Australia 2013 - Results thread

[Mr. Morden]

What's the best website to go to track results on individual seats?

[Mr. Morden]

What's the best website to go to track results on individual seats?

I'm on ABC, but you're actually Australian...

Ftr, I'm not Australian.  I just live here. 

Yeah, I have a million TV channels to choose from to watch coverage.  But what I'm actually looking for is a website that lists all the seats, where I can click on the seat, and see what the tentative results are....so I don't have to wait for them to go through them one by one on TV.  Is there a good site for that?

[Mr. Morden]

ABC has the first Senate results in for Tasmania (only 7.49% of the vote so far):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/results/senate/tas/

[Mr. Morden]

ABC's alternate universe reporting problem on the NSW and Victoria Senate results seems to be fixed.

I know it's too early to take these seriously, but just for fun, taking the preliminary Senate results from all states except WA (which isn't reporting enough votes yet for ABC to tell us anything), the nationwide net Senate changes from 2007 are:

PUP +2
Family First +1
Greens +1
LDP +1
Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party +1 (lol?)

L/N Coalition -1
ALP -5

[Mr. Morden]

First Senate results in from Western Australia: 3 Liberals, 1 ALP, 1 PUP, 1 Green. So, if current Senate projections are maintained (lol):

Coalition 33
ALP 25
Greens 10
PUP 3
DLP 1
LDP 1
FFP 1
AMEP 1
Nick Xenophon 1

EDIT: Also the call for the CLP in Lingiari seems to have been taken back...

That would be a hilarious composition for the Senate.  Labor + Greens would no longer have a majority, and so the Coalition would constantly be dealing with these minor parties with one member each to get stuff passed.

What is the AMEP's platform anyway?

[Mr. Morden]

Interesting that a libertarian will be in the senate. What's PUP all about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_United_Party

[Mr. Morden]

According to their website the Australian Sports Party support "Healthy Living Through Sport" and say

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Since no party has anywhere close to a Senate majority, these parties winning just one seat will control the balance of power.  Isn't democracy fun?

[Mr. Morden]

Do we have any statewide 2PP numbers yet?