Labor wins S.A. election

[willedoo]

Current AEC primary vote percentages statewide for the lower house, four leading parties, are  Labor 37.6%, One Nation 22.5%. Liberal 19.4%, Greens 10.0%.

Upper house percentages are Labor 36.9%, One Nation 24.3%, Liberal 17.6%, Greens 10.3%. Fairly consistent across both houses.

Edited 9 hours ago by willedoo

[Jerry_Atrick]

Polls didn't seem too far off. It is an ominous sign for politics. Australia needs a centre right party now - oh wait, that is the ALP at the moment.. Maybe Australia needs a centre left party now. 

 

In the UK, Labour is deemed far enough right that the Greens under the charismatic (to young people) Zak Polanski are courting the unions to switch funding from Labour to the Greens.. and apparently behind closed doors some unions are seriously entertaining the idea. 

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Australia needs a centre right party now - oh wait, that is the ALP at the moment.. Maybe Australia needs a centre left party now. 

Depends on your viewpoint. From where I see it, the ALP is already spanning centre left to centre right. They can't go any further left without bumping into the Greens, but they've broadened a bit to take up some slack left by the Liberals. Liberal and ALP always did overlap somewhat.

 

Regarding the opinion polls, the SA election showed them to be fairly accurate this time.