[naturalman1975]

I think "NAT" is The Nationals -- if I'm reading this right, they're Howard's partners in the Coalition government. We want The Nationals to do well, along with the Liberals.

Exactly - a National Party win is just as good as a Liberal Party win.

Basically Liberals are City Conservatives, Nationals are Country Conservatives.

[naturalman1975]

Big concern at this point is the Green vote - Green preferences could give Labor seats.

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.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

2004 Federal Election Facts & Figures

• Across Australia 13,021,230 electors enrolled to vote.
• Currently 4.38% of the primary vote has been counted.
• The two party preferred count is 2.58% complete.
• Polling place results are not available on election night to optimise system performance.
• The election results and analysis on this website were last updated at 9/10/2004 6:58:00 PM.

House of Representatives National Two Party Preferred Result

Coalition	Votes	Percentage %	Swing %
Liberal/National Coalition	177,697	52.82	+3.26
Australian Labor Party	158,732	47.18	-3.26

Summary of Divisions Won

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

[ozguy]

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