Closer than we thought. Election insight By Guy Rundle - of Crikey.au IT [the election] was a total repudiation of the Labor Party.” Wrong. The two-party preferred vote was 53.5% to 46.5%, a serious enough margin in Australian politics. But the effect of two-party preferred in a single-member system is to amplify the gap. The previous vote was more or less 50:50. The 2013 result is the equivalent of one Labor two-party preferred voter in 16 changing his vote. That’s being made out as if it were on the level of say the ANC’s 63% vote in South Africa 1994, or Ramos-Horta’s 70% vote in East Timor’s first election. Those are expressions of a substantial public will—53.5-46.5 ain’t.
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:53:40 +0000
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