1 month after the Australian federal election, the Senate vote count is still not finished

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[quote=ABC News][b]Family First senator Bob Day has won the tightly contested 12th South Australian seat in the Senate, following the Australian Electoral Commission's official distribution of preferences.[/b]

Senator Day's victory means Labor's Anne McEwen has lost her seat.

She was bumped to fourth spot on the ALP ticket, due to the inclusion of the so-called Labor godfather Don Farrell.

The double dissolution election has left the Greens with just one South Australian Senate seat, with Sarah Hanson-Young to return to Canberra but Robert Simms missing out.[/quote]

Read more at [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/election-2016:-bob-day-re-elected-senate-south-australia-family/7681934[/url]

The election happened on the 2nd of July, for all 150 seats in the House and all 76 seats in the Senate (as opposed to only 40 Senate seats in a normal election). The House vote count is pretty much finished, but the Senate vote count continues. At stake are 12 at-large Senate seats from each state, and 2 at-large Senate seats from each territory.

Current count:
- Liberals/Nationals: 30 seats
- Labor: 26 seats
- Greens: 9 seats
- Nick Xenophon Team: 3 seats
- One Nation: 3 seats
- Derryn Hinch's Justice Party: 1 seat
- Family First: 1 seat
- Jacqui Lambie Network: 1 seat

- In doubt: 2 seats

Read more (such as seats won in certain states, and party vote counts) at [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2016/results/senate/[/url]

[Araknid]

How Pauline Hansen and Jacqui Lambie got seats is beyond me

[🅱️🅰️LLS. ➿]

please don't tell me that One Nation actually got that third seat. Fuck you Hanson you crazy bitch.

[DogGunn]

I'd rather our complex, extended counting periods, than the first past the post elections found in other places. They've still got another 5 days before the results have to be declared by law.

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I was hoping LDP would get a seat after preferences but it doesn't look like it. Pity.

[DogGunn]

[QUOTE=download;50821000]I was hoping LDP would get a seat after preferences but it doesn't look like it. Pity.[/QUOTE]

Screw the LDP. Sponsored by big tobacco.

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[QUOTE=DogGunn;50821022]Screw the LDP. Sponsored by big tobacco.[/QUOTE]

So, you disagree with someone and they're automatically a shill?

[DogGunn]

[QUOTE=download;50821034]So, you disagree with someone and they're automatically a shill?[/QUOTE]

I disagree with his ridiculous libertarian views. And being sponsored by big tobacco automatically makes you a shill, yes.

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[QUOTE=DogGunn;50821054]I disagree with his ridiculous libertarian views. And being sponsored by big tobacco automatically makes you a shill, yes.[/QUOTE]

[citation needed]

[sb27]

[QUOTE=Araknid;50820935]How Pauline Hansen and Jacqui Lambie got seats is beyond me[/QUOTE]

The politics of fear. She was first elected because 'those Asians are invading our country', and she was elected once-more because 'those Muslims are going to blow us up'. Fear sells to bogans I guess. Didn't help that she only needed ~7% of the vote in QLD to get elected. Senator Sam Dastyari said it pretty well on Q&A.

As for Lambie, I guess it's name recognition and that she's a 'battler'.

[DogGunn]

[QUOTE=download;50821057][citation needed][/QUOTE]

Why? A libertarian platform while taking tobacco money is bad. And regardless he got his seat back in the Senate. Fuck that