorp paper - The Blacktown Advocate. In fact, his gaffe was so worrying to head office they banned almost all Sydney candidates from speaking to media and attending community forums. Without the scrutiny from the voters, how does the party expect an elected member to stand up to the scrutiny of Parliament and the Canberra Press Gallery? In the end the only Liberal candidate to pick up a seat was one of the only ones who actually attended a community forum and put themselves in front of the voters to be scrutinised - Fiona Scott in Lindsay. It&#39;s probably a good thing for the Liberal Party that they didn&#39;t pick up more seats in Western Sydney having not known how some of these candidates perform under pressure.&lt;br /&gt;
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The signs were there for the Liberal Party about Diaz being a dud candidate but because his father, Liberal Councillor on Blacktown Council, Jess Diaz controls the numbers in the area he was preselected again. If the Liberal Party wanted to win Greenway they needed a different candidate. They were told this from a sources (including me privately to a few Liberal members) and while Tony Abbott didn&#39;t want Diaz as the candidate (he approached both Angry Anderson who ended up running for The Nationals in Throsby and increased their primary vote almost 5% and Matthew Adamson who ended up as the lead Palmer United Party Senate candidate), in the end Jess Diaz made sure his son got the nomination.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Liberals in Blacktown have a history of preselecting dud candidates in the 2 Blacktown seats. Diaz in Greenway in 2013 and 2010, David Barker (son of Liberal councillor Jacqueline Donaldson) in 2010 who the party was forced to disendorse due to&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/revealed-liberal-candidate-david-barkers-anti-muslim-campaign/story-fn5taogy-1225896534232&quot;&gt; anti-Islamic posts on his Facebook page&lt;/a&gt;. , Jess Diaz himself in Chifley in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Liberal Party took control of Blacktown Council for the first time ever after elections in 2012 and came close to winning the seat of Blacktown at the 2011 state election. They should have realised by now that there are a lot of affluent people in the area and most of the Labor voters are socially conservative. If they can get their act together and start preselecting decent candidates they might be able turn the once Labor stronghold of Blacktown and surrounding suburbs Liberal and if they can tap more into the social conservatism while not scaring people about their rights at work they might just even be able to turn Mt Druitt marginal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-diaz-campaign-was-always-going-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-6239098123882286120</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-10-02T14:48:55.072+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">australian electoral system</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">australian senate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">david leyonhjelm</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">glenn druery</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw senate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">queensland senate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ricky muir</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sa senate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">scott ludlam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tasmanian senate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">victorian senate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wa senate</category><title>Making a demockeracy of the Senate</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
As has been noted by more than a few people, our senate voting system is in urgent need of repair. A system that allows a person to be elected to represent a state of a few million people while gaining just 0.5% or 13,002 first preference votes (Ricky Muir, Motoring Enthusiasts Party - Victoria) or worse yet 0.22% or just 2,030 votes (Wayne Drupolich, Australian Sports Party - WA) is a shambles. These results have come about due to Glenn Druery arranging preference swaps for a suite of different parties. What he has done is not illegal and both major parties have been warned about something like this happening since at least 1995.&lt;br /&gt;
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The simplest way to reform the senate and encourage results that closer reflect the will of &amp;nbsp;the people is to make the threshold for election the same as the threshold for public funding - 4% of the primary vote. Although this method goes against the spirit of the Single Transferable Vote .&lt;br /&gt;
