NSW Election a Brittle Victory for Labor
Commentary
The New South Wales (NSW) election involved a decisive shift to the left, but not to the Australian Labor Party (ALP), who appears to have scraped home with perhaps a four-seat majority with 54.3 percent of the two-party preferred vote. This is comfortable but certainly not huge.
The centre-right Liberal-National Coalition lost more ground than Labor gained, losing around 14 seats compared to a gain of 11 (counting hasn’t finished, so it is impossible to be completely accurate).
The two-party preferred (2PP) count is not as relevant in NSW as elsewhere because of its optional preferential system and also the fact that Independents did so well….