Brindabella, Ginninderra and Molonglo. By CRISPIN HULL Opposition Kate Carnell out-polled Chief Minister Rosemary Follett 20 booths to 11 in the central seat of Molonglo. Ms Follett took only two southside booths: Oaks Estate and Lyons. The booth-by-booth figures were issued by the ACT Electoral Commission at the close of counting early yesterday morning. The tables show the figures. The total booth-by-booth figures do not include postal and out of area votes, so the total is lower than the electorate count. Comparisons are difficult because Labor ran a ticket and the Liberals did not, so the Liberal vote was spread more among its candidates. The figures also show the effect of a ticket under Robson rotation. In Ginninderra, for example, voters took less notice of Labor’s ticket in the upmarket suburbs like Aranda and more notice in the lower-socio-economic suburbs _ perhaps it is a feature of education levels. In Aranda, for example, Roberta McRae, second on the ticket, got a higher proportion of first preferences than she did in the lower-end suburbs. In Molonglo, bucked the Labor ticket more in suburbs like Red Hill and Campbell than in Ainslie. In the former suburbs, second-placed Terry Connolly did proportionately better against first-placed Ms Follett. Perhaps it is an educational factor, or perhaps the up-market conservative suburbs preferred Mr Connolly.
However, there is a rough trend showing that the more up-market the suburbs the less inclined people were to follow the Labor ticket, though the trend is not as noticeable in Brindabella where there was widespread bucking of the ticket against the unknown first-placed Andrew Whitecross. Abbreviations in the tables are: Lab is Labor, Lib is Liberal, Grn is Green, MI is Moore Independent, SAV is Smokers are Voters and Civil Rights.