SHOCKING Australia Election Results: Australia’s Conservative Party Seizes Stunning Win

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The Trump effect. The people are taking back their countries from the left. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has won a historic victory, taking his party for a third term in government against all expectations.

Australia’s conservative party retains power in shocking election result

The Labor Party has lost the “unloseable” election.

The Australian federal election has delivered a shocking result, with the right-wing Liberal-National government expected to return to power for a third term despite polls and odds having strongly favored the opposition Labor Party.

Votes are still being counted; although no side has a majority, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Liberal-National coalition (also known simply as the Coalition) is projected to win enough seats in the House of Representatives to form either a majority or minority government. In the case of a minority government, the Coalition would hold fewer than the required 76 seats needed for majority rule, and would have to negotiate with independents for supply and confidence.

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At the time of publishing, the ABC has called 74 seats for the Coalition, 66 for Labor, and 6 for independents.

Australia’s favorite election analyst Antony Green gave a tempered projection about the country’s political future as initial results came in, saying, “We can’t see an alternative to a Morrison government in the numbers we’re seeing at the moment.”

Hours after Green made those comments, Labor leader Bill Shorten conceded, telling supporters, “I know that you’re all hurting, and I am too,” after what has been described by the ABC as a “horror night” for Labor.

While the large seat losses predicted for the Coalition did not come to pass, one important symbolic change did occur: Divisive former prime minister Tony Abbott lost his once-safe Sydney seat of Warringah, which he’s held by a large margin since 1994, to independent candidate Zali Steggall, a lawyer and former Olympian who ran on the issue of climate change.

Labor has lost the “unloseable” election

The Labor Party was widely favored to win this election — so much so that popular gambling website Sportsbet opted to pay out to Labor-backers two days early, to the tune of $1.3 million (there was no such luck then or now for the man who placed a record-breaking $1 million bet on Labor on rival site Ladbrokes).

The Liberal-National coalition has trailing in the “two party-preferred” polls for years now, something that — along with the Coalition’s internal division over climate policy — has caused the group to change prime ministers twice in six years (Morrison has only been PM since last August).

The Coalition has grown (or appeared to have grown) increasingly unpopular over its inaction on climate change, an issue of great import to Australians, who now put climate change at the top of the list of threats to the national interest. While Labor’s climate policies are more in line with public opinion, its leader is not. Voters have consistently signaled they prefer whoever leads the Liberal Party to Labor’s unpopular leader Bill Shorten in the preferred prime minister polling, something Morrison tried to capitalize on by turning the parliamentary race into a presidential one.

And while polls had narrowed in recent weeks, Labor remained clearly in front, with some pundits now blaming the “shy Tory factor” (essentially people telling pollsters they plan to vote for more liberal candidates before actually voting for conservative candidates) for this surprise upset. On-air commenters in Australia are questioning whether they can ever really trust polling again, in scenes reminiscent of both the aftermath of the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election.

What happens now?

Pre-poll votes still need to be counted, and with Australians having cast a record number of early votes, these ballots could affect the results. Green says the early ballots won’t turn the results around, but they could determine whether the Liberal-National coalition wins the 76 seats required for a majority.

If the Coalition doesn’t manage to secure a majority, it will have to negotiate with the independents, who hold a growing influence over Australian politics.

Minority governments were once a rarity in Australian politics, but have become increasingly common in recent years, as voters have grown dissatisfied with the two major parties and the independent vote has risen. Seven key independent candidates released a joint statement earlier this month, declaring action on climate change a major condition for securing their support in the next parliament. It remains to be seen whether the Liberal-National Party will actually require the support of any of those climate-focused independents, or if they can rely on others to form a governing coalition.

A pre-election analysis by former Labor prime minister advisor Sean Kelly predicted that if Labor somehow lost this election, the party’s identity would be up for grabs, and “the idea that Australians have become permanently more progressive will die.”

Current Labor leader Bill Shorten has said he will not seek another term in his party’s top job. Many voters have long wished for one of the more popular leaders from the party’s left-wing, such as deputy leader Tanya Plibersek or infrastructure spokesman Anthony Albanese, to take over as Labor leader. While this could be the chance for more progressive members of the party to assert themselves, after the public’s repudiation of Labor, it remains to be seen whether that is a course of action Labor members have an appetite for.

