Elections Without Thresholds

[Lord Halifax]

It's OK, just please keep them confined to a single post

I don't quite understand what you mean?

rather than making a new post for every single election, I think it would be better to simply combine more of them in groups. (i.e. have a single post for all the WA elections etc) It makes things nicer on the eyes.

When I started this I was going to do every Federal election in one post, however 90% of the way through my computer crashed, and I lost everything, so now I'm doing it one after the other, because my computer crashes with regularity due to being severely overworked. (I have a 4GB mid 2012 Macbook Air with full memory, constantly running with 4 apps open, including 3 seperate chrome tabs to handle on average 100 tabs. In addition I am regularly using DRA in a seperate safari window. The Genius Bar has commented that they are amazed how overworked my computer is, given that my original battery should have lasted until mid next year, however instead I have had to have the battery replaced 7 times.)

Or, to cut a long ramble short, my computer crashes frequently so I do one election per post to minimise repetition.

Just write all the elections in a word document and post it when you are finished.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

It's OK, just please keep them confined to a single post

I don't quite understand what you mean?

rather than making a new post for every single election, I think it would be better to simply combine more of them in groups. (i.e. have a single post for all the WA elections etc) It makes things nicer on the eyes.

When I started this I was going to do every Federal election in one post, however 90% of the way through my computer crashed, and I lost everything, so now I'm doing it one after the other, because my computer crashes with regularity due to being severely overworked. (I have a 4GB mid 2012 Macbook Air with full memory, constantly running with 4 apps open, including 3 seperate chrome tabs to handle on average 100 tabs. In addition I am regularly using DRA in a seperate safari window. The Genius Bar has commented that they are amazed how overworked my computer is, given that my original battery should have lasted until mid next year, however instead I have had to have the battery replaced 7 times.)

Or, to cut a long ramble short, my computer crashes frequently so I do one election per post to minimise repetition.

Just write all the elections in a word document and post it when you are finished.

I don't have word

[Starpaul20]

Try Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Try Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/

I have google docs but it is a school account, and they are extremely strict about school content only.

[Lord Halifax]

It's OK, just please keep them confined to a single post

I don't quite understand what you mean?

rather than making a new post for every single election, I think it would be better to simply combine more of them in groups. (i.e. have a single post for all the WA elections etc) It makes things nicer on the eyes.

When I started this I was going to do every Federal election in one post, however 90% of the way through my computer crashed, and I lost everything, so now I'm doing it one after the other, because my computer crashes with regularity due to being severely overworked. (I have a 4GB mid 2012 Macbook Air with full memory, constantly running with 4 apps open, including 3 seperate chrome tabs to handle on average 100 tabs. In addition I am regularly using DRA in a seperate safari window. The Genius Bar has commented that they are amazed how overworked my computer is, given that my original battery should have lasted until mid next year, however instead I have had to have the battery replaced 7 times.)

Or, to cut a long ramble short, my computer crashes frequently so I do one election per post to minimise repetition.

Just write all the elections in a word document and post it when you are finished.

I don't have word

You gotta have some kind of writing program (if not, set up a Google Doc).

[IceAgeComing]

there's bloody text edit built in to every mac; and i'm pretty sure that 2013 is around the time where they started including Pages by default.  There's also stuff like LibreOffice that you can get for free and also Google Docs like others have said.  Needless to say, there are plenty of options to format your posts elsewhere and it'd mean that people might actually read the stuff that you post.

Also your inability to prune tabs every so often (admittedly I'm also terrible at this but admittedly it is mostly job application related things plus not three hundred tabs like jesus christ there's not three hundred things you always need access to) or not close an incredibly resource intensive website when you aren't using it isn't an excuse to post lots of short posts without any commentary on the actual results - especially since you're insisting on using an incredibly large signature which means that scrolling through the thing is incredibly irritating.  Either put them in one post or only focus on interesting ones!

[AustralianSwingVoter]

there's bloody text edit built in to every mac; and i'm pretty sure that 2013 is around the time where they started including Pages by default.  There's also stuff like LibreOffice that you can get for free and also Google Docs like others have said.  Needless to say, there are plenty of options to format your posts elsewhere and it'd mean that people might actually read the stuff that you post.

Also your inability to prune tabs every so often (admittedly I'm also terrible at this but admittedly it is mostly job application related things plus not three hundred tabs like jesus christ there's not three hundred things you always need access to) or not close an incredibly resource intensive website when you aren't using it isn't an excuse to post lots of short posts without any commentary on the actual results - especially since you're insisting on using an incredibly large signature which means that scrolling through the thing is incredibly irritating.  Either put them in one post or only focus on interesting ones!

I just had an idea, if I get rid of my signature will that make my posts less space consuming, and therefore not as much of a nuisance?

[AustralianSwingVoter]

there's bloody text edit built in to every mac; and i'm pretty sure that 2013 is around the time where they started including Pages by default.  There's also stuff like LibreOffice that you can get for free and also Google Docs like others have said.  Needless to say, there are plenty of options to format your posts elsewhere and it'd mean that people might actually read the stuff that you post.

