9.25pm. ABC computer has Maryborough back to LNP gain, after lapsing to LNP ahead for a while there.
9.07pm. Though as Antony notes, what has saved Curtis Pitt in Mulgrave is the surge to Katter’s Australian Party in north Queensland, much of which has exhausted.
9.05pm. Labor members who distinguished themselves by suffering swings of less than 10 per cent: Di Farmer in Bulimba, who has her nose in front; Jason O’Brien, whose 4.5 per cent swing against was good but not good enough; Cameron Dick in Greenslopes, likewise good but not good enough; Curtis Pitt, who has had a big personal win in retaining Mulgrave against a swing of 6.6 per cent; Anna Bligh in South Brisbane, who has actually held South Brisbane quite comfortably; Mandy Johnstone in Townsville; and Simon Finn, who might yet hold in Yeerongpilly in the face of a 9 per cent swing, but is nonetheless behind.
9.04pm. Antony cautious about the LNP winning Maryborough.
8.49pm. ABC computer promotes Bulimba and Mulgrave from ALP ahead to ALP retain. Of the eight seats where they’re in front, there are now seven down as “ALP gain”, with only Mackay remaining as “ALP ahead”. Waterford has gone from “LNP ahead” to “LNP gain”. By this reckoning, Labor’s absolute best case scenario is now nine seats.
8.39pm. ABC computer has dialled Maryborough back from LNP gain to LNP ahead.
8.25pm. The KAP may yet have an outside hope in Thuringowa if Labor preferences favour them strongly. The primary votes are 36.0 per cent for the LNP, 30.6 per cent for the KAP and 27.4 per cent for labor. Antony Green appears not to think so though. Bob Katter sounding bullish, for what it’s worth.
8.18pm. Sorry, got confused there – it has stayed on eight. Mulgrave now up from ALP ahead to ALP retain.
8.12pm. ABC now down to seven seats with Labor ahead: retaining Bundamba, Inala, Rockhampton, South Brisbane and Woodridge, ahead in Bulimba, Mackay and Mulgrave. LNP ahead in Waterford and Yeerongpilly. Everything else compared for the LNP, except Mount Isa and Dalrympe for Katter’s Australian Party, Nicklin and Gladstone retained by independents.
8.10pm. ABC computer now calling independent Chris Foley’s seat of Maryborough for the LNP.
7.56pm. ABC computer now has Labor ahead in only eight seats.
7.45pm. As noted by Antony, the KAP has not made huge gains out of coal seam gas in the Darling Downs: its strength remains very much off the back of Katter in the north.
7.44pm. Antony Green not buying Seeney’s line that Peter Wellington is in trouble in Nicklin.
7.42pm. ABC calling Ipswich West for LNP.
7.41pm. ABC calling South Brisbane for Anna Bligh.
7.31pm. Of the four independents, only Liz Cunningham in Gladstone is safe. Close contest in Maryborough between independent incumbent Chris Foley and LNP challenger Anne Maddern. Dissonance between the ABC computer (IND retain) and what Jeff Seeney says (LNP looking good) with Peter Wellington’s seat of Nicklin. LNP easily recovers Burnett, where Rob Messenger quit the party mid-term. Pretty clear I think that the KAP will win Mount Isa and Dalrymple, but no more.
7.30pm. The ABC website’s predictions columns has swung into action. Bundamba, Inala, Rockhampton and Woodridge, and is ahead in Bulimba, Mackay, Mulgrave, Nudgee and South Brisbane. They could conceivably win Logan, Mundingburra, Springwood and Waterford, but there are too few figures in from them. They are behind in Cook, Lytton, Townsville and Yeerongpilly, but not gone yet.
7.28pm. Jeff Seeney sounding confident about Nicklin, but the ABC computer is calling it for Peter Wellington.
7.24pm. With a quarter of the vote counted, the ABC computer has Anna Bligh edging back ahead in South Brisbane. But clearly Andrew Fraser and Cameron Dick are gone.
