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Abstract
The state of Victoria appeared to be of secondary importance to the conduct of the 2007 election. Even though the state returns the second largest number of seats to the House of Representatives, few of these are ultra-marginal. This was born out in the 2007 election where, despite a significant two-party swing to the Australian Labor Party (ALP), only two seats changed. Likewise, the electoral contest for the Senate was an even affair with the major parties—the ALP and the Liberal-National coalition—winning six seats each.
Notes
1. Herald Sun, 18 October 2007.
2. Australian Electoral Commission, The 2002–2003 Redistribution of Victoria: Final Report, 2003, http://www.aec.gov.au/pdf/redistributions/2002/report/Sec75ReportVic.pdf, accessed 15 December 2007.
3. See Nick Economou, ‘Victoria’, in Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Mortgage Nation: The 2004 Australian Election, API Network, Perth, 2005, pp 183–93.
4. Nick Economou, ‘Political chronicles January to June 2006: Victoria’, Australian Journal of Political History, vol 52, no 4, 2006, pp 651–2.
5. Herald Sun, 18 October 2007.
6. See http://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Media_release?12_19.htm, accessed 15 December 2007.
7. Brian Costar, ‘The 2006 Victorian state election: maintaining Labor’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 42, no 4, 2007, pp 683–91.
8. See Nick Economou, ‘A right-of-centre triumph: the 2004 Australian half-Senate election’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 41, no 4, 2006, pp 501–16.