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originally posted on: July 17th 2010

The 2010 Australian Federal Election has been set down for 21st August 2010.

Julia Gillard with the ALP.
versus
Tony Abbott with the Liberal Party.

Originally Posted on Sun Aug 22 2010, 10:36AM

The result of the election so far counted, after preferences, is:
5,023,226 or 50.69% ALP Australian Labor Party
4,887,208 or 49.31% LNP Liberal/National Coalition Party

The numbers of Seats so far is:
71 Australian Labor Party
70 Liberal National Party
1 The Greens
1 CLP - The Territory Party
3 Independent
4 Undecided
150 TOTAL
76 Seats are required for a majority.

The Primary Voting as at 9:30am Sunday 22 August, after 10,968,438 of the total 14,088,260 votes, had been counted was:
Votes Party %
4,464,914 Liberal National Party 43.14%
3,986,298 Australian Labor Party 38.51%
1,183,386 The Greens 11.43%
265,592 Independent 2.57%
227,444 Family First 2.20%
69,770 CDP Christian Party 0.67%
34,784 CLP - The Territory Party 0.34%
22,274 One Nation 0.22%
17,602 Democrats 0.17%
17,628 Liberty and Democracy Party 0.17%
10,220 Secular Party of Australia 0.10%
8,906 Socialist Equality Party 0.09%
8,727 Australian Sex Party 0.08%
6,750 Citizens Electoral Council 0.07%
7,732 Socialist Alliance 0.07%
4,004 DLP - Democratic Labor Party 0.04%
3,141 Australia First Party (NSW) Incorporated 0.03%
3,474 The Climate Sceptics 0.03%
2,439 Non-Custodial Parents Party 0.02%
2,010 Non Affiliated 0.02%
1,252 Building Australia Party 0.01%
1,176 Carers Alliance 0.01%
486 Communist Alliance 0.00%
618,429 INFORMAL VOTES
10,968,438 TOTAL

The three big swings in voters preferences have been

• Greens up by 3.64%
• LNP up by 1.36%
• Labor Down by 4.87%

Originally Posted on Tue Sep 07 2010, 05:15PM

Well, the independents have decided, two have sided with Labor, and one with the Liberal coalition.

Labor with only 5,839,206 votes are now in Government, whilst
Liberal/National coalition with 5,841,471 votes, which is actually 2,265 more than Labor, are still in opposition.

Labor, although with 72 seats plus the backing of 1 Green and 3 independents, face an uphill task of keeping those independents happy at all times, to ensure that they vote alongside them.

The opposition though, with 73 seats although only the backing of one independent, will find keeping the government on their toes much easier with such a small margin.