7:55 – I won’t bother making any more updates now – once we have most of the results in I’ll put together a booth breakdown and post that.
7:22 – No evidence so far that the voters of New England have judged Joyce harshly for his citizenship bungle. I suspect that voters see the by-election as unnecessary, and possibly have sympathy for him. This fits with the 1996 Lindsay by-election, when Jackie Kelly gained a substantial swing after section 44 threw her out.
6:45 – So far the results don’t look very interesting. With four booths reporting, Barnaby Joyce is on 69.6% of the primary vote.
6:00 – Polls have just closed in New England. I’ll be live blogging the results here as they come in.
So this looks to be the very dampest of damp squibs.
Obviously it’s slightly unusual circumstances, but a government getting a sizeable swing TO them at a by-election is an achievement of sorts…
Barnaby had no credible competitor, which made it easy for him.
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