Since I’m in the bloggy mood.

Arturo takes VP (no runoff), Action takes Family Housing and Hume, Swamp else.

Surprised? You betcha.

Turnout was 7,187 or thereabouts.

More surprised?

First, congrats. Then, a quick analysis:

Swamp kept their houses, picked up most of Unite’s, and had pretty much all multicultural support, and kept IRHA support (such as it is).
Nobody ever attacked Arturo on any grounds.

By waffling on the “serious” issues (as deemed by the Alligator, i.e. issues Senate can do nothing about but “advocate” i.e. ask nicely), and taking itself a little less seriously than it should have, Action didn’t make itself the clear choice.

Almost nobody talked about Greek / anti-Greek.

The opposition never really articulated what their problem was with Swamp.

Action had a very tough time getting quality candidates.

Action had a vacuum of leadership once we got into the last mile. The party president was nowhere to be found, and communications from the party to candidates / supporters were limited. Not laying any blame here, just saying a fact. This kind of leadership helps motivate volunteers, and it wasn’t there.

Action had very few shirts on the ground during campaign week. Most of Swamp’s were sitting around the table, but there were still many, many more.

So here’s my breakdown. Keys: Swamp/Arturo was untouchable (or at least, untouched); Swamp kept its base and added multicultural; Action couldn’t make a clear case for itself; Action couldn’t get volunteers out.

So congrats to the winners, good job to the losers, thanks to the voters.

This is the last partisan campaign I work on.