On the Coalition side, Former Liberal prime minister advisor Niki Savva suggested that in the unlikely event Morrison prevailed, he would have unprecedented authority over the party, having single-handedly dragged the conservatives back from sure electoral defeat.

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Happy to hear that!
Australia is fighting to take their country back!

And while polls had narrowed in recent weeks, Labor remained clearly in front, with some pundits now blaming the “shy Tory factor”

(essentially people telling pollsters they plan to vote for more liberal candidates before actually voting for conservative candidates)

for this surprise upset. On-air commenters in Australia are questioning whether they can ever really trust polling again, in scenes reminiscent of both the aftermath of the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election.

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago

This is NOT a victory for conservative politics, it is a defeat for socialist green lunacy as the supposed “conservatives” are actually mostly globalists. It would appear that the electorate has woken up and while no one really likes the LNP coalition they have to be better than the Marxist/green others. What is a pity is that most voters realized this and voted for a party that they dislike just to stop the labour lunatics and the truly conservative minor parties all suffered as a result with Fraser Anning losing his seat after his MSM political assassination.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

…the supposed “conservatives” are actually mostly PATRIOTS!

There, fixed dat BS 4 u!

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

True conservatives? yes! False globalists who call themselves “conservative” No! The Australian Liberals are almost as bad as are the UK Tories but I guess that you do not know much about Oz politics. As for BS I suggest that you only reply when you have a clue.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Small consolation but it’s like voting for DEMS or RINOS. Some RINOS are still timid about being in the open on their betrayal. The betrayal is a global problems for the west and those of us that don’t want Muslims or this NWO they have cooked up.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Don’t they have a Conservative party in the UK that’s just as bad as all the rest (Labour, Tory) there? Is Australia’s Conservative party cut from the same cloth?

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

….I don’t care how you parse it….it’s still a victory….and we will take what little victory it is. But good points and distinction, Michelle.

Icebow
Icebow
4 years ago

Oorah.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

good work guys

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
4 years ago

Best part is that the Labor leader Bill Shorten is an accused rapist that has been protected from scrutiny by the compliant media, the police and the Department of Public Prosecutions for 5 years. Perhaps his victim will finally have her day in court for the evidence to be tested.

Roland
Roland
4 years ago
Reply to  Trevor Fortune

That sounds familiar. I see the Aussie media is learning a thing or two from the US media. It’s too late, we have your game all figured out. It’s easy, really. Just disbelieve everything that comes out of the media’s mouth.

SeRiOuSLy!!??
SeRiOuSLy!!??
4 years ago

TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRIES!

patd
patd
4 years ago

Maybe the Australians are pulling away form the supporters of the parasitic feral animal muslims????

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

Why another MAGA!

Make Australia Great Again!

Sorry, no MGBA, yet. Make Britain Great Again. I miss their TR6 Roadster. Most FUN car ever driven and so ye olde world like.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

What exactly can the Australians do to affect climate change with only a tiny fraction of 1% of the world’s population? Perhaps, they can stop selling colal, iron ore, copper, and other natural resources to China, Japan,Korea and India and the rest of the world? If that’s the number one issue in Australia,then the loons must have all settled there.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

I wish. We have more of those “loons” here and they are very well financed by foreign influences….McCain was one of them, as are a lot of others….Bob Corker of my home state of TN…voluntarily left to go full Globalist in a cushy foreign financed job. Good Riddance!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

This is a heartening story….maybe things are turning around across the globe.

SK
SK
4 years ago

My belief is most of the pollsters are liberal douchbags who manipulate the polling numbers to look like the people favor the left. I watched exit pollsters specifically target people(profiling) that looked like they may have voted democrat during the Bush/Kerry election. If you remember they were declaring Kerry the winner in several states before the polls had closed in an attempt to influence people to sit it out on the west coast. They were using these manipulative exit poll numbers.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  SK

…leftist douchbags, not liberal.

There is a difference.

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
4 years ago

Polls are no longer reliable since in a total surveillance world, people know not to talk to pollsters, since they may be up to collecting information on the subject, rather than actually asking about the likelihood of how an election will turn out.

People no longer trust the pollsters.

Roland
Roland
4 years ago

He won “against all expectations”. Must be the same media and polls that had hildebeast winning in a landslide. Yuk yuk!

ed
ed
4 years ago

And….it appears to be……Hillary….in a LANDSLIDE !!!! This stuff happens Down Under, too, apparently…

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