Exactly - a National Party win is just as good as a Liberal Party win.
Basically Liberals are City Conservatives, Nationals are Country Conservatives.
Nick Minchin (Liberal Minister) thinks a hung parliament (neither party having an absolute majority) is the best result Labor can hope for.
Prime Ministers own seat may be in some very slight danger - slight possibility (very slight) that we could end up with a Liberal government, with the Prime Minister having to leave because he didn't get elected himself.
Coalition | Votes | Percentage % | Swing % |
---|---|---|---|
Liberal/National Coalition | 177,697 | 52.82 | +3.26 |
Australian Labor Party | 158,732 | 47.18 | -3.26 |
Party | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | National | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
This Election | Last Election | |||||||||
Australian Labor Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 65 |
Liberal | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 68 |
The Nationals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
CLP - The Territory Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Doubtful | 49 | 34 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 142 | 0 |
TOTAL | 50 | 37 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 150 | 150 |
COUNTED % | 1.34 | 1.65 | 1.32 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 60.51 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 2.58 |
Analysts on both ABC and Channel 9 saying already there is a swing to the coaltion
Beginning to look hard for Labor to gain necessary seats for victory