Vic State Election

[Culprit]

The VEC has completed its recount in Ripon. The Libs won by 15 votes.

I expect it to go to the court of disputed turns as they had the ALP the winner with 31 votes before a partial recount.

[David]

[stui magpie]

Yeah, good on Fiona. I gave her my 1 vote.

[Pies4shaw]

[Morrigu]

I am absolutely ecstatic that AJP have secured a seat!

I spent quite a few hours as a volunteer scrutineer at the Showgrounds post election - what a process!! So many people, so manual, piles of ballot papers with elastic bands and post it notes!!! Manual counts and manual transcriptions on to yet more bits of paper then added up by calculator.

Surely there has to be a better way - it seemed ridiculous in this day and age - no wonder recounts are needed

[David]

[Culprit]

Fiona is attacking the Preference Whisperer is very hypocritical as that is how she got into Parliament last time. For someone to become and MP on a handful of votes when someone else has thousands more votes is wrong. The ALP and the LNP hopefully get together to bring Victoria into line with other States (Exclude WA). In saying that they did vote together to give us this system.

My view is the ALP only need one more vote to pass any policy as they will have the Reason and Greens Party on board. Easy to obtain the 3rd vote. Daniel Andrews would be very pleased.

[watt price tully]

Fiona is attacking the Preference Whisperer is very hypocritical as that is how she got into Parliament last time. For someone to become and MP on a handful of votes when someone else has thousands more votes is wrong............

Can people learn from their mistakes?

[David]

[David]

[Jezza]

Legislative Council Results:
- Labor = 18
- Coalition = 11
- Derryn Hinch's Justice= 3
- Liberal Democrats = 2
- Greens = 1
- Shooters, Fishers and Farmers = 1
- Animal Justice = 1
- Reason = 1
- Sustainable Australia = 1
- Transport Matters = 1

Primary Vote:
- Labor = 1,405,475 (39.22%) = 18 Seats
- Coalition = 1,054,779 (29.43%) = 11 Seats
- Greens = 331,479 (9.25%) = 1 Seat
- Derryn Hinch's Justice = 134,266 (3.75%) = 3 Seats
- Shooters, Fishers and Farmers = 108,280 (3.02%) = 1 Seat
- Liberal Democrats = 89,428 (2.50%) = 2 Seats
- Animal Justice = 88,520 (2.47%) = 1 Seat
- Democratic Labour = 75,221 (2.10%) = 0 Seats
- Reason = 49,013 (1.37%) = 1 Seat
- Voluntary Euthanasia = 42,611 (1.19%) = 0 Seats
- Aussie Battler = 33,172 (0.93%) = 0 Seats
- Victorian Socialists = 32,603 (0.91%) = 0 Seats
- Sustainable Australia = 29,831 (0.83%) = 1 Seat
- Health Australia = 28,132 (0.79%) = 0 Seats
- Country = 24,295 (0.68%) = 0 Seats
- Transport Matters = 22,051 (0.62%) = 1 Seat
- Australian Liberty Alliance = 20,065 (0.56%) = 0 Seats
- Hudson for Northern Victoria = 6,363 (0.18%) = 0 Seats
- Vote 1 Local Jobs = 5,338 (0.15%) = 0 Seats
- Independent = 2,556 (0.07%) = 0 Seats

Regions:

Eastern Metropolitan Region:
- Labor = 2
- Coalition = 2
- Transport Matters = 1

Eastern Victoria Region:
- Labor = 2
- Coalition = 2
- Shooters, Fishers and Farmers = 1

Northern Metropolitan Region:
- Labor = 2
- Coalition = 1
- Greens = 1
- Reason = 1

Northern Victoria Region:
- Labor = 2
- Coalition = 1
- Derryn Hinch's Justice = 1
- Liberal Democrats = 1

South Eastern Metropolitan Region:
- Labor = 3
- Coalition = 1
- Liberal Democrats = 1

Southern Metropolitan Region:
- Labor = 2
- Coalition = 2
- Sustainable Australia = 1

Western Metropolitan Region:
- Labor = 3
- Coalition = 1
- Derryn Hinch's Justice = 1

Western Victoria Region:
- Labor = 2
- Coalition = 1
- Derryn Hinch's Justice = 1
- Animal Justice = 1

[K]

[David]

The voting! My sympathies go out to whoever has to do data entry at the moment.

[K]

Electoral officers were a little hazy on whether absent people (away from home) could vote onlline... They could do something online, but whether that was just registering their absence, authorizing a designated person to vote on their behalf, or ...

[stui magpie]