The method that seems to be gaining the most traction is the one that has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-11/green-hand-the-power-of-preferences-back-to-the-people/4951020&quot;&gt;advocated by Antony Green&lt;/a&gt; and The Greens for a long time - Optional Above The Line preferencing like that used for the Upper House in NSW state elections. This system will allow voters to determine their own preferences instead of putting people&#39;s votes in the hands of backroom dealers. Along with this method allowing voters wanting to vote &#39;Below The Line&#39; to only number as many boxes as there are candidates to elect (normally 6 but 12 in a double dissolution election) will give plenty of power back to voters and lower the informal vote rate.&lt;br /&gt;
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To stop the situation we&#39;ve seen in NSW this time where David Leyonhjelm from the LiberalDemocrats got a massive primary vote compared the LDP normal vote due to being in column &#39;A&#39; and voters confusing them for the Liberal Party we could also introduce &#39;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robson_Rotation&quot;&gt;Robson Rotation&lt;/a&gt;&#39; where the order on the ballot is randomised so each candidate (or party) shows up in each column the same number of times. Speaking of David, he is the registered officer for at least 2 parties, the LDP and The Outdoor Recreation Party (Stop The Greens). He was the lead LDP senate candidate for NSW this time, the ORP candidate for the Penrith by-election in 2011 and the LDP candidate for Bennelong at the 2007 Federal Election (where he got 0.1%) This is another situation that needs to be brought under control. How can one person be involved in at least 2 (though probably more parties) Which party&#39;s policies will guide him in the senate?&lt;br /&gt;
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My preferred method of electoral reform is a little controversial, abolish the Senate (this will require a referendum that will only pass with bi-partisan support) and to introduce &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_member_proportional&quot;&gt;Mixed-Member-Proportional &lt;/a&gt;(like that used in NZ) voting to the lower house. If we have a truly proportional lower house we can do away with the senate and probably even preferential voting but if we are to keep the Senate (and preferential voting) we MUST make sure voters have control over where their vote goes if their first choice candidate isn&#39;t elected.&lt;br /&gt;
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One last thing, while we&#39;re reforming the electoral system, let&#39;s ban the use of how-to-vote cards supplied by parties. We can either use the South Australia system and display a copy of each one in each booth or use MMP voting with no preferential voting. That way people only need to tick/cross 1 box and we won&#39;t need How To Vote cards.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2013/09/making-demockeracy-of-senate.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-3669421114690785515</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-09-30T11:11:17.421+10:00</atom:updated><title>Don&#39;t Stop The Votes!</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
While for most, the election (and the watching of the results) was done and dusted on Saturday night, for political tragics and statistics nerds like myself the results from election night are only the beginning. It&#39;s now been nearly a week since election day and with counting still going in every seat a few people (myself included) are keeping an eye on the results in the seats that are still too close to call and tweeting numbers every time there&#39;s an update.
The two seats with the most interest on Twitter are Indi - currently being led by Independent Cathy McGowan over the Liberal&#39;s Sophie Mirabella, former&amp;nbsp;Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research - and Fairfax,&amp;nbsp; where Mining Magnate Clive Palmer is leading the LNP&#39;s Ted O&#39;Brien.

Indi is a fascinating example of how a likeable candidate against an unpopular sitting member can attract attention from across the country. The hashtag #indivotes was among the top trending topics in Australia for a few days and will trend again once it becomes obvious who will win. The interest in Fairfax is obvious: Clive Palmer is famous and is a colourful character. Love him or hate him people will always talk about him.
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There are other close seats that aren&#39;t attracting as much attention. All are Labor held and all but one look like they will fall to the Coalition: Capricornia, Eden-Monaro, McEwen and Parramatta.&amp;nbsp;
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Thanks to the type of data the AEC publishes we can attempt to &quot;predict&quot; who will win a close seat before all the votes are counted by assuming the two candidate-preffered figure for a certain type of vote will hold, and using maths to work out the vote difference after all those votes are counted.