7.16pm. ABC’s two-party preferred projection is about 64-36, so the exit polls are looking good.
7.15pm. ABC computer projection, when bold calls are made where one or other party is merely “ahead”, now has Labor down to 10 from 14 earlier.
7.14pm. ABC computer graphic says three seats for KAP, but I can’t see anything beyond Mount Isa and Dalrymple.
7.13pm. Carl Rackemann (KAP) appears to be falling well short in Nanango; LNP’s Deb Frecklington to win comfortably.
7.07pm. Spare a thought for Peter Beattie’s old seat of Brisbane Central: he held it by 25 per cent after the 2001 election, ABC computer now calling it for LNP (results on site lagging behind what we’re getting on television).
7.06pm. Oh yeah, Ashgrove. ABC computer has Campbell Newman romping home by 9 per cent.
7.05pm. Peter Wellington firming up in Nicklin.
7.02pm. Antony’s casualty list: Everton, Broadwater, Cook, Barron River, Townsville North, Whitsunday, Southport, Townsville, Cairns, Mansfield, Kallangur, Pine Rivers, Mount Ommaney, Burleigh, Pumicestone, Mount Coot-tha, Redcliffe, Brisbane Central, Albert, Mundingburra, Greenslopes, Ashgrove, Murrumba, Stafford, Thuringowa, Algester, Stretton, Sunnybank, Lytton.
6.54pm. Courtesy of Psephos in comments, Labor expects to lose Capalaba, which you would expect given the overall swing: the margin is 9.7 per cent.
6.52pm. Peter Wellington with a slight primary vote lead in Nicklin, but booth-matching shows a huge and decisive swing to the LNP. Probably want more figures though.
6.51pm. Anna Bligh trailing on the primary vote in South Brisbane, and slightly behind on the primary vote. But Greens preferences might save her.
6.49pm. Antony cites a swing of 13 per cent, placing the result nearer Newspoll than the exit polls which had it slightly higher. However, it may yet change. The LNP has recovered Beaudesert, where its member Aidan McLindon had defected to the KAP, which was not unexpected.
6.47pm. Nothing appearing in the “predictions” column on the ABC results page, which is bothersome because it’s the best way to follow the action when seats are falling by the bucketload.
6.42pm. As Antony notes, early results hard to read exactly because of small rural booth results: assumptions are being made about Katter’s Australian Party preferences, which constitute a considerable share of the vote. However, the ABC computer is already set to tick over to a majority for the LNP. More than 20 seats have fallen, and it’s happening too quickly for me to keep up.
6.32pm. ABC computer already calling 22 seats for the LNP and one for Labor.
6.30pm. Jeff Seeney claims Katter’s Australian Party vote well short of what they would need on small booths.
6.26pm. Two small booths in from Dalrymple: very early days of course, but encouraging for KAP incumbent Shane Knuth on 50.0 per cent.
5.19pm. Sky’s exit poll shows a 15.3 per cent swing. They appear to have done the right thing this time and told us what the swing was, rather than publishing a bewildering two-party preferred figure without telling us what seats were polled, as they have done in the past. These were the five most marginal seats: Chatsworth and Everton in Brisbane, Broadwater on the Gold Coast, Cook on the Cape York Peninsula and Barron River in Cairns.
5.10pm. Peter Black at Essential Research relates on Twitter that a Galaxy exit poll conducted for Channel Nine has the LNP’s two-party lead at 63-37.
4.40pm. Closure of polls still over an hour away, but Sky News has published its first exit poll results, only providing material on the most important factor in determining vote choice. As usual, these are hard to read, because they apparently target only the five most marginal seats. If this is to be taken literally, they have chosen seats which are pretty meaningless in the context of this election: all will be easily won by the LNP. For what it’s worth, they have the cost of living at 69 per cent, delivery of state servies at 63 per cent, carbon tax at 44 per cent, mining tax at 35 per cent and Campbell Newman’s business dealings at 17 per cent. I presume respondents were asked in turn whether each of these issues were important to them.
