| # | % | Swing | 2PP (proj.) | Swing | |
| Andrew Tyrrell | 177 | 0.7% | |||
| Sally Vincent (Family First) | 586 | 2.5% | -2.1% | ||
| Len Thomas | 2,513 | 10.6% | |||
| John Marshall (Greens) | 950 | 4.0% | -2.7% | ||
| Gabriel Buckley | 230 | 1.0% | |||
| Yvette D’Ath (Labor) | 10,375 | 43.6% | +12.9% | 56.2% | +16.3% |
| Talosaga McMahon | 317 | 1.3% | |||
| Liz Woollard | 279 | 1.2% | |||
| Kerri-Anne Dooley (Liberal National) | 8,353 | 35.1% | -14.1% | 43.8% | -16.3% |
| FORMAL/TURNOUT | 23,780 | 71.7% | |||
| Informal | 655 | 2.7% | +0.3% | ||
| Booths reporting: | 13 out of 13 | ||||
9.49pm. The two-party results from the pre-polls have now been added. I’ve switched off booth-matching, so all swings shown above compare the current result with the final total from 2012.
8.30pm. All booths now in on 2PP, and around 4000 new pre-poll votes added on the primary vote. I’m guessing a two-party result for the latter votes is the last outstanding addition for the evening.
8.04pm. All booths in on 2PP now except Scarborough North. The latest additions have slightly moderated Labor’s winning margin.
7.57pm. All booths in on the primary vote, four outstanding on 2PP.
7.52pm. Redcliffe TAFE 2PP added, with four left to go on 2PP, and Scarborough the one straggler on the primary vote.
7.39pm. When I said Scarborough had reported before, I meant Woody Point. Kippa-Ring north has reported as well, as have seven booths all told on 2PP. So the Labor margin of 7% is looking solid.
7.36pm. Bally Cara 2PP result added, which has moderated Labor’s gain on the preference share considerably: now up 3.6%, with the LNP down 6.3%, and exhausted up 2.8%. Still a projected Labor winning margin of 7% though.
7.33pm. Scarborough booth added on the primary vote, leaving only two more to go, but with still only one booth reporting on 2PP.
7.30pm. The pre-poll votes also have 2PP results now, and here Labor’s gain on the preference share is more modest. However, the projection above is based on polling booth results only.
7.29pm. Finally a 2PP result, from Kippa-Ring South, and the projection is now using this result rather than the 2012 election to extrapolate across other booths. This has given a solid boost to the projected Labor margin, with Labor’s share of preferences up 9.7%, the LNP’s down 8.0%, and exhausted down 1.8%.
7.23pm. Andrew Bartlett relates: “Preferences from 86 Greens votes at Kippa Ring booth went 40 ALP, 4 LNP, 42 exhausted.”
7.19pm. Independent Len Thomas, who ran in opposition to anti-bikie laws, has his head above double figures.
7.16pm. Smallish Scarborough North booth added on primary vote, leaving three more to come; still nothing for 2PP.
7.13pm. Clontarf and Redcliffe South push projected Labor margin over 5%. Four booths outstanding on primary vote, and still nothing for two-party preferred.
7.11pm. Biggest booth in yet from Kippa-Ring, which produces a good result for Labor that pushes the projected margin to nearly 5%. Still no preference counts though …
7.09pm. Woody Point South added, projected Labor margin now reaches 4.0%.
7.08pm. Clontarf Beach added, slightly increasing projected Labor winning margin. Still no two-party results though, so this assumes 2012 preference flows.
7.06pm. Bally Cara and Redcliffe TAFE have reported on the primary vote. The former is a retirement village and comfortably the electorate’s most conservative booth. Respective two-party swings are 11.8% and 14.8%, well in line with overall trend and confirming an impression of Labor winning by 3-4%.
7.04pm. 2463 pre-polls added, which I don’t have configured for booth-matching, but the swing on them is perfectly consistent with the overall trend. I gather this is about half the likely pre-poll total.
6.59pm. Second booth in now, from Frawley, and projected Labor winning margin up from 2.6% to 3.5%. Still going off 2012 preferences here, so a small degree of caution advised.
6.52pm. So far, I’m going off the 2012 election preferences. The first two columns in the above table are raw representations of the primary votes, but the swing and two-party columns are based on booth-matched results.
6.48pm. The Humpybong booth is first out of the blocks, and it shows a Labor swing 12.7%, enough to overturn the overall 10.1% by a small margin. This was Labor’s best booth in 2012, or its least bad — the LNP margin was 57-43.
6pm. Polls have now closed, as ReachTEL reports an exit poll shows Labor headed for a comfortable victory. Stay tuned for coverage of results as they emerge, which should start to happen in three-quarters of an hour or so.
Miranda
Underlying discontent with the O’Farrell government which can’t be exploited statewide because Robertson has no moral authority with the community. If the ALP change leaders in the state, then you’ll have a genuine contest.
Redcliffe
Seems to be a convergence of cuts to public services (especially health) and bikies laws. On top of that (from what I see as an outsider) Newman’s leadership personally seems to be heading in the same direction as Gillard’s. It’s like he can’t say anything that doesn’t have a negative prism put around it. For example today, he tried to do a photo op with a baby and people yelled “child abuse.” I think he may have already exhausted his political capital with voters. It’s very clear that something is beginning to break up there.
Thats a massive swing against the little dictator.
Swings like that would see him out on his ear after one term, despite his uber majority.
“You mean Labor win in a by-election, with an unpopular Premier in a seat which they had a 12% margin in (56-44) before the last election?”
Newman first, Abbott next.
And Rudd has gone to Harvard – not quite far enough away, but it will do.
Queensland Labor will now have a Caucus of five women and three men, or 62.5% women. That is surely a record for one of the major parties. Curiously, all five women hold Brisbane seats and all three men hold regional seats.
Sample size is the problem there tho Psephos :p
I like Curtis Pitt a lot. He should be Queensland’s next Treasurer. Anastasia should stay where she is to break the Liberal line that Labor only install women into leadership positions, at a State level especially, as caretaker leaders until a better bloke comes along.
I really can’t see Anna… etc. having any realistic chance of winning in 2015. She is too wooden in her media appearances and is as bereft of charisma as Short-arse. She also has an impossible task to achieve in one fell swoop, but I do expect her to do rather well. The future lies with Jackie Trad, who appeals on several counts. She’s bright, a good looker, a convincing media performer and her newness means she has no direct association with the other Anna and the ancien regime…. and her name rolls easily off the tongue. Unlike Julia, I hope she is not sacrificed before her time.