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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[–] olorin99@kbin.earth 29 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Just yesterday I talked to someone from Dickson who was complaining that it felt like a waste of time since Dutton was just going to win. Bet they're pretty happy now.

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Thank you to our forebears for this at least, giving us preferential voting so that no matter what we think might happen, we can still vote by our heart!!

[–] 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.

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