OK dovif.
but your punishment is to write out the word “bitch” 1,000 times and don’t ever spell it wrong again.
dovif
Two of the things that will be interesting in the wash up are what ‘others’ did and what athe Greens did.
Count so far 64 to 5 in favour of LNP.
Katter Party coming up the rear in Thuringowa! You little beauty… will need to be above Labor on Primary to get preferences though
[I think there is the Rudd factor playing out. That is they hate that Rudd was kicked out Federally.]
Muskiemp,
I think that TLM has usurped your blogname.
Blimey, Laurie Oakes is losing control of the Channel 9 panel now too.
This election has really fired up the commentariate! 😉
Everyone is a player now it seems. 😉
GW
Why so glad for Mr Katter. Their economics is neanderthal. Their gaybashing is pre-neanderthal. Surely even Queenslanders have got over that sort of stuff by now?
GW
Or did I verbal you?
I am ashamed.
[”
Why so glad for Mr Katter. Their economics is neanderthal. Their gaybashing is pre-neanderthal. Surely even Queenslanders have got over that sort of stuff by now?”]
BECAUSE I have a $200 Bet @ $51 Odd’s on a win for the Katter Party in Thuringowa!
[We still have Anna Blights seat to go…]
Yes, the interest has shifted there now. Kate Jones didn’t deserve this. All that effort, a well-liked local member, resigning as minister last June just to save her seat, doorknocking the whole electorate. All for nothing.
GW
Ah. That explains it nicely.
[BECAUSE I have a $200 Bet @ $51 Odd’s on a win for the Katter Party in Thuringowa!]
Elections are always about the hip-pocket…
Labor seems to be holding Mulgrave. Curtis Pitt will be Leader if he hangs on.
Settle petals. It’s only an election. Tomorrow the sun will still rise, the moon set or whatever usually happens.
Keep it civil and don’t treat it like a lottery. Most winners end up with a pile of regrets.
This will be no different, no matter what spin you like to put on it.
Steer as far away from the US way of doing things as is humanly possible. We don’t want to go there.
[Katter Party coming up the rear in Thuringowa! You little beauty… will need to be above Labor on Primary to get preferences though]
Bad luck truthy. There will be very few preferences flowing from ALP to Katter in an optional preferential system.
ALP deputy just said (wtte): “We are getting whipped like the NSW ALP government but were nowhere near as bad”.
Not exactly what the NSW ALP right will want to hear!
….but the truth
[Labor seems to be holding Mulgrave. Curtis Pitt will be Leader if he hangs on.]
It looks like each returned member will have several portfolios…
[BECAUSE I have a $200 Bet @ $51 Odd’s on a win for the Katter Party in Thuringowa!]
i have a $500 bet with Diog for PM Gillard will or will not be leading Labor in 2013 election. It’s as good as LNP tonight.
Craig Wallaces major booth has gone Katter Party!
[“Bad luck truthy. There will be very few preferences flowing from ALP to Katter in an optional preferential system.”]
Thats okay… booths are going majority Katter Party in Thuringowa
Sky News bottom line ALP 0 LNP 57 Oth 3 29in doubt
Boewar,
The goalkicker was Kieran Jack
I have cast my vote and am trying to get on with the new horrid reality.
p2
Thanks. Ex Swans player?
Geewiz, KAP still need to first finish ahead of ALP which is tight given they’ll get a portion of Green preferences.
How stupid are the betting agencies that they didn’t realise that Thuringowa which is partly inside Katters own federal seat and was a former One Nation seat back in 1998 wouldn’t be a chance in for the KAP?
Looks like Andrew Wilkies seat and they forgot to do the maths.
