AEC national tally nearing 80 percent complete
Counting of votes from last weekend’s election is still in progress.
Based on the latest tally, 12.30 noon today, the Australian Electoral Commission reported that 78.92% of primary votes, and 76.03% of two party preferred votes, had been counted.
The AEC tally shows Labor with 70 seats and Coalition, 71. The Greens have one seat and the independents four seats. Four seats still remain doubtful.
At least 76 seats are required for a party to have an outright majority to form a government. Neither Labor nor the Coalition appears likely to gain that majority. Negotiations are reportedly going on with the three sitting independents who have been re-elected.
In Greenway where Filipino Australian Jaymes Diaz (Liberal) is in a race with Michelle Rowland (Labor), the AEC tally shows Rowland with 29,244 votes against Diaz’ 28,262 votes of the primary votes.
On a two-candidate preferred (TCP) basis, Rowland has 50.82 percent and Diaz, 49.18 percent of the TCP vote with votes from one precinct still to be counted.
Based on AEC’s definition, a seat is considered “won” by the TCP candidate with more than 50.5 percent of the TCP vote.
According to election analysts, tallying of votes may take up to Tuesday, 31 August, the timeframe allowed for counting of postal and absentee votes.
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