If elections held,Australian Labor party to lose with worst result

The Australian Labor Party would lose with worst result in both the houses if elections were held now, giving Tony Abbott control of the upper houses as well as the lower, according to report.

A senior Labor strategist  using the latest Herald Nielsen polling results and projecting them onto a Senate election conduced the analysis,The Sydney Morning Herald report.

The Herald researcher , Nielsen’s John Stirton ,said the analyst was a legitimate use of Nielsen polling data but represented “ a worst case scenario rather then the most likely scenario”.

The analyst showed that among the nine Labor senators who would probably lose their seats including the Finance Minister, Penny Wong and convener of the Left faction, Doug Cameron.

With the speaker of the House of Representative, Peter Slipper, standing aside, the govt. is again forced to survive on the narrowest possible margin.

The analyst revealed that in a chamber of seventy six, the projected result would shrink Labor’s Senate strength from thirty one seats to twenty two. The Greens would increase from nine to twelve.

Therefore, the combined total of Labor and Greens, the govt. coalition, would go from a majority of forty to a minority of thirty four or thirty five. The Coalition’s numbers would swell from thirty four to thirty nine.

The fringe parties and independents would hold three seats instead of the present two, as Bob Katter’s Australian Party would win a seat in Queensland.