Welcome to Pineapple Party Time’s live coverage of the Queensland election. The PPT crew – Mark Bahnisch, Possum Comitatus and William Bowe – will be live blogging the count in the CoveritLive facility below. We will also be joined by guest Ben Raue, who is both of The Tally Room and at the tally room.
Please not that the facility is not open to all comers – readers are invited to discuss the count in the comments section on this post. While the facility to leave a comment is included on CoveritLive, please do not use it as your comment will not get cleared. Polls will close at 6pm and results should start to come in from 6.30pm, so expect the activity level to build up from those times accordingly.
Update: [by Mark] William and I will also be doing intermittent audio updates via Skype and livestreaming at The Sunday Talk throughout the evening.
Those outside Queensland or away from a tv who are interested in following the ABC’s coverage can access a livestream at Antony Green’s election page.
Update: [by Mark] William and I will be chatting to Matthew Kopelke at The Sunday Talk on the hour and at half past the hour respectively, with me kicking off at 6.30pm Queensland Time. You can listen here.
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Is there a 2pp result available online anywhere?
And yes I know 2pp doesn’t mean as much in OPV systems.
Surprise surprise.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25223465-5006301,00.html
22% of the vote in Beaudesert is just obscene. It will only encourage her to run again.
Big day on the Rosalie Booth and a big night scrutineering there too, big Greens and LNP vote meant Andrew Fraser’s primary vote and Pollard’s nearly equal, those Green preferences flowing to us at just over 50% sealed it. Anecdoteally I have to say that the “Voting Green? Vote 2 ALP” flyers excellent value for us as a big chunk of that 50% green preference was [1] larrissa waters and [2] andrew fraser.
Great night first getting the news on on the radio in the booth and hearing Borg’s concession speech as we drove up to Ashgrove for the victory party was magic! Kate Jones the first-class member for Ashgrove reelected despite the Children’s Hospital issue which will disappear at the next election. The pediatric specialists pamphlett I think did a lot to help, especially with pediatric surgeons and nurses there at the booths to hand it out.
Must say Andrew was excellent on TV and the speech he gave when he got back to Ashgrove likewise excellent. Always good to be represented in parliament with such an top-shelf local member.
Anna Bligh a big winner and a very relieved and happy camper tonight!
Thanks all to Crikey commenters both conservative and progressive, except for those couple of looneys who probably don’t realise just how unelectable they make the the Tory party. Democracy was the winner tonight! (sorry could not resist that
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Given the behavior of the Courier-Mail this result underlines how little influence papers now have on election outcomes.
I didn’t lose, idiot.
Bree, several hundred posts back (jesus!)… there is no Liberal/National coalition in WA. The WA Nats are fairly firm on that. Also, their equivalent in Qld is the independent members for Nanango / Maryborough / Nicklin; not the Qld Nats.
Also, note the 29.1% voting for Labor in Hinchinbrook, even after the Labor candidate made explicitly clear that he wasn’t interested in being their local member. When Elisa Roberts tried that on last time she got some pathetically small percentage of the vote, but then the ALP’s a major party eh? Hinchinbrook-ites, you’re 30% sheep. Baaa.
As for the independents, Michael Angelo Newie in Cook seems to be quite the dude (in the Big Lebowski sense of the phrase). Abide!
Damian Byrnes in Mulgrave also did OK – he got 13.5%, and seems to have gained any votes there were from Pitt the Younger. Who was he? And who was Keith Douglas in Mt Isa (got >20%, came second)?
Why was there such a swing against Labor in Cook? That’s one of the biggest ALP-LNP swings in Qld – over 10%. (The previously-mentioned tool in Hinchinbrook had the biggest, and Noosa was the second biggest, although that’s more of a swing from ex-ALP (Cate Molloy) to LNP. Coomera was the other >10% swing.)
One more question before I rack off. Why, on the ABC site, do you get things like this up the top:
when the actual margin (in Condamine, Lib/Ind) is 11.4%, so 61.4/38.6? Is it a bug, or just a parameter I’m not seeing?
And, for a trip down memory lane, what must surely be the ABC’s first ever election website:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/qe98/dispute01.htm
The calm before the One Nation storm.
Anyone see “The Offsiders” – there you would have seen Mad Jeff squirming barely able to conceal his delight that the ALP will give the AFL a huge subsidy on the Gold Coast yet having to say he would have liked to see the RL stalwart LNP get up.
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