Today we saw the conclusion of the count in Tasmania’s electorates, with all five electorates now finalised.
Results in Franklin and Bass were reasonably decisive, with Labor MPs David O’Byrne and Brian Wightman losing their seats to the Liberal Party.
In Lyons, former Labor MP David Llewellyn won back his seat, while the Greens’ Tim Morris lost his seat to the Liberal Party.
In the northern seat of Braddon, the ALP’s Brenton Best narrowly missed out for the final seat and the Greens’ Paul O’Halloran also lost his seat, resulting in an unprecedented four seats for the Liberal Party, a result not seen since the reduction in seats in 1998.
In the southern seat of Denison, there was no change to party representation, but the ALP’s second seat was left open with the retirement of Graeme Sturges, and all four non-incumbent Labor candidates were in with a chance. Madeleine Ogilvie narrowly won the seat ahead of Julian Amos.
This produced a final result of 15 Liberal, 7 Labor and 3 Greens. This is a solid majority for the Liberal Party, and also results in loss of parliamentary party status for the Greens.
In South Australia, the election night result of 23 Labor, 22 Liberal and 2 Greens held through late counting. After independent MP Bob Such was admitted to hospital for an indefinite period, independent MP Geoff Brock decided to support the ALP to continue in government, recognising that both independents would need to support the Liberal Party to achieve stable government.
This is the last word for the South Australian and Tasmanian elections for this blog. I’ll be covering the Western Australian Senate by-election next Saturday, April 5, and you can read the guide for the by-election (including sub-pages for all 15 electorates in Western Australia), and comment on any of the pages.
Beyond that, I’m close to finishing my maps for all 88 Victorian electorates for the November state election. On April 17, the final boundaries for the New Zealand general election will be released, and I will start work on that election guide, and I plan to have both ready to go well in advance of those elections.
While I work on these projects, you may notice less activity on the Tally Room, but be assured that I will be working hard in the background to get ready for the next campaign.
Thanks for all your hard work and analysis Ben!
Excellent work as usual Mr. Raue, thank you! 🙂
Another thing to keep your eye on: a week after the WA senate election, there’s a by-election in the NT. Terry Mills, who lasted about a year between winning govt and getting the Gillard maneuver, has now resigned. His seat is so safe for the CLP it even stayed blue in the 2005 extermination of Darwin Libs, but it’s a by-election and this is the NT, so you never know.
And if you get really bored, there’s a provincial election in Quebec (also in April). You probably need to speak French to understand it properly, but it’s interesting to watch. They’ve got a very fluid party system – Liberals (which might be a different thing in Montreal or Ottawa), the Parti Quebecois (provincial cousin of the Bloc Quebecois, who got destroyed at the last national election in favour of the NDP), and whichever right-wing party does well this time.
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