Labor Leader Jon Stanhope has the moral claim to government after yesterday’s election, even if Labor gets an equal number of seats as the Liberals. It seems that the Liberals’ vote in Molonglo held up enough for them to retain three seats. However, overall the Liberal vote was substantially down on the 1998 result and Labor was substantially ahead of the Liberals in primary vote. Labor was more than 10 percentage points ahead of the Liberals in Ginninderra and Brindabella and slightly ahead in Molonglo.
In any event, the three independents who held up the Liberal Government are all gone. Michael Moore retired and Dave Rugendyke and Paul Osborne were defeated. The two defeated independents were socially conservative and have been replaced by more centrist Democrats. It indicates the mood of the electorate is to move to the left.
But the moral claim to government is one matter. Getting the numbers is another.
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