A minor, but potentially very interesting, electoral event will take place in Tasmania on August 1, when voters in the Legislative Council district of Pembroke choose a replacement for outgoing Labor member Allison Ritchie. The Liberal Party’s normal practice of not contesting seats in the Legislative Council makes elections for the chamber, which normally take [...]
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Newspoll: 56-44 to Labor in Victoria
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 – 4:43 am
The latest bi-monthly Victorian Newspoll shows the state Labor government losing some of the support it attracted in the wake of the February bushfires, while still retaining a commanding lead. The two-party figure May-June is 56-44, down from an unsustainable 60-40 in January-February (evidently there was no poll in the interim). John Brumby’s approval rating [...]
Party Time time
Thursday, February 26, 2009 – 3:16 pm
The Poll Bludger’s Queensland election blogging activities will henceforth be conducted at Crikey’s Pineapple Party Time blog, which combines the energies of myself, Possum and Mark Bahnisch of Larvatus Prodeo. My seat-by-seat guide to Queensland’s 89 electorates is coming to the boil, and will hopefully be open for business by tomorrow. Non-Queensland action will of [...]
Newspoll: 59-41
Monday, December 8, 2008 – 10:37 pm
The parliamentary year has ended with a striking result from Newspoll: Labor leads 59-41, up from 55-45 last fortnight, with Kevin Rudd leading Malcolm Turnbull as preferred prime minister 66 per cent (up three) to 19 per cent (down two). Kevin Rudd’s approval rating of 70 per cent is one point shy of his previous [...]
Super size me
Thursday, December 4, 2008 – 3:42 pm
I guess we’re not getting a Morgan poll tomorrow, so a stand-alone post is required to note recent developments. To wit:
• Antony Green has crunched the numbers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest state and territory population figures and concluded that yet another new seat will need to be created in Queensland next year, [...]
Galaxy: 51-49 to Labor in Queensland
Monday, December 1, 2008 – 1:36 pm
A Galaxy survey of 800 voters published in today’s Courier-Mail finds the Queensland Labor and Liberal National parties even on 41 per cent of the vote with the Greens on 10 per cent. Labor leads 51-49 after distribution of preferences. The results at the September 2006 election were 46.9 per cent Labor, 20.1 per cent [...]
Newspoll minus three days
Saturday, November 22, 2008 – 2:17 am
Some tidbits to tide you over through the middle of an agonising week-long federal poll drought.
• Chris Back, who narrowly failed to unseat independent Alfred Cove MP Janet Woollard at the September 6 state election, has been nicely compensated with the Western Australian Senate vacancy created by the retirement of Chris Ellison. It was initially [...]
ACT election live
Saturday, October 18, 2008 – 6:19 pm
11.15pm. A very strong performance by the Greens at the Lyneham booth in Molonglo (29.2 per cent) has been cancelled out by other late booths: the Greens (1.47) now trail the Liberals (2.49) in the hunt for the last quota.
11.07pm. I earlier said a third Labor seat in Ginninderra would go to Dave Peebles, but [...]
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