Also your inability to prune tabs every so often (admittedly I'm also terrible at this but admittedly it is mostly job application related things plus not three hundred tabs like jesus christ there's not three hundred things you always need access to) or not close an incredibly resource intensive website when you aren't using it isn't an excuse to post lots of short posts without any commentary on the actual results - especially since you're insisting on using an incredibly large signature which means that scrolling through the thing is incredibly irritating.  Either put them in one post or only focus on interesting ones!

I just had an idea, if I get rid of my signature will that make my posts less space consuming, and therefore not as much of a nuisance?

I just deleted my signature, and I think it makes my posts look better and less overwhelming, especially on a phone.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Well the ECQ just released the official, final results so I present:
Queensland state election, 2017

Labor - 33 (-15)
LNP - 32 (-7)
One Nation - 13 (+12)
Greens - 9 (+8)
Independents - 4 (+3)
Katter's - 2 (-1)

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

a Lab-Green coalition there would only be 42 seats, 5 short of a majority, You'd have to brig Katter and the indies. (Be definitely more viable than an LNP led coalition though)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

a Lab-Green coalition there would only be 42 seats, 5 short of a majority, You'd have to brig Katter and the indies. (Be definitely more viable than an LNP led coalition though)

It's very difficult numbers for anyone, however I'd say that the LNP has a far better chance of the stars aligning correctly than Labor.

[Kingpoleon]

What if you modified one post, one election at a time?

[AustralianSwingVoter]

So, I ask once again, can I continue with this?

[IceAgeComing]

What if you modified one post, one election at a time?

There you go; do this!  Its not quite as good as using textedit or something to put your posts together but its better than two hundred and seven consecutive posts that no one is reading.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

What if you modified one post, one election at a time?

There you go; do this!  Its not quite as good as using textedit or something to put your posts together but its better than two hundred and seven consecutive posts that no one is reading.

Can I just continue it as I was. I've removed my really quite large signature.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

What if you modified one post, one election at a time?

There you go; do this!  Its not quite as good as using textedit or something to put your posts together but its better than two hundred and seven consecutive posts that no one is reading.

Can I just continue it as I was. I've removed my really quite large signature.

I've decided to also add my thoughts on the Government which would result from each election, so I've updated each election to add this information.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1965

Liberal and Country - 25 (+4)
Labor - 22 (+1)
Country - 2 (-6)
Independents - 1 (+1)

Liberal and Country - Country Coalition


Legislative Council

Liberal and Country - 8 (±)
Labor - 6 (+2)
Country - 1 (-2)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1968

Labor - 24 (+1)
Liberal and Country - 24 (+5)
Country - 2 (-7)
Democratic Labor - 1 (+1)

Liberal and Country - Country Coalition


Legislative Council

Labor - 8 (+2)
Liberal and Country - 6 (+2)
Country - 1 (-4)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1971

Labor - 26 (±)
Liberal - 16 (-1)
Democratic Labor - 5 (+5)
Country - 3 (-5)
Independents - 1 (+1)

Labor Majority


Legislative Council

Labor - 8 (+4)
Liberal - 5 (-4)
Democratic Labor - 2 (+2)
Country - 0 (-2)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1974

Labor - 25 (+3)
Liberal - 21 (-2)
National Alliance - 5 (-1)

Liberal - National Alliance Coalition


Legislative Council

Labor - 7 (+2)
Liberal - 7 (-2)
National Alliance - 1 (±)


note: The National Alliance resulted from the merger of the Country and Democratic Labor parties.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1977

Liberal - 28 (+1)
Labor - 25 (+3)
National Country - 2 (-4)

Liberal Majority


Legislative Council

Liberal - 9 (±)
Labor - 7 (+3)
National Country - 0 (-3)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1980

Labor - 26 (+3)
Liberal - 25 (-1)
National Country - 2 (-1)
National - 1 (-2)
Democrats - 1 (+1)

The winner depends on which way the National Party and the Democrats went. Cowan, the leader of the National Party, had publicly stated that he would support a Labor minority Government if they were the largest party. Meanwhile the Democrats never said which of the two they'd support, though given their founder, Don Chipp was a disaffected Liberal I would slightly lean towards saying the Liberals. The National Country went into the election in a Coalition with the Liberals so it's clear what they'd of done.
Long story short; Labor has 26, Liberal-National Country has 27, it all depends on the Democrats and the renegade National Party.


Legislative Council

Liberal - 8 (-2)
Labor - 8 (+3)
National Country - 0 (-1)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1983

Labor - 31 (-1)
Liberal - 23 (+3)
National Country - 2 (-1)
National - 1 (-1)

Labor Majority


Legislative Council

Labor - 9 (+2)
Liberal - 8 (-1)
National - 0 (-1)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1986

Labor - 31 (-1)
Liberal - 24 (+5)
National - 2 (-4)

Labor Majority


Legislative Council

Labor - 8 (-1)
Liberal - 8 (+2)
Democrats - 1 (+1)
National - 0 (-2)

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Western Australian state election, 1989

Legislative Assembly

Liberal - 26 (+6)
Labor - 25 (-6)
Grey Power - 3 (+3)
National - 2 (-4)
Independents - 1 (+1)

Liberal - National minority Coalition with support from Grey Power


Legislative Council

Liberal - 15 (±)
Labor - 15 (-1)
National - 1 (-2)
Grey Power - 1 (+1)
Democrats - 1 (+1)
Greens - 1 (+1)