As I type, polling booths in South Australia are set to close at any tick of the clock. I do so from the studios of ABC Television in Adelaide, where I’ll be standing in for Antony Green, who spends the evening grappling with Tasmania’s high-maintenance electoral system. Obviously I won’t have much to offer in the way of live commentary on this site, but here’s a thread where you can call the toss as the results roll in.
No of course it was the chews who done it right deblonay?
Let’s be honest, the Libs couldn’t win Hartley and Bright… then they shouldn’t have bothered campaigning.
ruawake kerb crawler – waiting for that apology! Come on have some class for once !
ABC has Labor gaining Adelaide! Early days yet though
*if*… if they can’t win Hartley and Bright
I did warn about Giles. Did anyone listen? Noooo.
Also pre-polls etc are going to heavily favor the Liberals, if Labor is not clearly winning a seat then they could be caught on those votes.
Adelaide might be doing better for Labor than expected.
[ruawake kerb crawler – waiting for that apology!]
Hell freezing over is more likely – turd face. 😛
ROSS MCGEE 19”
In Vic one of the worst of tory election night know-nothings was Michael Kroger…who was a regular on panels and was always wrong ,and lacked info from the booths as the night wore on
I recall one election where Richardson demolished him, with some very accurate predictions early in the evening which turned out to be true…while Krogers predictions all went astray…a really stupid and partisan commentator !
Something very wrong in the ABC projections for Bragg.
Who’s the bald guy on the end who talks so much? 😉
Is there any site we can follow this outside SA?
Ruawake…you too kind to the mooron
Re Minchin. Yes I am sure he is pleasant – in a Hannibal Lector kind of way.
Member for Adelaide whingeing about preferences.
No sympathy from me. She’d be singing the praises of preferential voting if they were all going to her.
16.0% Counted. Updated 8:02pm
ALP 19 Libs 17.
Chapman castigating William.
Ah, its on ABC 24. Seems it isnt going quite as great for the LNP as it hoped.
Perhaps it was the Oppo leader’s urging a Labor win yesterday. LOL!
Hung parliament odds must be shortening
Billbo trying hard to bring it home for the good guys 🙂
SA going to be interesting. Looks like our William has got the interesting gig, while Anthony Green has to tear his hair out over the Tassie system.
Rau makes a very good point about the increased prepoll and postal votes meaning traditional campaigns get short-circuited by early voting.
Very frustrating. Didn’t anyone tell ECSA their website would get extra traffic on election night? The poor old Tasmanians can make theirs work.
imacca:
Tassie is done and dusted insofar as an overall outcome is concerned.
Plus William got the tamer, less partisan panel.
Kroeger already building up the argument in the case they don’t win.
Things looking ok this early for Labor.
Closing Holden might be the Libs achilles heel.
Labor was always quietly confident about Bragg 🙂
Dio:
I myself haven’t voted on an actual election day for years now. I happily tell all my friends and family and colleagues the benefits of early voting (no queues, no HTVers etc), and have managed to convince most of them to either early vote or postal vote.
I think Rau’s point is a very salient one these days.
My two bobs worth – has the completion of the South Road extension, Adelaide Oval and the RAH underway proving to people that the ALP does get thing done? Plus how were the Libs going to pay for everything if you going to cap rates, cut taxes etc – something has to give.
@ Psephos 77
Yes, I saw that huge swing to Labor. Silly ABC computer.
The ABC website now says Labor is going to win McKillop, polling 14% of the vote. What’s going on in SA?
This is the first time I have heard William bowe talk. He sounds like a race caller.
Tonight might hopefully lead to bigger and better things for William.
He seems to be getting some regular ABC spots here and there.
And apparently Labor is to gain MacKillop on a 32.1% swing(!)
The bald guy calling a hung parl’t
😉
3% swing away from the ALP. I can’t see them getting a majority.
My prediction of a Lib minority government is looking pretty good.
19 Lab
19 Lib
2 Indies so far
For what it’s worth the ABC says Labor is losing two and gaining one. That will be the greatest upset since Keating-Hewson if it’s true.
Maybe the ABC SA computer got fed hairy clarke ?
What were the party leader’s pre-election positions on a hung parliament in terms of forming govt?
@Psephos 87
Check the Seats in Doubt though – two more ALP seats have the Libs ahead (a third in doubt seat, Wright, has the ALP ahead).
If those go the way they are, we will have 23 ALP, 22 LIB, 2 IND.
Ashford will probably go too though (ABC computer hasn’t made a prediction, but the swings off the early booths look easily big enough to knock it over).
That’d give us 23 Libs, 22 Labor and 2 Independents.
[What were the party leader’s pre-election positions on a hung parliament in terms of forming govt?]
No party leader would ever answer such a question.
Colton would be the next target for the Libs after that, to get a 24th seat. Early booths look like Caica is holding on though.
Looks like the era of the Greek is upon us!
…and Adelaide is no longer listed as an ALP gain. On the plus side for the ALP, they’re still in front in Colton and Elder, and a small swing to them has appeared in Mitchell.
Edwina, forgive my ignorance, but what is a “kerb crawler”?
That would give us 24 ALP, 21 LIB, 2 IND.
ABC computer fixed, still neck and neck.
[What’s going on in SA?]
I think we should wait for Tony and Jo to explain. 🙂
[Tonight might hopefully lead to bigger and better things for William.
He seems to be getting some regular ABC spots here and there.]
I hope he does not forget us.