This method is for those of us who don&#39;t have a computer program we can feed the raw data into and have a result calculated for us. &amp;nbsp;For example, in Capricornia the AEC shows us that of the 4,981 postal votes counted so far 2.85% were informal and of the formal votes the LNP is winning the 2PP 59.66%-40.34%. If we assume this trend holds for the remaining 5,000 or so postal votes and do the maths with the figures for absentee votes we can come up with a rough estimate of the winning margin.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE - Original table moved to under updated table.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 13/09&lt;/b&gt;: Slight alterations in the 2CP trends.&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Fairfax&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;updated from LNP by 237 to LNP by 22&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 13/09&lt;/b&gt;: 2PP&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Parramatta&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;absentees trend hasn&#39;t held (didn&#39;t think it would)&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;changed from LIB by 47 to ALP by 530)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 14/09&lt;/b&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;McEwen&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;added&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 14/09:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Indi&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;added&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 15/09&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;b&gt;New Table, with updated figures &lt;/b&gt;(for comparison to see how the prediction changes as the current margin and trends change)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 16/09&lt;/b&gt;: All seats updated - &lt;b&gt;Capricornia&lt;/b&gt; removed (prediction of LNP by 1,167), replaced by &lt;b&gt;Barton&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 17/09:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Final predicted &lt;b&gt;Indi&lt;/b&gt; margin is 363 unless more postals are received or any of the provisionals are accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;UPDATE 22/09:&lt;/b&gt; Table changed to Predicted Margin and Actual Margin. &lt;b&gt;Fairfax&lt;/b&gt; is final result, other seats still have a handful of votes to process.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; bordercolor=&quot;#000000&quot; cellpadding=&quot;3&quot; cellspacing=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Seat&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Predicted Margin&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Actual Margin&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Fairfax&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;PUP by 66&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;background-color: orange;&quot;&gt;PUP by 33&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Parramatta&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ALP by 1,039&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ALP by 917&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Barton&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LIB by 703&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;LIB by 493&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Eden-Monaro&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LIB by 1,057&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;LIB by 1,085&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;McEwen&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ALP by 487&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ALP by 316&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Indi&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;IND by 363&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #666666;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;IND by 420&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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In the table below I&#39;ve done just this for the seats I&#39;ve mentioned. Let&#39;s see how close we get to the actual winning margin using this method.
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&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; bordercolor=&quot;#000000&quot; cellpadding=&quot;3&quot; cellspacing=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Seat&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Current Margin&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Predicted Margin&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Fairfax&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;PUP by 1,132&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LNP by 22&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Parramatta&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ALP by 482&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ALP by 530&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Capricornia&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LNP by 624&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LNP by 1241&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Eden-Monaro&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LIB by 864&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LIB by 465&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;McEwen&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;LIb by 158&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;ALP by 24&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Indi&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;IND by 896&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;IND by 819&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
Predicted margin is calculated using the figures of votes left to count provided by the AEC (votes received so far) and does not include provisional votes but will once enough are counted.&lt;br /&gt;
These figures will have a slight margin of error due to more votes not being received by the AEC in time, changes in the 2CP for a certain vote type and some votes being rejected instead of added into the count. For updates as the count continues see my twitter feed -&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/australiavotes&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #006ec5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@Australiavotes&lt;/a&gt;.
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This post also available on SBSNews &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/13/comment-dont-stop-votes&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;
