Reblogged from slackbastard
Posted on September 12, 2013 by @ndy
The Mad Monk is Australia’s NEW! Prime Minister.
HUZZAH!
Five days after polling closed, here’s the results obtained by the far right.
Australia First Party
AF stood 10 candidates for the Lower House (8 in NSW and one each in SA and VIC) and gambled on a seat in the Senate in NSW and QLD. The party’s main claim to fame during the campaign was being placed ahead of the Greens in NSW by the Wikileaks Party on its Senate ticket. This decision by WLP drew no small degree of criticism, the party claiming it was the result of an “administrative error” while others claiming it was the product of a backroom preference deal. In the end, AF (Garth Fraser and Darrell Wallbridge) received 2,819 votes (0.09%) in NSW, while Wikileaks fared considerably better with 26,437 (0.8%). As for AF in QLD, teenage former Stalinist, neo-Nazi and Labor party candidate Peter Watson joined Peter Schuback in sharing 4,583 votes (0.25%).
Despite having previously declared that he was going to snatch the seat of Cook from former opposition spokesperson on Immigration, Scott Morrison, Party fuehrer Dr Jim Saleam managed to acquire just 521 votes or 0.66%, coming last among the seven candidates. In (“Get the ‘Face of Chinese Imperialism’ out of”) Bennelong, Victor Waterson scored 374 votes (0.51%), the last of eight. Of the nine worthies in Calare, Peter Schultze done a bit better, gaining 885 votes, smashing through the 1% barrier (1.06%) and avoiding coming last, a fate reserved for the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) candidate.
In Chifley, veteran bizarr0 Alex Norwick saw AF’s vote decline from 1.17% to 0.46% (336 votes). This decline may well be blamed on teh gheys; the DLP got its revenge by beating Norwick into last place. The decline in the AF vote was repeated in Lindsay, where Mick Saunders’s 508 votes (0.66%) represented a reduction of 0.51%; Mick’s vote did at least ensure that the most unpopular of the eight candidates on offer was Geoff Brown of the Stable Population Party. In Macquarie, Matt Saunders managed to increase the AF vote by 0.02%, gaining 626 votes (0.79%), thereby pushing Teresa Elaro (DLP) into last place on a mere 413 (0.52%).
Things were a bit brighter for AF in Newcastle, candidate Michael Chehoff being placed first on the ballot and getting 707 votes (0.98%) for his troubles. In doing so Michael beat both the Socialist Alliance candidate (514/0.71%) and that of the Australian Independents (217/0.37%). The last Australia First candidate in NSW was Lorraine Sharp in Riverina. She got the best result for the party with 1,127 votes (1.43%) and placed eighth out of ten candidates for the seat.
Outside of its NSW heartland, AF ran just two further Lower House candidates, in Port Adelaide (SA) and Deakin (VIC). In Port Adelaide, last-placed Terry Cooksley earned 857 votes (1.12%) while in Deakin a bewigged John Carbonari failed to set the seat on fire with a measly 156 votes (0.22%), a reduction from the dizzying heights achieved last time around of 0.28%.
Australian Protectionist Party
The APP ‘Love Australia’, but how much does Australia love the APP? In the race in Queensland for a seat in the Senate, Rick Heyward, “a very proud Australian, who is passionate about protecting his country”, received 687 votes (0.04%) and the dubious merit of being the most unpopular of all party candidates. Oh, and Doug Boag too.
In the seat of Fremantle (WA), Teresa Van Lieshout had 147 (0.22%) people vote for her, the APP at least proving to be more popular than the LaRouche kvltists of the Citizens Electoral Council (96/0.14%). Things were a bit better for the APP in Swan, where Troy Ellis, “a Who Weekly finalist for their Most Beautiful Person Award” in 1999, rode a donkey on to gaining 522 votes (0.82%), and came third last.
Oh and in Corangamite (VIC), ex-One Nation candidate Nick (Man of) Steel got 115 votes (0.15%), unloving Australians ensuring the Protectionist came twelth of 12.
