Australian Election Results Thread

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

(repeated from previous thread)
Live Election Coverage in Windows Media Player

Nine: mms://news.netshow.ninemsn.com.au/9MSNLive
(stream seems to crap out after ten minutes or so)

ABC: http://www.abc.net.au/streaming/election.asx

Has anyone found live streams from Ten or Seven?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I was about to ask if we had an Australian among us to guide us along, but then I realized we had Al which is even better

I'm rooting for two hopeless causes tonight:
1) The Coalition somehow, someway, holds on
2) The Democrats keep....something....anything.  F**king Greens.

and maybe one less hopeless:
3) The Coalition picks up those two marginal seats in Perth

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Results coming in from Calare in rural NSW - National seat.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Swan becomes more and more of a knife-edge. W/ 41 out of 42 polls reporting, and w/ the pre-polls counted Wilkie (ALP) leads by 39 votes. The remaining poll is the Boronia pre-release prison for women.  How do the women prisoners vote?  Of course, postal and provisional ballots remain to be counted as well.

In '04, only one vote was cast there and it didn't count.  In '01, no votes were cast for the prison mobile team 1 - though the prison apparently had a different name.  In other words, the result is unlikely to change there.

Postal ballots will probably lean Lib and may be enough to overcome a 39 vote lead - though Provisionals leaned heavy Labor in '04.  If the margins are the same as they were in '04, then the ALP would gain enough out of provisionals to make up for postals though.