Comments on: Frome by-election (South Australia): January 17

By: bob1234

bob1234 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:02:52 +0000

“no government has ever won a by-election from (the) Opposition in South Australia”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/16/2468150.htm

By: William Bowe

William Bowe — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:01:46 +0000

That was indeed uncanny – my exact points, posted minutes later.

By: Bird of paradox

Bird of paradox — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:58:40 +0000

Agh – and now I see the post updated up the top there. Some kind of hive-mind thing going on, eh?

By: Bird of paradox

Bird of paradox — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:55:56 +0000

Independents unite to support Brock in bid for by-election glory Apparently Nick Xenophon and Kris Hanna are getting behind the Port Pirie independent, Geoff Brock. Xenophon got cited in one of the old threads on here (last SA election) as helping Hanna keep his seat as an independent after all his adventures, so this could get interesting.

By: bob1234

bob1234 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:57:10 +0000

One day to go!!!

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:27:44 +0000

Although there has been very little press about Frome, the public have been performing their civic duty. Obviously it’s holiday time so there are lots of pre-polls and postals (record numbers) but I’ve noticed a trend in recent elections for increasing numbers of pre-polls and postals at a State level.

Perhaps I should actually look it up to see if my hunch is right instead of just mouthing off. I sometimes wish I wasn’t so lazy…

A record number of early and postal votes has poured into the South Australian Electoral Office in the lead up to the Frome by-election on Saturday.

Already 1,700 people have voted early while more then 2,200 postal votes have been sent out.

The Electoral Office says the response represents about 18 per cent of eligible voters and is the biggest response in any South Australian election.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/14/2465789.htm

By: bob1234

bob1234 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:25:56 +0000

Thanks for the update William.

So Nats and Labor prefing Brock, and Greens not prefing anyone. I think it’ll be Liberal v Brock, and hopefully Brock gets over the line on prefs.

By: sykesie

sykesie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:26:04 +0000

I travelled through Frome just before Christmas and noted a large number of national party signs around towns such as Clare, Penwortham and Watervale – so it will be interesting to see how they poll on Saturday – could be some possibility of the Nationals running second I suppose, but I somehow doubt it.

By: bob1234

bob1234 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:16:17 +0000

Thanks for the info Michael!

First state by-election in 15 years, only 4 days away! I’m excited! One can only hope that Brock manages to get over the line on prefs.

By: Michael Gorey

Michael Gorey — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:07:03 +0000

The Nationals are running a Democrats-style split ticket. Brock gets their second preference, then they give voters a choice of Labor or Liberal for third.

Labor are giving their second preference to Brock (not that it should matter) and Brock is giving his second preference to the Nats.

I used to live in Port Pirie and Brock is popular. The combined Brock/Nat vote should go close to pinching second position and therefore possibly winning on preferences.