Election sees status quo in the broader New England

It's becoming easier and easier to follow New England election results with the progressive decline in the number of our seats, state and federal. It's hard to believe, but New England now has fewer Federal seats than South Australia.

In 1967, our population was larger than Western Austraia's, well in front of South Australia. Now South Australia has eleven Federal seats, while New England has nine with part falling in the seat of Parkes.

With seats down one from the previous Federal election, the results this time were broadly status quo:

• Labor 5 (Hunter, Paterson, Richmond, Shortland, Newcastle)
• National 4 (Cowper, Lyne, New England, Page) plus part of the National held seat of Parkes. 

I will do a full report once we have the final figures.