Independents
In the Victorian seat of Flinders, two Independents, Denis McCormack and Paul Madigan, threw their hats into the ring. Denis scored 360 (0.46%) and Paul 529 (0.68) votes. Both were previously involved in the group ‘Australians Against Further Immigration’, including as candidates, while Denis also helped found AF. You can read some of Paul’s views in the comments on a previous post here. The dynamic duo want to REDUCE IMMIGRATION .
One Nation
The other minor far right (?) party to contest the election was (Pauline Hanson’s) One Nation. It ran 11 candidates in the Lower House in NSW and four in Queensland, along with Senate candidates in NSW, QLD, SA, VIC and WA. Its best result was obtained by Pauline, Kate McCulloch and Aaron Plumb in the NSW Senate race. Generally, in the Lower House candidates placed just above the other fringe parties, typically Australia First, the Christian Democrats (Fred Nile’s mob), Katter’s Australian Party and the poor old CEC. Its worst result came in the Victorian Senate contest, where the Townsends only just managed to beat the Australian Republicans for last place with 190 votes to 143. It would seem that Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party soaked up most of the vote for anti-Establishment candidates with the remains being fought over by a wide range of parties left, (but mostly) right and generally obscure.
In the NSW Senate, Pauline Hanson, Kate McCulloch and Aaron Plumb got 39,375 votes (1.15%), an increase on 2010 of 0.59%. In the House of Representatives, ON hopefuls scored as follows:
Barton | Perry Theo | 591 | 0.81%. Placed 7 of 8, he beat Rodney Tim Wyse of Katter’s Australian Party into last place (518 votes/0.71%).
Charlton | Brian Burston | 2,033 | 2.60%. Burston was placed 6 of 7 candidates, honours for last going to Trevor Anthoney of Bullet Train For Australia fame (1,263 votes/1.61%).
Chifley | Elizabeth Power | 1,200 | 1.60%. Of the 9 hopefuls, Power came seventh, notably beating Alex Norwick of AF (0.46%) by quite a large margin.
Hume | Lynette Styles | 2,160 | 2.71%. Styles was middlin’, coming fifth of nine.
Hunter | Bill Fox | 2,996 | 3.72%. This was a gain for ON of 0.37%, Bill beating both the Christian Democrats & CEC candidates.
Lindsay | Jeffrey Lawson | 1,521 | 1.97%. Placed 6 of 8, ON again triumphed over AF in the form of Mick Saunders (507/0.66%).
Lyne | Craig Huth | 1,964 | 2.53%. Mid-placed Huth (6 of 9) beat the CDP, KAP & CEC candidates (in that order).
New England | Brian Dettmann | 1,362 | 1.67%. In New England the ON vote increased by 0.80% on last time, Brian (7 of 9) beating the CDP & CEC.
Page | Rod Smith | 1,167 | 1.55%. Poor old Rod came last (6 of 6).
Parramatta | Tania Rollinson | 709 | 0.98%. As did Tania (8 of 8).
Werriwa | Marella Harris | 1,340 | 1.92%. Marella (7 of 8) beat the KAP kandidate into last place.
In Queensland, the ON Senate vote (Jim Savage and Ian Nelson) experienced a mild decline, the pair receiving 9,745 votes (0.52%), down 0.39%. In the Lower House, results were fairly poor. Stewart Boyd in Fadden came last (8 of 8), gaining 394 votes (0.58%, down 1.02%); Mike Holt in Fairfax was no match for Clive Palmer, coming last and getting just 600 votes (0.80%); in Herbert, Stephen Moir received a similar vote of confidence (623/0.81%), placing 7 of 10 and finally; in Moncrieff Veronica Beric just managed to beat the CEC bizarr0, obtaining 437 votes (0.65%) for her troubles.
In South Australia, Peter Fitzpatrick and Kym Dunbar got 2,265 votes (0.27%) about half (-0.24%) the number ON got last time around. In Victoria, Dale Townsend and Rosalyn Townsend received 190 votes (0.01%), a decline of 0.37%. The Australian Republicans, on the other hand, received 143 votes. In Western Australia, lone candidate Robert Farmer fared marginally better with 250 (0.03%).
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