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CW: #auspol Psephology rather than polical issues, about vote counting in SA election
Antony Green has a very informative post on the long awaited outcome of the South Australia Legislative Council election. https://antonygreen.com.au/sa2026-legislative-council-result-declared/
There's a lot of exhausted votes, but on the other hand a return to Group Voting tickets is not a good idea, so I think that is something we are stuck with.
Meanwhile I can see that while personally I filled in every box below the line, my vote never progressed beyond my number 1 and failed to elect anyone! I do appreciate that this is how it works though, at the end of the count there are always going to be votes left with an unelected candidate.
I do wonder how many exhausted votes included the requested 6 choices above the line and just didn't include either Labor or Greens, or if they voted for fewer than 6 (perhaps only 1) party. #Adelaide #SAVotes #auspol -
CW: #auspol Psephology rather than polical issues, about vote counting in SA election
Antony Green has a very informative post on the long awaited outcome of the South Australia Legislative Council election. https://antonygreen.com.au/sa2026-legislative-council-result-declared/
There's a lot of exhausted votes, but on the other hand a return to Group Voting tickets is not a good idea, so I think that is something we are stuck with.
Meanwhile I can see that while personally I filled in every box below the line, my vote never progressed beyond my number 1 and failed to elect anyone! I do appreciate that this is how it works though, at the end of the count there are always going to be votes left with an unelected candidate.
I do wonder how many exhausted votes included the requested 6 choices above the line and just didn't include either Labor or Greens, or if they voted for fewer than 6 (perhaps only 1) party. #Adelaide #SAVotes #auspol -
CW: #auspol Psephology rather than polical issues, about vote counting in SA election
Antony Green has a very informative post on the long awaited outcome of the South Australia Legislative Council election. https://antonygreen.com.au/sa2026-legislative-council-result-declared/
There's a lot of exhausted votes, but on the other hand a return to Group Voting tickets is not a good idea, so I think that is something we are stuck with.
Meanwhile I can see that while personally I filled in every box below the line, my vote never progressed beyond my number 1 and failed to elect anyone! I do appreciate that this is how it works though, at the end of the count there are always going to be votes left with an unelected candidate.
I do wonder how many exhausted votes included the requested 6 choices above the line and just didn't include either Labor or Greens, or if they voted for fewer than 6 (perhaps only 1) party. #Adelaide #SAVotes #auspol -
CW: this is the system working as it should
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Independent candidate Lou Nicholson has won the South Australian seat of Finnis. She finished in fourth place in the primary vote with 18%. However, preference flows enabled her to win ahead of the Liberal candidate in the final count.
Antony Green has all the details:
https://antonygreen.com.au/sa2026-finniss-will-a-candidate-win-from-fourth-place/
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Liberal party preferences handed seats to One Nation in South Australian election, analysts say.
Captain Obvious reporting
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#SAvotes Every election someone reads into preferences as if they are tea leaves and discerns some sort of scam that isn't there. I was bracing for the conspiracy theories from One Nation supporters (and I'm sure they're still coming), but in the meantime a bunch of people are making a big fuss over the ONP how to vote and the SA savings provisions.
It's not that complicated. The ONP how to vote is an open ticket. It tells people to number 1 for ONP and then number the others (some people are saying it directs voters to only number 1 - you can see them here to see that this isn't true https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/component/content/article/2026-state-election-candidates?catid=12:elections&Itemid=996 )
Anyone who has paid attention to any election ever before knows about open tickets, and those pretending ONP are doing something uniquely nefarious are being completely disingenuous.There is a simple reason for open tickets - sometimes candidates hope to draw voters from multiple other parties, particularly both majors, and don't want to alienate some by showing a high preference for the one they don't like.
There is a conspiracy theory that they wanted voters to vote just 1 so that the savings provisions let them control their preferences. This is beyond stupid. They don't care about preferences they want your number 1 so that they win. This is true of all parties, nobody uses how to votes because they desperately care about who your lower preferences go to, they just want undecided voters who might only consider HTVs to choose them, or to make it easier for undecided voters who have already decided to cast a vote for them.
There are plenty of reasons to dislike and object to One Nation, I understand this, I even went to the trouble of numbering every box below the line in the Leg Co to put Cory last, but this is a pointless and stupid distraction which is trying to delegitimise a perfectly fine feature of our voting system.
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Antony Green's analysis of the SA election result:
It was a disaster for the Liberal Party, but the rising vote for One Nation was also a warning for Labor
https://antonygreen.com.au/sa2026-some-early-observations-on-the-result/
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CW: Auspol, SAvotes
I went through the mugshots of the two-party-preferred candidates in the South Australia election, and without exception they are white.
South Australia’s not that white, is it? What’s going on here? I mean yes, One Nation, but even the Labor candidates.
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The #moron is strong in these ones. #auspol
#OneNation's support has soared in #SouthAustralia, and #SAvotes explain their reasons.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-23/sa-voters-explain-why-they-backed-one-nation/106483486
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CW: Auspol - SA Votes
Another example of this propaganda from Seven News Australia:
#Auspol #SAPol #SAVotesLabor won over 45 seats (24 needed to win) and they absolutely demolished the Liberals who have won fewer than 10.
