The Parliamentary Library has finally released a report I’ve been waiting days to read – the link on their site kept leading to the dreaded 404 Error, but finally it now has a file attached to it.
Federal election results 1901–2007. (415KB PDF File)
Here’s the table of contents to get the gist of it.
Election dates ………………………………………………………………………… 2
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………3
Statistical highlights of the elections ………………………………………………. 4
Comments on individual elections ……………………………………………………5
Tables ………………………………………………………………………………….. 17
Party abbreviations and symbols ……………………………………………………. 17
Detailed results: House of Representatives ………………………………………. 18
Detailed results: Senate …………………………………………………………….. 60
State summaries: House of Representatives 1901–2007 …………………………100
State summaries: Senate 1901–2007 ………………………………………………118
Two-party preferred votes: House of Representatives 1949–2007 ……………136
Senate compositions 1901–2007 ……………………………………………………138
Informal votes: House of Representatives 1901–2007 ………………………….. 142
Informal votes: Senate 1901–2007 ………………………………………………….143
Turnout: House of Representatives 1901–2007 …………………………………….144
Turnout: Senate 1901–2007 ………………………………………………………….145
Sources ………………………………………………………………………………….146
So, many thanks to Stephen Barber, Christopher Lawley, Scott Bennett and Gerard Newman for writing the damn thing!
For something not so cool, or rather not so cool if you’re a Liberal party supporter – has everyone noticed that the prime backbench seat positioned right behind the Opposition Leader’s dispatch box in Parliament – the seat that gives (usually) very key marginal seat holders free exposure and publicity every time someone either watches Question Time or sees a soundbite from it on the nightly news – is now filled by Michael Johnson rather than Judi Moylan?
Johnson holds what is supposed to be the blue ribbon Liberal seat of Ryan in Qld. Liberal party polling up here must be pretty shithouse to have to put Johnson in that spot (he’s the ugly mug on the left behind Joe Hockey)
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hmm – moving the cursor over the vid, you get a box saying “khemlanij”… so somebody else has noticed the connection between Nazi Barbie’s obsession with petrodollar financing of infrastructure and the Loans Affair of ‘73/’74. Maybe the Petro dollars she ought to be worrying about are those of one of her compadres?
DR, Michael Johnson used to be called Khemlani Johnson by Crikey many moons ago because of his, er.. interesting branch membership capabilities – way back in 2006 I think. For some reason it just got stuck in my head when I had to name that image I grabbed from the aph.gov.au QT video feed.
ah – thanks for clearing that up… never heard of the bloke before so didn’t know that story. Still, the ghost of Khemlani haunts many, though for different reasons.
Poss, could we have that report archived somewhere? It seems like the sort of thing you would want to dip into rather than read in one sitting, and new readers might like access to it.
Speaking of things “Not so cool” was I the only one to receive a “breaking news” email from The Tele today with the subject “Premier Morris Iemma quits”? They’re bloody quick there at the Tele, only took them 4 months.
Screenshot – http://australiavotes2007.blogspot.com/2008/12/just-received-braking-news-email-from.html
Also I had a 20-30 minute read through that PDF earlier. It’s quite interesting.
What, no seat-by-seat figures, with full distribution of preferences? No full count-out of Senate preferences? If you want that data (and you know you do), it seems there is still only one place to get it
http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/