Who won the national vote ?
Aug 23rd 2010, 10:46 pm
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Who won the national vote ?
Good article.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com....national_vote/
The argument over legitimacy continues. Julia Gillard claims the national two party preferred vote is “the” vote, while Tony Abbot says the primary vote is more important.
Who’s right?
The answer to this question is ...
... easy: it’s Gillard.
Our system of preferential voting is conceptually like the two round one in countries like France. There, a first vote is taken between lots of candidates. Then two weeks later another election is held between the only two viable candidates. Sometimes, as here, the runner up in the first vote wins the second one.
We do something like that but on the same day, on the same piece of paper.
So the answer to which is “the vote” is clear unless you want to pretend we have first past the post like Britain or America.
But we actually can’t say for sure yet who has won the two party preferred vote.
The AEC currently has Labor ahead 50.7 to 49.3. But these are not final figures, and we won’t know them for weeks.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com....national_vote/
The argument over legitimacy continues. Julia Gillard claims the national two party preferred vote is “the” vote, while Tony Abbot says the primary vote is more important.
Who’s right?
The answer to this question is ...
... easy: it’s Gillard.
Our system of preferential voting is conceptually like the two round one in countries like France. There, a first vote is taken between lots of candidates. Then two weeks later another election is held between the only two viable candidates. Sometimes, as here, the runner up in the first vote wins the second one.
We do something like that but on the same day, on the same piece of paper.
So the answer to which is “the vote” is clear unless you want to pretend we have first past the post like Britain or America.
But we actually can’t say for sure yet who has won the two party preferred vote.
The AEC currently has Labor ahead 50.7 to 49.3. But these are not final figures, and we won’t know them for weeks.
