In Werribee, Labor leads the Liberals by 50.6–49.4, a 10.4% swing to the Liberals since 2022. Liberals (up 3.7%),
Labor (down 16.7%),
independent Paul Hopper (up 8.8%)
Greens (up 0.7%)
Victorian Socialists (up 3.7%)
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Normally the fare rise for 1st January would have been announced by now.
Fair enough the decision may have been delayed by the #VicVotes state election, but given it's usually based on CPI (and inflation has been high this year) I wouldn't be surprised if they are trying to bury the announcement during the Christmas period.
#Melbourne #Victoria #SpringSt #PublicTransport #TakingOutTheTrash
This is interesting, The Age has a tool that allows you to search on specific polling booth results at the recent state election. I’ve attached a screenshot of the booth I voted at in North Melbourne, looks pretty leftie! :)
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Find out how your neighbours voted in the Victorian election - and the suburbs that swung https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/find-out-how-your-neighbours-voted-in-the-victorian-election-and-the-suburbs-that-swung-20221220-p5c7ti.html
Today's blog post is about the Victorian Legislative Council, and how different electoral systems would have produced different seat results. It's a follow-up to a number of posts I did before the election based on 2018 data.
Today's blog post looks at the dropping vote for the major parties at #VicVotes and how that has led to the most disproportional (lower house) result in >50 years. https://www.tallyroom.com.au/50513
So in Victoria’s upper house, the result for parties on the left is:
Labor 15
Greens 4
Legalise Cannabis 2
Animal Welfare 1
That’s a majority, with one to spare. The Liberal/National coalition won 14 seats, and there were 4 other seats each going to a different right-wing party (One Nation, DLP, LDP, Shooters Fishers & Farmers).
Very pleased with this, as Victoria's rotten group voting system in the upper house has disadvantaged the Greens in the past. 4 seats won out of 40 is fair, given the party's roughly 10% first preference vote.
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Greens claim four upper house seats: Electoral commission confirms results https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/renee-heath-wins-seat-electoral-commission-confirms-upper-house-mps-20221212-p5c5ld.html
