7.51pm. The NSWEC has all but a few booths in from Port Macquarie, and you can now clearly call it for Peter Besseling, who leads the Nationals candidate 36.8 per cent to 31.9 per cent. Elsewhere it’s clear the results are as expected: a big win for the Liberals in Ryde, and narrower wins for [...]
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NSW by-elections minus one day
Friday, October 17, 2008 – 7:01 pm
The Labor government in New South Wales is bracing itself for a fearsome backlash at three of tomorrow’s four state by-elections, in the Labor held seats of Ryde, Cabramatta and Lakemba. It will be spared such embarrassment in Port Macquarie only by virtue of the fact that it is not running a candidate. Here it [...]
Taverner: 64-36 to Liberal in Ryde
Sunday, October 12, 2008 – 4:14 am
Today’s Sun Herald brings us a poll of 500 respondents in Ryde, one of four New South Wales state seats which face a by-election next Saturday. It points to a 24 per cent two-party swing against Labor and an easy win for Liberal candidate Victor Dominello – a barely believable result in normal circumstances, but [...]
By-election bloodbaths
Sunday, November 27, 2005 – 1:31 am
The Pittwater by-election stands as a disaster of historic magnitude both for the New South Wales Liberal Party, which has lost its third-safest seat, and for the Poll Bludger, who has lost $25. Apologies are due to Alex McTaggart and to various journalists whose prescient remarks about the Liberals’ troubles received short shrift on this [...]
Pittwater by-election live
Saturday, November 26, 2005 – 11:19 am
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McTaggart
Nicolaou
CDP
IND
GRN
DEM
Primary
40.2
38.2
8.2
6.0
7.5
0.9
Swing
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-22.3
+5.3
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-6.5
-1.2
Two-Candidate
56.1%
43.9%
82% COUNTED
8.36pm. News report on ABC Online.
8.32pm. The last reporting booth, Avalon (the electorate’s second biggest), has added insult to injury - the only booth with a primary vote majority for McTaggart, his two-candidate vote was 65.6 per cent. His overall raw two-candidate vote is now up to 55.9 per cent, so it seems my [...]
Pittwater dispatches
Thursday, November 24, 2005 – 10:53 pm
Those with a particular interest in Saturday’s Pittwater by-election are encouraged to drop by to this site after 6pm EST, from which time the numbers will be crunched booth-by-booth within seconds of their appearance on the State Electoral Office site (for some idea of how this will look, see the coverage of the triple M [...]
Purported Pittwater party polling
Friday, November 18, 2005 – 3:53 pm
Reports of "leaked" internal Liberal polling for next Saturday’s Pittwater by-election have provoked a frisson of excitement among those with an interest in talking up the contest. The poll reportedly has Liberal candidate Paul Nicolaou trailing his most fancied independent rival, local mayor Alex McTaggart, with a 46.5-53.5 split on two-candidate preferred. The results were [...]
Pittwater form guide
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 – 3:38 pm
The campaign for Saturday week’s Pittwater by-election limps on uneventfully, although some observers remain excited at the prospect of John Brogden’s demise causing a backlash sufficient to endanger the Liberal candidate, former party fund raiser Paul Nicolaou. Local ratepayers association types have been penning letters to the editor and badgering suburban newspaper journalists to vent [...]
Pittwater preselection puts Paul in pole position
Sunday, October 30, 2005 – 8:49 am
The New South Wales Liberal Party has followed the Poll Bludger’s orders and chosen Paul Nicolaou as its candidate for the November 26 Pittwater by-election. Former state and federal MP Stephen Mutch withdrew from the race late last week, presumably after concluding that he didn’t have the numbers, and Nicolaou prevailed over John Brogden staffer [...]
Mutch ado about something
Monday, October 17, 2005 – 3:57 pm
The Liberal Party’s preselection for the Pittwater by-election has taken an interesting turn with the nomination of former Federal MP Stephen Mutch, who if successful could conjure an interesting election from what ought to be a straightforward Liberal walkover. Mutch threw his hat into the ring last week at a time when the preselection was [...]
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