All posts by Adrian Beaumont
Labor, Greens and Legalise Cannabis likely to have combined majority in Victorian upper house
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. There has been much more counting for the Victorian upper house since Saturday night, when under 30% had been counted in most of the eight regions. Five members are elected per region for a total of 40 seats,…
Final Victorian Newspoll gives Labor a large lead
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Victorian state election is today. There are 88 single-member lower house seats with members elected by preferential voting, and 40 upper house seats in eight five-member electorates. The election in the lower house seat of Narracan has…
Labor easily wins Victorian election; Greens on track to win four lower house seats
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. This article has been updated. With 53% counted in the lower house for the Victorian election, the ABC is calling 51 of the 88 seats for Labor, a clear majority. The Coalition has 23, the Greens five and…
Nine days from Victorian election, a new poll gives Labor a modest lead; US Republicans win House
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Victorian election will be held in nine days, on November 26. A Redbridge poll for The Herald Sun, conducted October 31 to November 6 from a sample of 1,189, gave Labor a 53.5-46.5 lead. Primary votes had…
Labor retains large lead in Victorian Resolve poll four weeks from election; also leads in NSW
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Victorian state election will be held in four weeks, on November 26. A Resolve poll for The Age, conducted October 20-24 from a sample of “more than 800”, gave Labor a 59-41 lead over the Coalition. Resolve…
Republicans gain in US midterm polls with three weeks until election
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The United States midterm elections will be held in nearly three weeks, on November 8. All 435 House of Representatives seats are up for election, as well as 35 of the 100 senators. Democrats won the House by…
US byelections suggest improved prospects for Democrats at midterms, while Liz Cheney suffers huge loss
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The US midterm elections occur in just over two months, on November 8. All 435 House of Representatives seats and 35 of the 100 senators are up for election. At the 2020 elections, Democrats won the house by…
US Democrats gain ground before midterm elections as Kansas voters reject attempt to ban abortion
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On June 24, the US Supreme Court denied a constitutional right to an abortion, overturning its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. I covered this and two other late June right-wing decisions by the court in an early…
Labor likely to get a friendly Senate and secures House of Representatives majority
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. UPDATE: On Monday night, the ABC called Macnamara as a Labor hold, giving Labor 76 of the 151 House of Representatives seats, enough for a majority. In the two remaining undecided seats, Labor has taken a narrow lead…
Why Labor is likely to win a House of Representatives majority despite a 33% primary vote
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. With 73% of enrolled voters counted, the ABC is calling 73 of the 151 House of Representatives seats for Labor, 54 for the Coalition, 15 Others and nine in doubt. Labor is likely to win Lyons, while the…