Guy Said:

Why did the labor party win the 2010 Australian election?

We Answered:

G'day Silvershadow,

Thank you for your question.

The Australian Labor Party lost a number of seats in Queensland and NSW due to unpopular state governments and Labor disunity caused by the dumping of Kevin Rudd. It was able to hold the line or improve its position slightly in South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. It resulted in neither the Coalition or Labor having enough numbers to form a majority government.

There was six crossbenchers. The Greens Adam Bandt and Andrew Wilkie (a former Greens candidate) are left wing and come from a strong leftwing electorate. They made the sensible decisio from their perspective of supporting the party that was closer to their point-of-view.

Tony Crook of the WA Nationals and Bob Katter are members or ex-members of the National Party who come from conservative electorates with strong mining industries. They supported the more conservative coalition with the proposed mining tax playing a strong role,

The case of Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott. They were ex-members of the National Party who were disillusioned and seem to have based their decision on this more than anything else although it was justified by the NBN and other issues. Their support for the defacto left-wing coalition of Labor and the Greens will probably not have gone down well.

I have attached sources for your reference.

Regards

Lester Said:

who is best to win the australian 2010 election?

We Answered:

The people have voted and we still don't know the answer.

Both sides ran a very negative campaign and tried to convince the Australian people that the other side is not fit to run the country, so as a nation we've believed them and voted a dead split because neither side is fit to run the country.

Neither Gillard nor Abbott make/would make a good PM. In fact the only person who'd I'd want as PM right now is Joe Hockey.

Ella Said:

When will they select a Prime Minister from the 2010 Australian Federal Election?

We Answered:

So don't you understand what a "hung parliament" means? Are you asking for an explanation of that?

When we have a hung parliament, nobody knows who the Prime Minister will be. Even if the three Independents and the Greens member decide to support either Labor or Liberal - they still wont have enough seats to form a government. There are still three seats undecided, and waiting for all the postal votes to arrive and be counted could take us up to late next week before a decision is reached. The results in these undecided seats are by a very slim margin, and keep changing daily. It's likely (and my prediction) that the Liberal/National coalition will win by just one seat - and Tony Abbott is likely to become Prime Minister.

Basically, if we reach mid-October and there is no clear majority for either party, the Governor General can call ANOTHER election, so we all have to vote again. This process cannot be sped up, it takes time. In the meantime, Labor and Julia Gillard are still in government in a caretaker capacity.

Jennie Said:

what was the seat with the highest preference for one particular party in the 2010 Australian federal election?

We Answered:

there is no such seat.

Patsy Said:

URGENT!! Who won the australian elections? 2010?

We Answered:

To win the election, a party requires more than half the seats in the House of Representatives (which is 76). The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is claiming today that we have a hung parliament of the following makeup;

Labor - 72
Liberal/National - 73
Greens - 1
Independent - 4

This means that the single Greens member and 4 Independents basically get to side with a major party, and if one party reaches 76 in number that way - then they will form a government. Until they decide, then we still have a caretaker government run by incumbent PM Julia Gillard. It still could take another 2 weeks to decide on the final result. If a result cannot be finalised with either major party holding at least 76 seats - then it's likely another election will be held.

Edit: At the moment, negotiations between the leaders Gillard and Abbott are continuing with the Independent members. What will happen next is that a parliamentary "vote of no confidence" will be performed against Julia Gillard and the Labor party. If 76 members vote against her and the party, the Governor-General (Quentin Bryce) will ask Tony Abbott if he is able to earn the support of parliament to form Government. If he gets the support of 76 members, the coalition forms government and Abbott becomes PM. If he also does not get the support of 76 members (say, they both get 75 votes each) then it's likely another election will be held. It's likely that the Greens member for Melbourne Adam Brandt will support Labor, and the Nationals member for O'Connor Tony Crook is still likely to support Abbott and the Coalition (after saying he will only support Labor if they dump the mining tax). This leaves both major parties with 73 likely votes of support, the "winner" still needs at least 3 more. It's also been speculated (and numerous polls have shown) that voters in the Independent seats of Kennedy, Lyne and New England are strongly conservative and overwhelmingly support an Abbott coalition government. This could create problems for the Independent members in their own electorates if they chose to instead support a Gillard government - that would be like committing "political suicide".