colliric wrote:Greens vote dropped 3%, and they lost two senate seats.
Bandt retained Melbourne this time without liberal preferences, but the Greens took a big hit in their "home state".
So overall they've had a bad result. The beginning of the end?
They have not lost any senate seats. They have retained the 3 up for reelection, and gained at least one extra one. Unfortunately Simon Sheikh looks set to just miss out in the ACT - though its on a knife edge. Certainly the Green federal vote has been on the up and up in the ACT.
As for Melbourne, you've been crowing about how Bandt will lose for about 2 years. Something about the liberal preference decision going to ruin the Greens. Instead Bandt gets a
phenomenal primary vote, and say "F U" to liberal preferences. You don't count the other lower house seats in which Greens stood, because this election the Greens literally threw everything they had in Melbourne alone. Yet even so, they still scored over 20% primary vote in a couple of other electorates.
8.5% is more than respectable in this current climate - especially coming off an unsustainably high percentage from 2010. Nothing near the imminent demise you have been predicting the last 3 years. Greens retaining seats everyone predicted they would lose - and then gain senate seats = "beginning of the end" - go figure