New South Wales Legislative Council Elections 2007 Background Paper
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NSW PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY RESEARCH SERVICE New South Wales Legislative Council Elections 2007 by Antony Green Background Paper No 1/09 RELATED PUBLICATIONS • Antony Green, NSW Legislative Council Elections 1995, NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service Background Paper 2/1996 • Antony Green, NSW Legislative Council Elections 1999, NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service Background Paper 2/2000 • Antony Green, NSW Legislative Council Elections 2003, NSW Parliamentary Research Service, Background Paper 8/2003 • Antony Green, 2007 NSW Election: Final Analysis, NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service, Background Paper 1/2008 ISSN 1325-5142 ISBN 978-0-7313-1850-6 April 2009 © 2009 Except to the extent of the uses permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means including information storage and retrieval systems, with the prior written consent from the Librarian, New South Wales Parliamentary Library, other than by Members of the New South Wales Parliament in the course of their official duties. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the New South Wales Parliamentary Library. New South Wales Legislative Council Elections 2007 by Antony Green NSW PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY RESEARCH SERVICE David Clune (MA, PhD, Dip Lib), Manager ...............................................(02) 9230 2484 Gareth Griffith (BSc (Econ) (Hons), LLB (Hons), PhD), Senior Research Officer, Politics and Government / Law.........................(02) 9230 2356 Jason Arditi, (BA, LLB) Research Officer, Law .........................................(02) 9230 2768 Kathryn Simon (BA, LLB (Hons), LLM) Research Officer, Law………. ...(02) 9230 2003 Stewart Smith (BSc (Hons), MELGL), Research Officer, Environment.....(02) 9230 2798 John Wilkinson (MA, PhD), Research Officer, Economics .......................(02) 9230 2006 Information about Research Publications can be found on the Internet at: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/WEB_FEED/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages/LibraryPublication CONTENTS Page Summary....................................................................................................................1 Regional Classification of Electorates........................................................................................2 Section 1 - Summaries of Results Tables 1.1 Summary of Vote by Party ............................................................................................3 1.2 Party Composition of Legislative Council .....................................................................3 1.3 Retiring Legislative Councillors.....................................................................................3 1.4 Detail of Count by Candidate ........................................................................................4 1.5 Summary of Preference Distributions .........................................................................18 1.6 Incidence of Ticket Voting...........................................................................................19 1.7 Register of Group Second Preferences......................................................................20 Section 2 - Legislative Council Results by Electorate Table 2.1 Summary of Council Vote by Region..........................................................................21 2.2 Summary of Council Vote by Electorate .....................................................................22 Section 3 - Summary of Party Vote by Electorate (Ordered by % Vote) Table 3.1 Labor Party..................................................................................................................34 3.2 Liberal / National Party................................................................................................35 3.3 The Greens .................................................................................................................36 3.4 Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) ............................................................37 3.5 The Shooters Party .....................................................................................................38 3.6 Australian Democrats..................................................................................................39 3.7 Australians Against Further Immigration.....................................................................40 3.8 Fishing Party ...............................................................................................................41 3.9 Unity ............................................................................................................................42 3.10 Restore Worker’s Rights .............................................................................................43 3.11 Group A (Carers Care)................................................................................................44 3.12 Horse Riders / Outdoor Recreation.............................................................................45 3.13 Group F (Climate Change Coalition)...........................................................................46 3.14 Human Rights Party....................................................................................................47 3.15 Socialist Alliance .........................................................................................................48 3.16 Save Our Suburbs.......................................................................................................49 3.17 Ungrouped ..................................................................................................................50 3.18 Group M ......................................................................................................................51 3.19 Group H.......................................................................................................................52 3.20 Group D.......................................................................................................................53 3.21 Total Minor Party Vote ................................................................................................54 Section 4 - Comparison of Council and Assembly Vote Table 4.1 Comparison of % Vote by Electorate..........................................................................55 4.2 Comparison of % Vote by Region...............................................................................58 4.3 Difference in Major Party Vote (Labor + Liberal/National) ..........................................59 4.4 Difference in Labor Party Vote....................................................................................60 4.5 Difference in Liberal/National Party Vote....................................................................61 4.6 Difference in Green Vote ............................................................................................62 4.7 Difference in Christian Democratic Party Vote ...........................................................63 4.8 Difference in Australian Democrat Vote......................................................................64 4.9 Difference in Unity Vote ..............................................................................................65 Section 5 - Incidence of ‘Above the line’ Voting by Electorate Table 5.1 Total of all Groups.......................................................................................................66 5.2 Labor Party Ticket Voting............................................................................................67 5.3 Liberal/National Party Ticket Voting............................................................................68 5.4 Total Non-Major Party Ticket Voting...........................................................................69 5.5 Informal Voting............................................................................................................70 Abbreviations .. Zero or rounded to zero AAFI Australians Against Further Immigration ALP Australian Labor Party CDP Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) DEM Australian Democrats FP Fishing Party GPA Group A (Unregistered Party – Carers Care) GPD Group D GPF Group F (Unregistered Party – Climate Change Coalition) GPH Group H GPM Group M GRN The Greens HRP Human Rights Party HR/ORP Horse Riders / Outdoor Recreation Party IND Independents LIB Liberal Party LNP Liberal / National Party NAT National Party NPP No Privatisation People’s Party OTH Others RWR Restore Worker’s Rights SA Socialist Alliance SOS Save Our Suburbs SP Shooters Party UNG Ungrouped Candidates UNI Unity Acknowledgments I would like to thank NSW Electoral Commissioner, Mr Colin Barry and the staff of the State Electoral Office for their assistance in providing election results for the production of this publication. The Author Antony Green is an Election Analyst with ABC-Television, and has worked for the ABC on every state and federal election coverage since 1989. He also writes regularly on electoral matter for the Sydney Morning Herald. Antony studied at Sydney University, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computing, and a Bachelor of Economics with Honours in politics. Antony has prepared numerous publications for the Parliamentary Library on election, redistributions and other electoral matters. NSW Legislative Council Election 2007 Summary This paper summarises the results of the 2007 election for