This Year's Likely Senate Lotto Winners

Posted in Politics - national

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

i Figures for percentages of the primary vote and quotas are taken from the AEC website[http://vtr.aec.gov.au/SenateResultsMenu-17496.htm]

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.

3 Comments

  1. Lolita

    Christine Milne will be disappointed that the Greens have lost BOP

  2. Alan

    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.

    • Paul Bamford (aka Gummo T)

      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.