Comments on: Break it down

By: Antony Green

Antony Green — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:16:15 +0000

There was fresh counting today. (No idea why the ECQ took on the task when there are so many other things to sort out first) The QEC pre-processed pre-poll and postal votes so they could count today. However, the reporting of todays counting has been erratic.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:19:42 +0000

No probs for the links, William, it’s been an invaluable resource for campaign watchers. And you’re right about the polls – but let’s not forget to give Morgan a kick!

By: Dave S

Dave S — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:18:53 +0000

The papers and commmentaries seem to be giving J B-P a hardtime for failing to capture Nanango. If we look at JB-p’s results though we see he commanded a significant swing in his favour (reducing Dolly Pratt’s margin from about 12% to about 2%). In comparison to other traditionally conservative seats held by independents where the independent members enjoyed massive swings in their favour (Nicklin and Marlborough) the result in Nanango was quite impressive. I’m not including Gympie and Gladstone in this comparison because Gympie was skewed by the weirdness of Elisa Roberts and Gladstone is a traditionally Labor seat.

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:16:38 +0000

Thank you for that Mark, and for the many, many links. While we’re in a congratulatory mood here, I should put in a rare good word for the opinion pollsters. Newspoll and Galaxy Research both had Labor on 48 per cent and the Coalition on 38 per cent in their final polls. Current tally: Labor 47.4 per cent, Coalition 37.5 per cent.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:51:20 +0000

Seconding David’s point – yes, the coverage here of the election has been fantastic.

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:44:31 +0000

I suspect that any new results to emerge from the ECQ today will be recounts.

By: Politics_Obsessed

Politics_Obsessed — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:05:10 +0000

According to the QEC website they are doing some counting on Sunday with results released everyday at 4:30pm or something like that… and postals and all will be counted within a week or so… then again I was reading this at 2am this morning so I apologise for vaugness.

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:52:18 +0000

No Evan, I don’t think they do counting on Sunday. You’ll just have to be patient!

By: David Jackmanson

David Jackmanson — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:51:39 +0000

Evan, I am fairly sure that there is no counting again until Monday morning.

And may I say what a superb job this blog has done of covering the election. Glad to see Antony Green dropping in on the comments section of the live blog last night from the tally room. No idea how he found the time.

Superb job, Bludgers.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:33:01 +0000

The ALP view on those three is that they’ll lost Bundaberg and Clayfield but win Chatsworth.