Saturday 5 September 2020

NT Results

This should be a reasonably short post, since there's not much to analyse. There was some more advanced statistical work done on this election, but it provided similar results to other methods, particularly relying on the "marginal" definition of a seat.

 The results themselves come to 21/25 or 84% which is pretty standard--perhaps a little low. But there was almost no polling data, so I feel excused.

 The wrong calls weren't particularly enlightening either. Despite the confusion caused by having two possible opposition parties in the mix (Country Liberals and Territory Alliance), at no point did I give a seat to one and have the other take it. (Though, in Nelson I chickened out and didn't distinguish between them. That said, I did call Blain and Fong Lim for TA and not only did the ALP win both, but the TA didn't even come second.

My personal interest was whether TA could survive as a party and even take the role of opposition. My predictions considered this unlikely and this was born out.

Here's what I got wrong:
Barkly - rated safe by normal measures (8% margin) and Labor since 94, this was the only real surprise. That said, it's important to note that the CLP holds the seat with a 0.1% margin.
Blain & Fong Lim - I gave the TA too much credit. They weren't even able to retain these two incumbents in an election that should have seen the ALP on the defensive. 
Port Darwin - Noted as a close race but expected a bigger swing against Labor based mostly on a CLP history of success in the seat. This seat will fall but not this year.

Seat Incumbent Prediction Result
Arafura ALP ALP ALP
Araluen TA TA TA
Arnhem ALP ALP ALP
Barkly ALP ALP CLP
Blain TA TA ALP
Braitling ALP CLP CLP
Brennan ALP CLP CLP
Casuarina ALP ALP ALP
Daly CLP CLP CLP
Drysdale ALP ALP ALP
Fannie Bay ALP ALP ALP
Fong Lim TA TA ALP
Goyder IND IND IND
Gwoja IND ALP ALP
Johnston ALP ALP ALP
Karama ALP ALP ALP
Katherine ALP CLP CLP
Mulka IND IND IND
Namatjira ALP CLP CLP
Nelson IND Opp CLP
Nightcliff ALP ALP ALP
Port Darwin ALP CLP ALP
Sanderson ALP ALP ALP
Spillett CLP CLP CLP
Wanguri ALP ALP ALP