America is a country with two electorates.
Although National's performance had improved in the election by winning an additional six electorates, Labour was still in government and there were discussions about replacing Hamilton.
The 17-member Legislative Assembly is elected by proportional preferential voting in three electorates for a three-year term.
Even more inconveniently, of the bottom ten electorates by median household income, nine are held by the Coalition (Hinkler, Cowper, Lyne, Page, Lyons, Mallee, Wide Bay, Braddon and Grey).
Labor's vote dropped in four of five electorates, by about 1% in the southern electorates of Brindabella and Murrumbidgee, and by smaller amounts in Ginninderra and Kurrajong.
By dividing its vote evenly between these two candidates on Election Day, the electorate said that there is no significant difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
It's been clear for months, however, that these two groups make up, at most, about forty per cent of the electorate.
"There has not been a federal one-term government since 1931 … and in 2010 Tony pulled off a miracle only to be betrayed by two independents whose electorates thought they were voting for independents who would back the Liberals in a hung parliament".
Fourteen thousand potential participants were selected randomly from the Electoral Roll, sampling from two federal electorates in the northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
Why can't these three realise that in a democracy the electorate must have a choice.
