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The Greens almost outpoll Labor in the Laharum, Halls Gap and Pomonal. The Halls Gap booth is the only ttp where they win which looks out of place.
Popular tree-change/alternative lifestyle area whose economy relies on tourism, viticulture etc – doesn’t surprise me Labor/the Greens do well there
Does anyone remember how the Liberals did not run in Richmond in 2018? What if Labor didn’t run in seats like this? In reality it makes no difference to them.
The conventional wisdom is that it important to run in an as many seats as possible to maximise the Upper House vote even it it would seem totally futile. It is possible in Lowan that the Labir vote will be in single figures.
@ Adam
As redistributed correctly said it is good to maximise the Upper House vote. There is tiny pockets of left-wing strength here like Halls Gap so if there is a tight result for the Last seat then Labor wants the left to hold that seat. I say Richmond in 2018 not contesting was a mistake as there are pockets of Liberal strength around Cremorne and Burnley. I think only reason Libs did it then is they did not want to be in a dilemma on who to preference.
If Labor actually campaigned around Stawell they could flip the booths through but I’d doubt the membership is that big there plus it wouldn’t be worth the time.
Labor need to sure up their Western Region upper house MPs, could be at risk of losing 1 and if that trend continued in the other regional areas it would be very hard for Labor to be in a position of any strength in the upper house no matter if they hang onto government in the LA
Perhaps in 2018 or even last cycle it might have been possible for Labor to overperform in Stawell but this cycle I think it would be really tough, after 10 years very little headway has been made on Western Hwy duplication past Ararat