There has been a lot of talk of historic third party highs and the potential for the Greens vote to crash out before the next election. It seems to me they’ve been around for 20 years federally and pretty much only gone from strength to strength. Nothing represents this better than a graph.
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| Green Votes on the Up. (data from Wiki) |
Unless this years Green vote can be considered as their third party peak, having already exceeded the best results of both the Democrats and the mysterious DLP, then it looks pretty certain that their vote will continue to grow. Since 1996 the Green vote has only increased – in net terms they have never lost a voter. So for all the Liberal nay-sayers trying to rain on the parade, I have to pull you up. If you saw a graph for the economy looking like this, you’d be stoked. In fact, if you were an astute investor, you’d probably be rushing out to buy shares.
PS.
Read the Greens blurbs on the Greenslide. In brief, in three seats the Greens have beaten the Liberals to become the two party preferred vote with Labor. Also worth noting that rural and regional seats had an average Green swing of 3%.
