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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoJust loose wording from me. What I was trying to say is that their vote count was actually higher this time around, not lower, but the increase was so small it was a rounding error on their overall percentage. The point being, their voterbase didn’t go anywhere, but nor did they attract new folk.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Gerrymandering in Melbourne also worked against Greens.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Are you meaning this in a negative way? The seat was reapportioned and as is the Electoral Commission’s guidance on the matter, it was pushed towards as even of a split as possible.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Maybe it is unfair to call it Gerrymandering but it definitely worked against Greens.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I mean, to call it gerrymandering is valid, but people always tend to use it as a dirty word. Any time people are making the choices about electoral boundaries there’s gerrymandering at play. We just choose in Australia to generally try to make seats as competitive as possible. On the balance of things, Greens-dominant areas in Fitzroy North and Carlton North were also redistributed away from Melbourne to Wills, which meant that Peter Khalil (Labor) had a huge 7.60% swing against him. Samantha Ratnam (Greens) came within 3k votes of winning the seat. This is all coming from a Greens member by the way.