I live in the suburb of Newport, which is in the Federal electorate of Gellibrand, Victoria. This is a safe Labor seat that last year Tim Watts won with a 15.8% margin.
So it was interesting that, over the course of this election campaign, almost all the political signs I saw around my neighbourhood were for the Australian Greens.
Photo of an election sign for the Australian Greens party installed in front of a house. The sign reads “Vote 1 Suzette Rodoreda for Gellibrand”.
I guess that explains why in yesterday’s polling the Greens got the biggest positive swing (+2.97%) towards them.
Two graphs showing votes received by each political party in the electorate of Gellibrand, Victoria, Australia during the 2022 Federal Election. The first graph shows the percentage of votes received, with the Australian Labor Party receiving 43.2%, followed by the Liberals at 27.1% and the Greens at 16.8%. The second graph shows the swing in votes compared to the previous election. The biggest negative swings are for Labour (-5.84%) and Liberal (-3.67%), while the biggest positive swing is for Greens (2.97%).
Labor held on to this seat, of course, despite that 5.84% drop in votes.
Which is something I’m guessing the folks living in this house expected would happen.
Photo of two election signs installed in front of a house, one for the Australian Greens and one for the Australian Labor Party.
Aside from a single One Nation and single United Australia Party sign, the only other campaign materials I saw sound the neighbourhood were anti-Morrison signs and stickers. Quite a few of them, actually!
One of which was gleefully updated overnight :)
Photo of an election sign installed in the window of a house. The sign shows Australian prime Minister Scott Morrison wearing Hawaiian shirt and a garland of flowers on his head. Below that is text that reads, in quotation marks, “NOT MY JOB”. Stuck on top of the sign is an A4 sheet of paper with the word “GONE” hand-written on it in large, all-capital letters; and below this a smiley face.