Final polls:
• Courtesy of The Australian, Newspoll’s final poll has Labor maintaining the 54-46 lead it recorded at the start of the campaign, with results all but identical to those recorded a week ago in the Galaxy Research poll for the Sunday Times, which is conducted by the same organisation. The latest poll has Labor on 41%, compared with 40% from Galaxy; the Liberals on 32%, compared with 31%; the Nationals steady on 5%; One Nation on 8%, compared with 13% in the previous Newspoll, and 9% from Galaxy; and the Greens on 7%, compared with 8%. However, respondents appear to be marking Mark McGowan more harshly now, as he is down one on approval to 45% and up six on disapproval to what I believe to be a new high of 40%. Conversely, Barnett has been on an upward trend from a low base, his approval rating progressing from 28% in November to 32% in late January to 34% now, while disapproval was 61% in November and has been 57% in the last two polls. He has also narrowed the gap on preferred premier, from 47-29 to 44-32 to 45-37.
• ReachTEL in tomorrow West Australian also has it at 54-46 two-party preferred, after an out-of-step poll three weeks ago had it at 50-50. After filtering out the 3.5% undecided, the latest poll has Labor on 41.8%, Liberal on 33.9%, the Nationals on 6.0%, One Nation on 6.8%, the Greens on 6.5% and others on 4.9%. A range of further questions finds Labor modestly favoured to handle the economy, the budget, crime and infrastructure, and solidly more so in relation to social services. A question on whether the Liberals should have entered a preference deal with One Nation had 22.3% and 60.7% disagree, though a fair bit of this is presumably hostility towards preference deals generally. The poll was conducted from a sample of 2573 on Thursday night.
If you’re searching for my take on the progress of counting this evening, you can find it on ABC News Radio or local stations in Western Australia, where I’ll be calling the race with the ABC’s Geoff Hutchison and Belinda Varischetti, and a shifting line-up of Labor and Liberal politicians.
The Galaxy guy on Ch9 says the WA election has been solely about WA issues, and therefore Turnbull is off the hook.
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Not going to work.
Turnbull did a single hit and run visit.
Compare and contrast Shorten.
Boerwar:
Of course. Turnbull was essentially told not to return after that fleeting single visit that was a total fail.
Can someone hurry things up and put a bullet in another useless Liberal government already?
Get a time zone WA
FWIW PvO’s seats to watch.
https://twitter.com/vanOnselenP/status/840463973346553856
The Galaxy guy on Ch9 says the WA election has been solely about WA issues, and therefore Turnbull is off the hook.
Zoomster will be pleased to hear it.
The AustralianVerified account @australian 8m8 minutes ago
WA VOTES: Exit poll projects big Labor win. Follow our live blog here http://bit.ly/2mwqSdl #wavotes #wapol #auspol
Ok. Have beer. This better be better than the US election.
While we are waiting the final 8 minutes, just an off topic comment about the crap online sporting service by rights holder Telstra and their running dogs Foxtel.
Not only have they borked the AFL coverage by restricting it to 7″ in size (rumoured to be the size of Rupert’s wang), but now they have pulled the NRL coverage at half time of the Sharks/Raiders game. The solution? Pay the demented plutocrat $39 a month.
/end whinge//
Video clip included in this tweet, includes all figures
https://twitter.com/9NewsPerth/status/840491825328664577
Nine News Perth @9NewsPerth
Our exclusive Nine-Galaxy exit poll has projected a winner- Mark McGowan looks set to achieve a swing of 12% which would win 17 new seats.
8:17 PM – 11 Mar 2017
I believe the real figures will be presented here
https://www.elections.wa.gov.au/elections/state/sgelection#/sg2017
And it looks like Antony has been redesigning the ABC election site, to make it more inpenetrable than usual
http://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wa-election-2017/
Hmm. Maybe with William working tonight we won’t get a dedicated count thread, and this is it for the evening.
Still way better than the main thread where the boring electricity wars rage on.
Wishing crap on PHON.
Suppose we’ll have to wait a while for the first booths to come in.
ABC has gone all Hollywood in it’s presentation of ‘WA Votes’! Antony Green even had a script to camera. 🙂
New thread.
ABC news now showing WA election results
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/abc-news-24/NS1413V001S00#playing
Still way better than the main thread where the boring electricity wars rage on.
Yes, I always thought that PB was a politics blog. 🙂
Bunbury and Burns Beach of particular interest to Labor.
Sprocket – You’re kidding me. They show you half a game and then demand money with menaces? That’s total garbage. You should see if you can stream it.
This is what Poll Bludgers live for. We troll and snipe and bitch at each other, and write endless crap, to relieve the boredom between elections, waiting for this moment. Now it has arrived!
I just saw something that cracked me up on the ABC feed, a pic of Brendon Grylls casting his vote using FEDERAL elections boxes with one minor difference, on the house of reps someone has written in texta ‘Small 1″ and on the the Senate ‘Big 1’.