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Victorian State Election 2010
Nov. 28th, 2010 08:50 pmAnother election, another long delay before the results are known. While a hung parliament is still a possibility, though, it seems to me pretty much inevitable that the Liberals will take power.
I suppose if we have to have a Liberal government, Baillieu is at least tolerable. And the state Labor government needed a kick in the pants. I’m not convinced these results are part of a national trend – considering Victoria actually swung towards Labor in the federal election, I suspect this result reflects more that the electorate feels it’s time for a change. And there are more than enough local issues for people to be dissatisfied with – the complete mess that Myki turned out to be, for example…
Disapointing that the Greens did so poorly – though with both parties failing to make preference deals with them, and Labor seeming to spend more time campaigning against them than the Liberals, hardly surprising. Plus, in a close election, you get a decrease in third party votes, due to people failing to understand how our electoral system works…
Plus, I have a theory – see, I didn’t vote Green. I voted Sex Party, with Greens as a second preference. The Sex Party seemed to pick up about 1.5-2.5 per cent of the vote everywhere they ran candidates, and those votes had to have come out of somewhere… I’m wondering if there was a small swing towards the Greens that doesn’t show up in the figures because just as many traditional Green voters switched their first preference to the Sex Party.
I suppose if we have to have a Liberal government, Baillieu is at least tolerable. And the state Labor government needed a kick in the pants. I’m not convinced these results are part of a national trend – considering Victoria actually swung towards Labor in the federal election, I suspect this result reflects more that the electorate feels it’s time for a change. And there are more than enough local issues for people to be dissatisfied with – the complete mess that Myki turned out to be, for example…
Disapointing that the Greens did so poorly – though with both parties failing to make preference deals with them, and Labor seeming to spend more time campaigning against them than the Liberals, hardly surprising. Plus, in a close election, you get a decrease in third party votes, due to people failing to understand how our electoral system works…
Plus, I have a theory – see, I didn’t vote Green. I voted Sex Party, with Greens as a second preference. The Sex Party seemed to pick up about 1.5-2.5 per cent of the vote everywhere they ran candidates, and those votes had to have come out of somewhere… I’m wondering if there was a small swing towards the Greens that doesn’t show up in the figures because just as many traditional Green voters switched their first preference to the Sex Party.