Yesterday I went through and added a lot more candidates to the electorate profiles, and the same candidates were added to the online candidates spreadsheet.
The total number for the House of Representatives is now up to 729.
The largest surge was thanks to an increase in the number of Katter candidates (now up to 46) and the filling of the winnable Labor seats vacated by former ministers (Perth, Kingsford Smith, Lalor, Hotham, Rankin, Charlton). Labor also chose a new candidate in Bennelong.
The ALP now has candidates in all but thirteen electorates. A Coalition candidate is running in every electorate.
Every electorate has at least two candidates running. The Coalition seats of Flinders, Moncrieff and Parkes are the only seats left with only two candidates.
There are also four electorates with at least eight candidates running: Fairfax, Indi, Newcastle and Throsby.
View the online candidates spreadsheet here.
It’s an excellent list.
There’s quite a few more candidates on Antony’s site now, including a bunch of CDP and Family First candidates who don’t have listings on their party websites yet. I think your list is still bigger though.
It looks like the record number of lower house candidates was 1109 in 1998
http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2010/07/summary-of-nominations.html
Great list.
What is indicated by your “Link” column, is this a personal website?
We now need a column for NBN rollout preference – FTTH or FTTN.
Ben for candidates / parties that have run previously is there anywhere you can view their 2010 preference cards – both HoR and Senate? I’ve checked AEC to no avail.
@Nev, the ‘link’ column simply indicates whether I’ve included a link to that candidate on my website. I’ve used these spreadsheets for numerous elections and they allow me to track which candidates I’ve posted without having to check every page. The link information is for my own purposes.
@Peter – you can check out their party websites from the 2010 election at the National Library of Australia’s Pandora web archive.
Some HTVs are posted on the Election Leaflets website. You have to select the 2010 election at the top.
@Peter you can see the Senate group voting tickets from 2010 under ‘Group Voting Tickets’ on this page
http://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/SenateResultsMenu-15508.htm
Are we anticipating ALP candidates in the remaining seats?
They will run in every seat.
We can reduce that tally of seats with no announced Labor candidate by two. The WA Labor website now names their candidates for Forrest – John Borlini, and Pearce – Madeleine West.
http://walabor.org.au/fedcandidates
Wikileaks Party has 3 Senate candidates in Vic, 2 in NSW and 2 in WA. I think if Assange cant take his seat if elected (in UK) then under the AEC rules the 2nd candidate on a party ticket is then elected. Correct me if I am wrong.
Wikileaks Senate candidates are:
Victoria – Julian Assange, Leslie Cannold and Binoy Kampmark.
NSW – Kellie Tranter and Alison Broinowski.
WA – Gerry Georgatos and Suresh Rajan.
Hi Adrian – yes, I’m aware of the other candidates – however for the sake of clarity I am only posting the names of lead candidates for all parties other than the Labor and Liberal (or joint Coalition) tickets.
OK. Leslie Cannold is well know in Melbourne too
It is hard to imagine a scenario in which Wikileaks party will get a seat – getting reasonable state wide coverage of booths is a big ask, particularly when you are not running lower house candidates – and it undoubtedly makes a difference in maximizing your party vote to have people out on the ground.
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