Victorian election should prompt Greens to take a 'good look at ourselves' - Polidicks

Victorian Greens MP Lidia Thorpe, who looks to have lost the seat of Northcote just one year after winning it in a by-election, says the party needs to seriously review its campaign after suffering a statewide swing against it. Key points: Greens suffered swing against it in Victorian election It had hoped to win more inner-city seats and gain balance of power Party leader Samantha Ratnam defended campaign but said there would be a review The Greens are expected to lose the seat in Melbourne's inner north as well as four of its five Upper House seats, according to the latest information from the ABC's election computer. They were also battling to retain the inner-city seat of Prahran, where incumbent MP Sam Hibbins was locked in a tight three-way contest with the Liberal Party and Labor. The party went into the election hoping to win the balance of power and even negotiate a ministry in a minority government, but on current numbers, it suffered a swing of 1.6 per cent against it. While Ms Thorpe was yet to officially concede defeat in Northcote, she said the election had not produced a good result for the party. "We need to have a good look at ourselves and have a review of what this election has done to our party, losing quite a considerable amount of Greens members," she told ABC Radio Melbourne. The Greens were plagued by negative press surrounding a number of their candidates during the campaign, including one who was accused of serious sexual misconduct. They also defended their candidate for Footscray, Angus McAlpine, after it was revealed he rapped about condoning date rape, drug use and domestic violence. One of Ms Thorpe's staffers also attracted media criticism over a number of tweets he posted about pornography and sexual assault. Ms Thorpe accused Labor of running a "dirty campaign" against her in Northcote, but conceded her campaign was hindered by bad press generated by party scandals. ... Read more at Victorian election should prompt Greens to take a 'good look at .. tl;dr the Greens had 3 lower house seats and 5 upper house seats, but they shit the bed, and now the landslide victory by Labor is threatening 1 of those lower house seats and could possibly wipe out 4 of the Greens’ upper house seats.

At least it looks like the Greens will reconsider their approach after this tremendous loss, it runs in stark constrast to the Liberals who went in full on denial mode after losing the Wentworth by-election, claiming they don't need to shift their climate policy after they lost a seat due to it.

Victorian election a wake The Liberal Party's electoral humiliation in Victoria has unleashed an internal fightback that has been brewing for several years and poses a significant challenge to Scott Morrison who is under pressure to save the party from electoral death. The psychological impact of Saturday's devastating loss for the Liberals in Victoria means a number of MPs have decided they can no longer stay silent and must now openly and coherently battle to return the party to the centre-right or risk electoral oblivion at the next federal election and beyond. Those who are not aligned with the hard right — a collection of Liberals from moderates to economic dries who are not big C conservatives — fear the threat to the Liberal Party is now existential. They tell me the hard-right rhetoric and repudiation of mainstream values from a belief in climate change to gay rights is so toxic it has led lifetime Liberal voters to shun the party. One MP told me, "They are embarrassed to vote for us". Some seem to have recognised it, but you're right most of them are so scared of losing votes to One Nation they're willing to alienate centrist voters to do it lol.

I'm sure there is a large enough faction of the GOP that believes in climate change too but they don't care to stand up and they were also the ones that got voted out last month.

Can they just lose all their seats in upper and lower already thanks

And trying defining the state's two-party system (if you treating the Coalition as one unified party)? Then no thanks.

dude the greens are almost exclusive labor voters. Its two party already. The greens have laughable policies. Like for instance, their stance on nuclear power. Even labor is less retarded on this topic.

Any statistical proof for your claimed? A course the exaggerated political party stereotyping (especially in minor/third parties) isn’t getting old enough, Is by lets pretending it’s still “relevant” in long run even in Australian politics.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-15/preference-flows-at-the-2016-federal-election/9388826 https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-01/preference-flows-at-the-2010-election/9389568 Note preference to ALP.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/vic-election-2018/guide/brun/ Hmm, so Brunswick got Green elected thus reverted back to only 2 seats but still didn't change much anyway.