Psephologists Delight - Find all the Federal Election Candidates
In Australia the order in which candidates appear is important due to the "Donkey Vote" where indifferent electors simply fill in the ballot paper from top to bottom.
This is the last Federal election to be covered by Antony Green, pictured here with one of my all time favourite TV News journalists Maxine McKew.
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With Maxine McKew at the 1998 Queensland election. One of my toughest elections as two-party politics came undone in the face of One Nation’s first burst on the scene
Maxine is famous for defeating sitting Prime Minister John Howard.1
Maxine was the Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the First Rudd Ministry and the First Gillard Ministry.
Antony Green’s Key Seats Analysis
Do you agree with Antony on his assessment2 of his designated Key Seats ?
Note he includes the Labor seats won in 2022 with large margins - Blair 5.2%, Dunkley 6.8%, Greenway 7.9%, Solomon 8,4%, Moreton 9.1% and Macnamara 12.2%.
Opinion polls are currently showing Peter Dutton is not a threat to Antony Albanese, although the majority of small parties will direct their preferences to him.
Antony provides lists of all candidates in ballot paper order and useful data on preference flows for each seat at the 2022 election.3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_McKew
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/guide/key-seats
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/guide/electorates