A thread for discussion of the Western Australian election count.
And they’re off. Polls have closed, and the first results should be in in half an hour or so. I’ll be part of ABC Radio’s coverage, which you can hear on local radio in Western Australia and around the country on News Radio. Here’s a thread for you all to discuss the action as it occurs.
Author: William Bowe
William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.
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C@t:
Yep, a farmer.
The ABC reporter is standing beside a gigantic lump of Coal in Collie!
Denial!
Sky News AustraliaVerified account @SkyNewsAust 2m2 minutes ago
.@SkyNewsRicho says he ‘would not put the mortgage’ on Labor winning the WA election #wavotes #wapol http://bit.ly/2mbL9CF
greens may win Nedlands via Labor preferneces?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/wa-election-2017/guide/nedl/
Richo still trousering the grubby Murdoch shilling
Richo told us that Turnbull’s rant in Parliament was a masterstroke and Sco-Mo was going to be the next PM.
Sprocket – I can’t believe they let you watch half a sporting event and then pulled the plug. That’s disgusting. It’s UNaustralian.
If it happens (big if), it will be a big question mark over the Lib-PHON preference deal,
You think Richo would have been happy with the $1m Swiss Bank account from the torching of Alpine Offsett
ABC have allocated one seat to the WA Nationals already. I wonder which one that is?
Central Wheatbelt I think @ C@t
Richo’s mortgage is the kind you have when you live in Dover Heights (near Bondi) and have been around again kids-wise.
Anton, it wasn’t that blatant. But the ‘free for Telstra customers’ subscriptions for the AFL and NRL have major shortcomings, like finishing the coverage tonight at the 48 minute mark or showing the AFL picture in half the screen. Trying to shepherd people into the Foxtel Play service.
The PHON function would be a real freak show.
Go Kwinana and Vic Park! 🙂
Sprocket – That’s pretty bad though.
Thanks, Airlines. Candidate’s name?
Mia Davies for the Nats – she’s a sitting MP and deputy leader of the Nats.
Michael Keenan distancing himself and the WA Liberal Party at a million miles an hour now that it has all turned to merde.
…from PHON…
Kiera @KieraGorden 3m3 minutes ago
The ABC is reporting that it’s been banned from the #WAvotes One Nation election party. If true, this will backfire on them spectacularly!
Bummed we won’t get eyes on the PHON election party. 😀
When Keenan speaks I hit mute. Trying to finish dinner
Go Swan Hills!
LNP 9 ALP 7 on the onscreen ABC computer. Website is telling me 4 and 4.
Scratch that – just updated.
Swan Hills. Reminds me of the last time Labor won govt from opposition and it was a young woman who won the seat for Labor off a Liberal old man.
I’m at the Swan Hills party, big swing on here, 13.5%.
Wow, 9% swing to Labor in Carine! I’d love to know which area of the electorate that was!?!
Swing looking big (eh Richo?)
13% swing to Labor in West Perth/Constitution Centre booth!
confessions @ #72 Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 9:53 pm
You enjoy freak shows? 😀
Have 1 or 2 for me, Grimace! You’ve earned them! 🙂
Skye commentator talking about a “tidal wave” to Labor.
Jandakot do not want Roe 8.
Looking promising early. Pessimism dissipating…
26.2% swing to Labor in Willagee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
silentmajority:
I’m not quite there yet. I’m in the ‘still too early to get excited yet’ camp.
And, yes, I know what Willagee is like. I used to work in Coolbellup.
Voters out with their nail-embedded baseball bats.
‘Watto to Win!’ 🙂
Briefly ????? Put your drink down, and report in.
c@tmomma @ #87 Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 10:06 pm
Doesn’t help. Labor votes locked up in a seat already held making it even safer.
ALP are romping! No pessimism allowed : )
Bit bothered that the ABC website already lump together the Libs and Nat votes together when there’s no guarantee they’re in a coalition in WA.
Voters out with their nail-embedded baseball bats.
And hobnail boots!
That one……….yup, definitely.
The journalist interviewing Senator Dean Smith should have asked him what happened to Pauline Hanson’s party being more ‘sophisticated’ now? He was trying to suggest that she was back in the wacky basket. 🙂
I think we’re there. Labor form govt. 7:14pm just before Antony
Antony calls it