According to the ABC’s Senate Election calculator, these are the seven ‘others’ who will be joining the Greens and Senator John Madigan of the DLP on the Senate cross-benches in the new parliament.
| Party | Candidate & State | 1st Preferences (%) | Quotasi | Countsii |
| Australian Motoring Enthusiasts Party | Ricky Muir (VIC) | 0.52 | 0.04 | 35 |
| Australian Sports Party | Wayne Dropulich (WA) | 0.22 | 0.02 | 27 |
| Family First | Bob Day (SA) | 3.76 | 0.26 | 31 |
| Liberal Democratic Party | David Leyonhjelm (NSW) | 8.88 | 0.62 | 43 |
| Nick Xenophon Group | Nick Xenophon (SA)iii | 25.8 | 1.8 | 1 |
| Palmer United Party | Glenn Lazarus (QLD) | 10.3 | 0.72 | 35 |
| Jacqui Lambie (TAS) | 6.92 | 0.48 | 25 |
ii The number of counts the ABC’s Senate election calculator predicts it will take to achieve the result after preference distribution.
iii Since he was elected on first preferences, Nick Xenophon doesn’t really count as a Senate Lotto winner.
- http://vtr.aec.gov.au/SenateResultsMenu-17496.htm[↩]
Christine Milne will be disappointed that the Greens have lost BOP
Really, Gummo, you should go the whole hog. Just rename preference harvesting as ‘preference smuggling’ and you can issue dramatic calls to break the business model of the preference smugglers.
I downloaded the Group Tickets from the AEC in csv format so I could do a bit of analysis – so far no sigh of a business model, I’m afraid. Maybe the Coalition could tackle the BOP issue with a vote buy back fund.