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Question: Self-explanatory
#1
Liberal
 
#2
Labor
 
#3
National
 
#4
Greens
 
#5
Palmer United
 
#6
Liberal Democrats
 
#7
Family First
 
#8
Xenophon Group
 
#9
Democratic Labor
 
#10
Katter's Australian
 
#11
Australian Liberty Alliance
 
#12
Socialist Alliance
 
#13
Australian Motoring Enthusiast
 
#14
Independent
 
#15
Other
 
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Total Voters: 47

Author Topic: Australia 2016 - How would/will you vote?  (Read 624 times)
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Anton Kreitzer
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E: 8.00, S: 3.11

« on: April 22, 2016, 11:03:51 AM »

Listed all of the parties that won a seat in either house last election, plus a couple of others on the fringes of the left and right (SA and ALA respectively).

Me: Family First, after voting Liberal in 2010 and 2013. Still preferencing Liberal over Labor (would still put Liberal as #1 in some divisions), and also preferencing the Nationals and Liberal Democrats highly.
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Anton Kreitzer
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E: 8.00, S: 3.11

« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2016, 07:41:39 PM »

By preference order:
Green
Socialist Alliance
Katter
Labor
LDP
Xenophon
DLP
AMEP
Palmer
Liberal
Nationals
Australian Liberty Alliance
Family First

If you don't mind me asking, why ALA over FF?
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Anton Kreitzer
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E: 8.00, S: 3.11

« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2016, 05:42:43 AM »

Liberal if I lived in a swing riding, One Nation otherwise.

Australia has compulsory preferences, so you can put One Nation first and the Liberals second, and your vote would still go to the Liberals.

For the House: Labor or Greens depending on the local candidates; although always preferencing Labor over the coalition parties.  If there was a more left-wing independent or minor party candidate standing then I might throw them my first preference to help them retain their deposit since that's probably very helpful for some of the smaller parties

For the senate with the new voting system I might chuck a preference or two to more left-wing minor parties before going Greens/Labor for the same reason; although perhaps that's less likely for the Upper House because preference order is a lot more important for STV elections than it is for AV; even in Australia's weird version of STV.


I thought that the Democrats had died out?  They certainly had their place as the third party with the balance of power in the Senate taken by the Greens...

Yes, the Democrats are officially dead, they were de-registered by the AEC last year for not showing they had at least 500 members. Most Democrats became members of the Greens, and the Greens basically took a lot of their voters in the 2000s.
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