Saturday, October 13, 2007 – 6:22 pm
Vote
Swing
2PP
Grace Grace (Labor)
50.7
0.2
61.1
Anna Boccabella (Greens)
33.2
14.9
38.9
Mark A. White (Family First)
7.9
Ian Nelson (One Nation)
2.1
Erik Olaf Eriksen
3.2
Ronald Davy
2.8
COUNT
76 %
7.54pm. Wilston added. Labor wins. That’s me done for the evening.
7.43pm. Kelvin Grove added, leaving only Wilston.
7.30pm. St Pauls Terrace booth added.
7.29pm. As for turnout: 14,893 formal votes have been counted compared with 15,698 at the same booths last year.
7.26pm. New [...]
Friday, October 12, 2007 – 5:14 am
The by-election to fill Peter Beattie’s vacancy in the state seat of Brisbane Central will be held tomorrow. With the Liberals sensibly declining to field a candidate, it is unlikely to be terribly exciting, despite inevitable wild talk about the Greens’ chances. The Nationals were at one point making noises about filling the void with [...]
Monday, September 10, 2007 – 3:40 pm
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has announced his intention to retire as of Thursday. He will hand the reins to long-established heir presumptive Anna Bligh, who will follow Carmen Lawrence and Joan Kirner to become Australia’s third female premier. This means a by-election looms in Beattie’s seat of Brisbane Central. While this is hard to get [...]
Saturday, April 1, 2006 – 4:10 pm
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Primary
Swing
2PP
Swing
LABOR
36.8
-10.8
46.6
-8.4
NATIONALS*
42.5
3.7
53.4
8.4
Greens
7.8
-0.1
Others
12.9
7.1
95% COUNTED
* Nationals swings compared with Liberal in 2004
Monday 4.00am. A slightly puzzling article from Jamie Walker and Emma Chalmers in the Courier-Mail (join in the fun and suggest your own alternative title for the paper in comments), which tells us that the swing "is expected to blow out from 7.5 per cent", and [...]
Friday, March 31, 2006 – 3:04 am
Just one more sleep until the April Fools’ Day by-election for the Queensland state seat of Gaven, which as usual will be covered live on this site shortly after polls close at 6pm local time. The campaign period has been well-served for opinion polls, with today’s effort in the Gold Coast Bulletin adding to an [...]
Thursday, March 23, 2006 – 2:55 pm
Voters in the Queensland seat of Gaven will head to the polls next Saturday to replace Labor member Robert Poole, who embarrassed his party when he indulged in a non-business trip to Thailand and informed Premier Peter Beattie he would not be back until June. When Beattie demanded he return immediately, Poole instead chose to [...]
Sunday, March 5, 2006 – 9:52 am
The Poll Bludger has been a bit preoccupied lately, and failed to notice that a Queensland state by-election now looms in the Gold Coast seat of Gaven after Labor MP Robert Poole "chose to resign rather than do as Premier Peter Beattie demanded and return early from a trip to Thailand". The seat would naturally [...]
Saturday, August 20, 2005 – 6:00 pm
In conclusion then, the Poll Bludger’s reputation as a person who gets things right sometimes has taken a hit with what would appear to be dual victories for the Liberals in today’s Queensland by-elections. My defence is that the margin in each case looks to be below 2 per cent, which I have always used [...]
Saturday, August 20, 2005 – 12:00 pm
Ignore me. Former Labor Senator John Black’s number crunching in yesterday’s (print only) Courier Mail is far beyond my powers of sophistication, being based on modelling from marketing company Australian Development Strategies. Apologies to Black for the following acts of larceny, and also for the removal of his Monty Python references. Let’s start with his [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2005 – 3:18 pm
Queensland Labor’s deadline for state election preselection nominations closed this week, requiring MPs to lay their cards on the table with respect to their plans for next term. The harvest of retirees (Nita Cunningham in Bundaberg, Terry Sullivan in Stafford, Jim Fouras in Ashgrove and Lesley Clark in Barron River) would not normally have been [...]
