Saturday, June 28, 2008 – 6:03 pm
Vote
Swing
2PP
Marlene Kairouz (Labor)
12,665 49.0%
-13.9%
56.3
Les Twentyman (Independent)
5,108 19.8%
-
43.7
Jenny Matic (Liberal)
5,345 20.7%
5.2%
Marcus Power (Greens)
1,297 5.0%
-2.2%
Tania Walters (Independent)
1,093 4.2%
-8.1%
Andre Kozlowski (CEC)
334 1.3%
-0.8%
Tuesday 6pm. I am reliably informed that the Victorian Electoral Commission has conducted an unpublished Labor-versus-Liberal preference count which puts Labor at 71.5 per cent. So the real swing against Labor was only 4.1 per cent, a good result for a third term [...]
Thursday, June 26, 2008 – 9:15 pm
The campaign for Saturday’s state by-election in the Melbourne seat of Kororoit, initiated by the retirement of one-time Police Minister Andre Haermeyer, did not at first seem a matter of great interest. Located in the rock-solid Labor outer western suburbs, from northern St Albans out to Caroline Springs, the seat was won by Haermeyer at [...]
Saturday, September 15, 2007 – 5:13 pm
ALBERT PARK
RAW
ADJUSTED
Vote
Swing
Vote
2PP
Martin Foley (Labor)
47.3
5.1
46.1
59.0
John Middleton (Greens)
27.8
9.1
28.2
41.0
Cameron Eastman (Family First)
4.8
3.8
Adrian Jackson (Independent)
1.0
-0.2
Shane McCarthy (DLP)
1.8
Paul Kavanagh (Democrats)
4.7
Prodos Marinakis (Independent)
5.4
John Dobinson (Independent)
0.8
Nigel Strauss (Independent)
6.5
COUNT
78 %
.
9.55pm. Long-delayed final two-party booth for Albert Park now in, Labor’s 2PP on 57.7 per cent.
9.12pm. Postal votes now added.
8.49pm. Turnout in Albert Park not too bad: 25,669 polling booth votes cast (including informal) [...]
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 – 7:20 pm
The last thing a dedicated election-watcher needs right now is state by-elections, but that is what fate has delivered us following the retirement in late July of Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and his deputy John Thwaites. Voters in their respective electorates of Williamstown and Albert Park will go to the polls on Saturday in contests [...]
Friday, July 27, 2007 – 4:03 pm
A black swan day in Victorian politics, with the wholly unheralded news that Premier Steve Bracks and Deputy Premier John Thwaites are calling it a day. Whither the Victorian government? Not my concern (not until 2010, anyway). What matters here is that two by-elections will soon be upon us. The Liberals could be forgiven for [...]
