Shit, just had a look at Fairfax - He has almost 30% of the first preference vote! He is going to romp home.

Not to mention his 'close association' with various drug dealers and corrupt cops, and his 'unusual' conduct in allegedly getting kickbacks from Marconi club for making Cops show up there as hired security guards.

:lol:

On my latest glance (I've been getting dinner ready and playing some games) it looks like the polls are nowhere near as bad as the various murdoch papers have said they were going to be.

Edited by macktheknife: 7/9/2013 08:05:20 PM

Bowen in no danger, has over 50% of primary vote. Lock.

I love election night, even when it is a slow motion train wreck.

Greens worst result in 2 decades=]

Yeah apparently at 58% or so now. 4.8% swing against but is safe

Yeah Libs are going to win large, nowhere near a bad as some of the more wilder predictions though, some of the swings are interesting....hopefully the ALP stay strong enough to be a strong opposition.

Edited by Joffa: 7/9/2013 08:07:41 PM

I don't watch the tv stuff anymore, more interesting to watch the ABC website (y)

It disgusts me that Labor and LNP preference each other in Melbourne in the hopes of ousting the Greens.

That corrupt fuck Craig Thompson has apparently gained the lowest votes ever by someone who held their seat. Prick should be in fucking jail.

Haha Clive is going to win Fairfax. Funny that what will really matter now is winning a senate seat.

Imagine him in three years after actually winning seats.

(10)% primary vote swing for Labor because of him - impressive.

Wish we could watch the senate stuff tonight as well :(

why? he got in through liberal preferences.

Boom as I said, 14 booths counted and it's now reporting an 8.4% swing to Pyne :lol: Will get 2 seconds coverage as a footnote on TV of course :P

Cathy McGowan has smashed the other for support, not going to get her over the line but she should definitely recontest next election. Expecting Lib retain of Indi with <2% o_O

Oh gawd. 4 years of a Christian right wing nutjob.

:lol: has over 50% of 1st preference votes, rest is academic ;)

A mistake they will never make again.

No the party is economically right wing, far worse.

Party Totals


Primary votes   Swing
Labor ALP   2,275,557   34.6
-4.5
Liberal LIB   1,924,449   29.3
+1.6
Liberal National LNP   677,274   10.3
-0.7
National NAT   297,176   4.5
+0.5
Country Liberal CLP   17,375   0.3
0.0
Green GRN   559,653   8.5
-2.9
Katter's Australia KAP   68,819   1.0
+0.8
Palmer United PUP   381,264   5.8
+5.8
Family First FFP   89,438   1.4
-0.8
Others OTH   284,775   4.3
+0.1

God I would love to see her get Mirabella out. I don't like their policies, but I don't mind a lot of the individuals, but she really is a fucking low life. To see an idiot like Diaz get Greenaway would have been too depressing. Scott gained Lindsay like I thought she would, but not the margin I expected. Did her comment about refugees hurt or help her?

I find the party totals pretty uninteresting really as they don't actually mean much.

3 seats short of being able to call it. Should be about an hour away you would expect.

Katter tipped to retain on preferences, just.

Edited by Joffa: 7/9/2013 08:35:57 PM

Hard to tell, but if the margin keeps tightening it may be worth getting a re count.

Just 800 votes in it at the moment!

Hmm, going to have some whiskey and quick break from politics (y)

Don't drink depressed. It can become a bad habit.

:lol: not there yet :)