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</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2013/09/dont-stop-votes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-3752409434488976517</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-08-16T11:51:42.168+10:00</atom:updated><title>Abbott and Morrison find a deeper part of the barrel to scrape.</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison today announced a new draconian and cruel asylum seeker policy. Rudd&#39;s leap to the right on this issue has allowed Abbott and Morrison to go even further to the right than they would originally have. Read the following from the SMH and it&#39;s painfully clear it&#39;s not about &quot;saving people from drowning at sea&quot; and all about using desperate people fleeing for their lives for cheap political points,&lt;br /&gt;
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The Coalition has ramped up its hardline stance on refugees, announcing on Friday that almost 32,000 asylum seekers who have already arrived in Australia by boat will never get permanent settlement as well as stripping them of the right to appeal to the courts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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The Coalition would also introduce indefinite work-for-the-dole obligations for those found to be refugees.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &#39;&#39;The essential point is, this is is our country and we determine who comes here,&#39;&#39; Mr Abbott said.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
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As part of the toughened policy, a Coalition government will scrap the right of asylum seekers to appeal to the courts, which in the March quarter brought the number of asylum seekers who were granted refugee status from 65.3 per cent to more than 90 per cent.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said the Coalition would return to a &#39;&#39;non-statutory&#39;&#39; process, in which a single caseworker would decide the fate of asylum seekers.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/tony-abbott-evokes-john-howard-in-slamming-doors-in-asylum-seekers-20130815-2rzzy.html#ixzz2c5p2h8KT&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #003399; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/tony-abbott-evokes-john-howard-in-slamming-doors-in-asylum-seekers-20130815-2rzzy.html#ixzz2c5p2h8KT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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At the end of the leader&#39;s &quot;debate&quot; PM Kevin Rudd pledged to introduce a marriage equality bill within 100 days days if re-elected. The ALP left and Rainbow Labor will try to spin this as a win for the equality campaign, especially now that Rudd is in favour but allowing a conscience vote will doom the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
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Labor has a policy of binding their MPs to vote one way or another on a bill with threatened punishments ranging from a stern warning to expulsion from the party depending on if the policy is in the ALP National Platform and how strongly the National Executive feel about said bill. A conscience vote allows Labor (just as it did when Gillard was PM) to straddle both sides of the fence at once. Labor MPs in progressive seats can vote yes and say it&#39;s not their fault when it fails while Labor MPs in socially conservative seats can vote no.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let&#39;s not forget in the past they&#39;ve made an openly gay Minister (Penny Wong) vote NO to marriage equality because it was a binding no. They don&#39;t really care about equality, it&#39;s all about the politics and the politics of this makes sense but it&#39;s a disgusting way to handle it, especially with 70%+ of the country supporting marriage equality. The Government should NOT have the right to discriminate with anything it does. If they want discrimination when it comes to marriage they should leave marriages under the control of churches and only officially recognise de-facto/civil unions/whatever they decide to call it which recognises relationships whether same-sex or opposite-sex.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Welcome to AustraliaVotes Live coverage on the 2012 US Elections. Updates will be sporadic at times and some updates will only be on the AustraliaVotes twitter (all times are Sydney time)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;5:00pm OBAMA WINS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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2:&lt;b&gt;00pm &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Electoral College Vote Update. ABC Australia - Obama 217-167, CNN Romney 152-143, PBS Romney 158-154, MSNBC Obama 162-153&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;1:30pm&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;New Hampshire &lt;/b&gt;(16%) Obama 55 - Romney 44. &lt;b&gt;Michigan&lt;/b&gt; (14%) Obama 51 - Romney 48&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;1:15pm&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Ohio&lt;/b&gt; (32%) Obama 54 - Romney 42. &lt;b&gt;Florida&lt;/b&gt; (42%) 50-50. &lt;b&gt;Virginia&lt;/b&gt; (42%) Romney 52 - Obama 47. &lt;b&gt;Wisconsin&lt;/b&gt; (1%) Romney 52 - Obama 47&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;1:10pm&lt;/b&gt; Ballot Measure update. &lt;b&gt;Alabama&lt;/b&gt; (1% reporting) &lt;b&gt;Limit Obamacare&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Yes&lt;/b&gt; 61-39. &lt;b&gt;Arkansas&lt;/b&gt; (1%) &lt;b&gt;Allow Medical Marijuana&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;No/Yes&lt;/b&gt; tied on 50. &lt;b&gt;Florida&lt;/b&gt; (52%) &lt;b&gt;Limit Obamacare&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Yes&lt;/b&gt; 51 - 49, &lt;b&gt;No public funds for abortion No&lt;/b&gt; 55 - 45. Maine (2%) &lt;b&gt;Allow Same-sex marriage No&lt;/b&gt; 59-41. &lt;b&gt;Maryland&lt;/b&gt; (1%) &lt;b&gt;Allow same-sex marriage Yes&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;55-45. &lt;b&gt;Massachusetts &lt;/b&gt;(14%) &lt;b&gt;Allow medical marijuana Yes &lt;/b&gt;63-37&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;12:10pm&lt;/b&gt; Ballot Measures - &lt;b&gt;Florida&lt;/b&gt; (18% reporting) Limit Obamacare in state No 53 - Yes 47. No public funds for abortion No 56 - Yes 44.