One Nation (Australian MAGA) might be in with a chance for one, maybe two seats.
Seven News ran this story promoting One Nation as some incredible accomplishment from Pauline Hanson with a banner throughout celebrating that an “ORANGE TSUNAMI STRIKES”
America has taught them well.
One Nation surges in South Australian election landslide | 7NEWS
~ 7NEWS Australia
[5:24min propaganda video disguised as news]
https://youtu.be/8YCZD3DZI34 -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@skua/116270141125531941
Anyone else catch the #SouthAustralia #Liberal leader talk about her son - Rupert?
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CW: Auspol - SA Votes
#auspol #SAPol #SAVotes
Murdoch media have their eyes on the next federal election. This is what continuous campaigning looks like. Murdoch is destroying the LNP and will pour more money into promoting One Nation than any other party in Australia could possibly afford. This is how fascism takes hold in Australia. -
#SAvotes there's a lot of people trying to mock ONP for having zero seats due to the current ABC count. This feels like the same mistake that has been made numerous times in judging the Greens results on election night, when they have gone on to win more seats.
ONP have 2 seats in the upper house and maybe a third. They are looking increasingly solid in Mackillop, and have two other firm possibilities. So it looks like they will get 3-6 seats. Still not a lot overall, but certainly way better than any other third party is SA for as long as I can remember (and probably a fair bit longer than that).
In many seats they will be in the 2 party count. They have gone a long way to replacing the Liberals.
RIght now Labor are very popular, history tells us that won't last, so what happens when people turn against Labor? Who will get the votes?
Dismissing ONP as irrelevant in light of this result doesn't seem like a good strategy to me. -
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CW: Election ponderings and realistic political spectrum
I'd love to be able to sneak a #political #policy questionnaire into the next #Australian #Census to get a real gauge on where people fall on the political spectrum. I suspect it would look a lot different to how people vote at #elections.
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@luciedigitalni Lots of people who would usually have voted Liberal seem to have voted PHON instead. I don't think it's unreasonable to call that a "shift to the right".
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Malinauskas telling people "to celebrate capital as well as labour" is everything you need to know about what the ALP has become.
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CW: Auspol - SA Votes
It’s difficult to articulate the devastation of the Liberal Party in South Australia tonight.
I mean, how do they think they’re going to form a shadow cabinet with 4-5 seats?
LMFAO
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There is some good news for #SouthAustralia #LiberalParty - they can put up 2 teams in a 3 legged race #auspol #SApol #SAvotes
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CW: Auspol - SA Votes
Across the state, people have rejected the two usual parties. Make no mistake, Labor have won in a landslide, but they can’t ignore the fact that their vote across the state has fallen by one and a half points. And loyal members of the Liberal and National Parties must be feeling pretty irrelevant right now, with the Libs down by a massive 17 points!
One Nation has picked up almost nineteen points while the Greens gained about the one and a half points that Labor lost.
These numbers are a bit concerning given how they may translate in the next federal election, with the prospect of more One Nation Senators in the Upper House.
Given the support for, and airtime given to, One Nation by the Murdoch media, the increase in their vote probably shouldn’t come as a surprise. Pro-One Nation media has been all over Meta social media, usually promoted by News.com.au, and commercial television networks, Seven, Nine, and Ten.
Despite the huge swing to One Nation, it would seem that they accomplished this by taking the vote from the Liberals, possibly helped by the defections of the likes of Cory Bernardi, James Ashby, and Barnaby Joyce, who are all big names in Australian right-wing politics.
I’m still pleased by how devastated the Liberal and National Parties have become, though a little apprehensive about a Labor government that has every chance to do great things, but will probably continue to be Liberal Lite.
There is some hope!
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#BrownGirl dedicated to whatever remains of the #SaLiberalParty #auspol #SAvotes #SApol
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Sigh.
I guess I’ll have to endure watching #Insiders to see the panel try to explain away the massive #LiberalParty collapse.
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The South Australia Election 2026 is all over bar the shouting. As predicted, it's a landslide for Labor. The Liberal Party in South Australia are charmless, ineffective, and lacking in leadership, so it's fitting that people are making comparisons with their performance in state elections in Western Australia and Victoria.
Humble brag and a shout-out of appreciation for the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA) and Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) for running the election process so smoothly and quickly. It's wonderful to see a result take shape in as little as an hour or two after voting centres close, and I feel they're independent and impartial; this situation is quite unlike some other countries that claim to be a democracy.
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#SApol #LiberalParty talking head on #ABC is quoting #JohnHoward AKA #TheKissOfDeath
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Hey #AI I need an election poster picture of #ChrisPicton as a teenager 😆
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I'm getting the sense that #TheGreens are going to scoop a lot of new voters in this weekend's #SAVotes #Election because the major parties are quite simply promise-breakers, xenophobes or rubbish respectively
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What happens when the right-wing religious faction takes over the entire party...
#saparli #savotes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDDm4A9GvXc&t=341s