The long-forgotten Australian Capital Territory election of October 16 now has its very own page, in which the blog coverage from that period has been gathered together, updated and smartened up.
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Category Archives: ACT Election 2004
ACT Election wash-up
Saturday, October 16, 2004 – 9:00 pm
Labor looks to have won the first-ever absolute majority in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, appearing set for nine or 10 seats in the 17-seat chamber. While the Democrats predictably collapsed, the Greens hardly improved at all and can only be confident of winning one seat, that being the one they held already in [...]
ACT Election: Conclusion
Saturday, October 16, 2004 – 4:00 pm
A word about that Canberra Times poll. The sample of 327 isn’t much, but it’s not completely useless and even the extreme end of its margin of error is still good news for Labor. After allocation of the undecided it has Labor on 55 per cent, Liberal on 30 per cent and the Greens on [...]
ACT Election: Molonglo
Saturday, October 16, 2004 – 3:00 pm
Taking in the central part of Canberra, Molonglo returns seven rather than five members and has a lower quota of 12.5 rather than 16.67 per cent. Voters in the electorate have backed the Liberals and the Greens in slightly higher numbers than elsewhere at each of the three elections under the current system. Labor enters [...]
ACT Election: Ginninderra
Saturday, October 16, 2004 – 12:00 pm
Ginninderra covers the northern part of Canberra, including Belconnen and Nicholls. Its voting habits have been little different from those at the other end of town in Brindabella (the other five-member electorate), except that Labor didn’t quite get over the line to win a third seat here in 2001. It instead was taken by Roslyn [...]
ACT Election: Brindabella
Friday, October 15, 2004 – 12:00 pm
The electorate of Brindabella covers the rural areas in the south of the Territory and outer southern Canberra including Tuggeranong. Five members are to be elected under the Hare-Clark system, with a quota of 16.67 required for election. It is only compulsory for voters to number one candidate for each vacancy (so five in Brindabella [...]
ACT Election Overview
Thursday, October 14, 2004 – 12:00 pm
The Australian Capital Territory goes to the polls for the second week in a row this Saturday to elect a new 17-member Legislative Assembly. Chief Minister Jon Stanhope’s Labor Party currently governs with eight members and the consent of one Green and one Democrat. The balance consists of six Liberals and one ex-Liberal independent. The [...]
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