Not a winner just yet though, KAP has to get above LNP
[scorpio
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Settle petals. It’s only an election. Tomorrow the sun will still rise, the moon set or whatever usually happens.]
hey i said that 2 hrs ago
Itep…. Townsvillians don’t vote Green
There big on sports people running for election. There is Carl RAckemann who took apartheid lucre, tim mander the face of the church in public schools (pending the high court decision) and John Connolly whose feeble gameplan cost the wallabies the quarter final against England at the 2007 rugby world cup.
Forget Doubles Tennis… Labor may have to settle for Singles Tennis
Geewiz, I’m seeing 4% or so do at this stage, which might still see both Labor and LNP finish above the KAP candidate. It’s an interesting contest, though.
This is worse than Herod and the Massacre of the Innocents.
http://www.cgfaonlineartmuseum.com/duccio/p-duccio9.htm
Interestingly, Labor is doing slightly better in the regions than in SEQ. Labor is ahead in Townsville, Mackay and Mulgrave. Labor’s strategy in opposition will be to rally the regions against the SEQ dominated big business government.
Blimey! You gotta take your hat off for Peter Beattie. He is virtually the “only” spokesperson for Labor on a blatantly hostile panel and they are being so provocative that I would have been turning the desk upside down long ago and grabbing some of them by the throat.
Talk about turning politics into sport. Surely we deserve better than this. My poor country. Taken over by the Tea Party I think.
Finns
[i have a $500 bet with Diog for PM Gillard will or will not be leading Labor in 2013 election. It’s as good as LNP tonight.]
Ya wanna bet!!
Muskiemp said “Anthony Grace, where did you spring from?”
Late Eighties Queensland, I have been in hibernation for 23 years 🙂
Haven’t had time to read back so not sure if someone has posted about this.
I’ve looked a t a few electorates on the ABC website and the predicted 2PP in most cases is worse for Labor than the actual 2PP from the booths that have reported that information (typically fewer than contained in the total report for the seat). Looks like the Greens preferences may be breaking more in favour of Labor than the estimates contained in Anthony Green’s model.
what is an organic beef? is that from QLD
This election will wipe the smile of Bob Brown’s face, ALP down 16% and the Green is also losing 1.5%
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It will be the Katter Party`s strategy too.
If the Labor party is looking for any silver lining, it will be their hope that such an emphatic rejection means Queensland has got their anti-labor feeling ‘out of their system’, which will allow federal Labor to at least maintain the status quo in Queensland seats next year.
Diog, you might just as well send the cheque now to Save The Dolphin Society
[This is worse than Herod and the Massacre of the Innocents.
http://www.cgfaonlineartmuseum.com/duccio/p-duccio9.htm ]
Those baseball bats look kinda sharp…
[The Magical Liopleurodon
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If the Labor party is looking for any silver lining, it will be their hope that such an emphatic rejection means Queensland has got their anti-labor feeling ‘out of their system’,]
…unless it is a brand problem.
[Looks like the Greens preferences may be breaking more in favour of Labor than the estimates contained in Anthony Green’s model.]
Remember it’s optional preferential voting. Perhaps the Green votes aren’t exhausting as much as Antony’s model is based on.
dovif said, “This election will wipe the smile of Bob Brown’s face”
What a wonderful 40th Birthday present for his party…..
Mr Brough is a loser, I suppose. Any hope he had of parlaying Liberal and National Party discontent into self-promotion must now be gone.
[Blimey! You gotta take your hat off for Peter Beattie. He is virtually the “only” spokesperson for Labor on a blatantly hostile panel]
Reflecting the state of the new QLD parliament?
GW, I suggest your beef is with the punters rather than the betting agencies, who are only following the market. For the record, I placed four bets last night – LNP to win Nicklin at $2.50, and to win Ipswich West, Lytton and Sunnybank (I think it was) at $1.70-$2.
Sorry BW,
The GWS site is failing just like Labor here. Feelin a bit sick just now. Is there room in Blueys’ pool for another with a bottle of nice red?