A few days ago, we saw Canada's Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre lose an election and his own seat. Can we make that twice in a week?

Current numbers (6.1% counted) have a 5.1% swing to the ALP, resulting in a 6.8% lead for Labor's Ali France over Liberal leader Peter Dutton.

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[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To think that the reason we have preferential voting is because it benefitted the conservative parties of the day...

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of all of the back and forth between optional and full preferential voting at the state level. Usually the change would only happen because the government at the time thought they would benefit from it, only for it to backfire an election cycle or two later.