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;12:00pm&lt;/b&gt; Electoral College Update - CNN Obama 64 - Romney 40, ABC Australia still 177-167&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;11:45am&lt;/b&gt; Romney currently leading the popular vote 51-48 (2,045,558 - 1,949,578)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;11:40am&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Senate - &lt;b&gt;Vermont&lt;/b&gt; - Sanders (IND) hold, leading McGovern (GOP) 76-19 with 1% reporting. Indiana - 14% reporting Donelly (DEM) and Mourdock (GOP) tied on 47%&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;11:35am&lt;/b&gt; 24% in from &lt;b&gt;Florida&lt;/b&gt; - Obama leads 51-48&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;11:32am&lt;/b&gt; That 177-167 is from ABC Australia. The CNN tally is Romney 24 (WV, IN, KY), Obama 3 (VT).&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;11:25am&lt;/b&gt; CNN projects &lt;b&gt;Indiana&lt;/b&gt; for Romney&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;11:15am &lt;/b&gt;Current electoral college tally - Obama 177, Romney 167.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;11:10am&lt;/b&gt; To start, here is my prediction of the Presidential Election from a couple of days ago.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pUu98bZzNAk/UJmojfVq8hI/AAAAAAAAAmw/yTeus3WTG-k/s1600/prespredict.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;460&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pUu98bZzNAk/UJmojfVq8hI/AAAAAAAAAmw/yTeus3WTG-k/s640/prespredict.png&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/11/us-elections-2012-prediction-and-updates.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pUu98bZzNAk/UJmojfVq8hI/AAAAAAAAAmw/yTeus3WTG-k/s72-c/prespredict.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>29</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-5250395459110400167</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-11-04T13:58:39.673+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#sydvotes #syd12</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sydney</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sydney by-election 2012</category><title>Live: Sydney by-election</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Sydney by-election results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Turnout: 62.2% - 2.8% informal&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Primary Vote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Candidate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Party&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vote %&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Swing %&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;Robyn Peebles&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple;&quot;&gt;CDP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;1.9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;0.8&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;Alex Greenwich&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;IND&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;47.3&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;Chris Harris&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: lime;&quot;&gt;GRN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;17.7&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;4.9&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;Shayne Mallard&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;LIB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;30.9&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;-5.3&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;Glenn Wall&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #999999;&quot;&gt;IND&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;2.2&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;2.2&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;2CP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Greenwich 63.7% - Mallard 36.3%&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/10/live-sydney-by-election.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-2932372269833915829</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-16T15:47:17.417+10:00</atom:updated><title>NSW Council Election: Byron Booth Results.</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Nothing much out of the ordinary with the booth results as far as I can tell. The weird thing is The Greens getting 2.99 quotas yet only electing 2 councillors, must have been a very tight preference exchange.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;iframe frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dF81cC05dTV3aFVVUGg2ZHRKVjEycmc&amp;amp;output=html&amp;amp;widget=true&quot; width=&quot;650&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/09/nsw-council-election-byron-booth-results.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-2752679392471999663</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-16T15:09:53.827+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswlocal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blue mountains council election</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blue mountains council election results</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw council elections 2012</category><title>NSW Council Elections: Blue Mountains Booth Results</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Next up we have the Blue Mountains booth results. First ward - we see a few booth wins for Labor and a few for The Greens with the Liberals winning most, second and 3third wards dominated by the Liberals with Labor dominating the fourth.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;iframe frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;450&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dG5rMHBtZHlSMllqLUw4aW9Hc1RTVkE&amp;amp;output=html&amp;amp;widget=true&quot; width=&quot;650&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/09/nsw-council-elections-blue-mountains.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-759798836668827065</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-16T13:49:16.720+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswlocal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blacktown council election results</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">greens election results</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">labor council election results</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">liberal party council election results</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw council elections 2012</category><title>NSW Council Elections 2012: Blacktown Booth Results</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
