The LNP’s ‘earth shattering’ win over Labor in Saturday’s Queensland state election and the Greens’ loss of one of their two iconic Brisbane seats sets the stage for the looming federal election.
The Greens’ aim was to double its number of Brisbane seats via a wave of support from renters and younger voters suffering from staggering housing costs and ‘sky rocketing’ costs of living.
In the federal election contest in the key seat of Richmond the Greens’ high-profile candidate Mandy Nolan is running the same Green campaign and Labor’s Justine Elliot needs to hold the seat ‘at all costs’ for the eighth consecutive time for any chance of a miracle return of Labor’s Albo government!
First-preference results in the 2022 Richmond election were: ALP 28.8%, Greens 25.3%, Nationals 23.3%, minor parties 17%, independents 5.6%.
The above results mean that around one out of five of voters did not wish to vote for any of the major parties, but were forced to, by the compulsory voting system where sufficient boxes have to be numbered for a valid vote to be registered.
In the coming 2025 federal election for the seat of Richmond the 23% of 2022 Richmond swing voters will grow by at least another 3% to 6%, a matter every major party campaign manager should be focused upon.
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