In this post and ones to follow I&#39;ll be embedding the booth results from the recent NSW Council elections for selected councils, starting with Blacktown. See the tabs at the bottom for other wards. If you have any questions feel free to post a comment or ask me on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/paul_ausvotes&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;iframe frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dFpPem83QU5aSzB0SjZ5TjN5ME5GcVE&amp;amp;output=html&amp;amp;widget=true&quot; width=&quot;650&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/09/nsw-council-elections-2012-blacktown.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>8</thr:total><georss:featurename>Shalvey NSW 2770, Australia</georss:featurename><georss:point>-33.7297075 150.8050313</georss:point><georss:box>-33.7429135 150.78529029999999 -33.716501500000007 150.8247723</georss:box></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-5905262691145498118</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-15T21:27:15.250+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswlocal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw council elections 2012</category><title>2012 NSW Council Elections - candidates elected by council</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Will be continually updated as more results come in&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;iframe frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dFh6ZGluS0Q1cFlWRjNmUzdKeGFnUnc&amp;amp;output=html&amp;amp;widget=true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/09/2012-nsw-council-elections-candidates.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-4851233458291652628</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-15T20:54:28.364+10:00</atom:updated><title>Payments made to parties after 2010 election.</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
This spreadsheet is in response to a post on Facebook about compulsory. I&#39;m using it to show why the parties probably aren&#39;t to keen to get rid of compulsory voting while we have the current public funding model - to receive funding a candidate must receive at least 4% of the first preference vote (single electorate or senate race, not nation-wide) The amount paid per vote for the 2010 election was 231.191 cents.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;iframe frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dExZU1J3dmNrcUNYaUVWNUk0QmQxMmc&amp;amp;output=html&amp;amp;widget=true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/09/payments-made-to-parties-after-2010.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-3137681191279599621</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-09-15T20:35:39.248+10:00</atom:updated><title>Document dump</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Been making a few political spreadheets lately, have decided to publish them all on this blog now to make them easier to link to. Stay tuned.&lt;/div&gt;
</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2012/09/document-dump.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-5154979952151360639</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-20T17:10:31.865+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><title>Booth Swings Collection.</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I hope to eventually do booth swings for all 93 seats. This is time consuming due to manually having to enter the data for this election and the 2007 election. What&#39;s made it worse is the name change of some booths and the NSWEC site only having the booth name, not address, forcing me to try to find the booth in one of the 2007 Federal Election seats too see what the old name was. So I will do them when I can but being a full-time carer I don&#39;t always have the time.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anyway here is the list of seats I&#39;ve completed so far. .&lt;br /&gt;
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Check back for updates. Latest seat will be in &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;. Next seat will be named but not linked.&lt;br /&gt;
(Direct links to spreadsheet hostd by Google Docs as it&#39;s awkward to read on the read on the blog when I embed it)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;SEAT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dDlhN1ZqaUk5ajJINFNZQlNBNTVyUkE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Balmain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dDVoYXRGTFFWSjJkNEtod0t1WTg1cVE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Blacktown&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dHVJU2dQSmt2VmY5ZlAtbEI4b2lELWc&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Blue Mountains&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dE1wVEI3eGoxMFUxTWw4RDFpTnIyb1E&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Coogee&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dHBlVUJDdFp3T2hiNGI5ckktVzRKd2c&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Heffron &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dGVpeGl2OGx2MTdGVC13SFBrWWd3Z1E&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Lane Cove&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dGVQaVFSU1BueHRCNU9oZEo1UEszeVE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Lismore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dHBpM3NJVVZLcnpmcnFlbUZmd1ZManc&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Marrickville&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dFlJRjlsNko1MTN3aGxmU2EtNUQ0WUE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Mount Druitt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dFNCc0loQlliN01TNjRITGJGUHRIRkE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;North Shore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dE1LRmpaUjRiVkY2WXFqNjlUa0gwMHc&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Parramatta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dEo1OENYZndlQ3RHY09ZMlVlNnAxd0E&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Penrith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dFBLSjZibWpSdFhMQjJnSU1JSFVvU2c&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Riverstone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dFpLeUZaa3JaQlZLM3BfYlBWbDJncFE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Toongabbie &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dGc2Xzlpa3Iwek9RWHlxcTFNQjBNZkE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Vaucluse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dHA1Q0xpQ1pJSThCNTkxLWV3SEpDRFE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Willoughby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4YzYw9AvnC_ZDI1MjBkYTAtZjg0ZS00MzBlLThkYTgtYWI3ZWM2MzgyZDQ2&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;Here is the link&lt;/a&gt; to all my NSW Election 2011 stats and figures.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2011/04/booth-swings-collection.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-828794846511781865</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-09T12:23:42.934+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">balmain 2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blacktown 2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marrickville 2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">penrith 2011</category><title>My NSW Election 2011 collection.</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B4YzYw9AvnC_ZDI1MjBkYTAtZjg0ZS00MzBlLThkYTgtYWI3ZWM2MzgyZDQ2&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to see all the documents (booth results, booth swings, Greens exhaust rates) I&#39;ve made about the 2011 NSW election. More booth swings and booth results will be added so check back later.&lt;br /&gt;
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(With the booth swings docs, click the tabs down the bootm left to see interactive charts)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-nsw-election-2011-collection.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-4070383198542097686</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-05T21:43:12.670+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><title>NSW Election: Green exhaust rate and preference flows.</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Below is a spreadsheet with Green voters exhaust rates and preference flows for seats where a Green candidate was knocked out before the winning candidate was elected. A lot of seats won by the Liberal Party were won on primary votes so the NSWEC has not provided full distribution of preference PDFs. Hit me up on twitter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/paul_ausvotes&quot;&gt;@paul_ausvotes&lt;/a&gt; if you want something explained further&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;iframe frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; src=&quot;https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dENMbDBCUzNrbVlPT2VZUF84aHJ2Tmc&amp;amp;output=html&amp;amp;widget=true&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2011/04/nsw-election-green-exhaust-rate-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-4046791968399528012</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-04T11:34:34.607+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">willoughby 2011</category><title>NSW Election: Willoughby Booth Results</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&#39;500&#39; height=&#39;300&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39; src=&#39;https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dGp6MlowSV9pUjlJakVuTFdFS19leFE&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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(Numbers in brackets are total votes for the booth)</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2011/04/nsw-election-willoughby-booth-results.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-8640061457547009512</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-01T16:44:28.275+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ku-ring-gai election results</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><title>NSW Election: Ku-ring-gai Booth Results.</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&#39;500&#39; height=&#39;300&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39; src=&#39;https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dERCMVVnYjZMLVJUeW51VFJmRENvOWc&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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(Numbers in brackets are total votes for the booth)</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2011/04/nsw-election-ku-ring-gai-booth-results.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-4737378225212121870</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-31T13:38:00.878+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><title>NSW Election: Penrith Booth Results.</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&#39;500&#39; height=&#39;300&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39; src=&#39;https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dE9IWWRkU25SeFVjQlptSHJfY3llUlE&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Check back later for updates as absentees are added.</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2011/03/nsw-election-penrith-booth-results.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-209458001490704605</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-29T14:23:56.097+11:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marrickville 2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marrickville election 2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><title>NSW Election: Marrickville Booth Results</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&#39;500&#39; height=&#39;300&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39; src=&#39;https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dGFicDdEOGlZOUUtbUFIQnI0ZkR4OHc&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Check back later for updates as absentees are added and postals are updated.</description><link>http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2011/03/nsw-election-marrickville-booth-results.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7711730673237223185.post-977763030750928794</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-08T10:21:04.857+10:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">#nswvotes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nsw election 2011</category><title>NSW Election: Balmain Booth Results</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&#39;500&#39; height=&#39;300&#39; frameborder=&#39;0&#39; src=&#39;https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?hl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;key=0AoYzYw9AvnC_dFBHYko5MFY5ZjVyTG1rVVo1NTZtWlE&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true&#39;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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