{"id":31642,"date":"2012-07-22T01:10:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=31642"},"modified":"2012-07-22T01:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T15:10:28","slug":"the-noise-of-democracy-in-melbourne-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=31642","title":{"rendered":"The Noise of Democracy in Melbourne 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greens or Labor? Probably — and somewhat contrary to expectations — Labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But who cares?<\/p>\n

The real competition was between Anarchy, Communism, Constitutionalism, Christianity, Secularism and Sex. Currently<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. [Sex!] PATTEN, Fiona\t(Sex Party): 1801 \/ 6.61%
\n2. *MAYNE, Stephen: 1293 \/ 4.75%
\n3. [Christ!] FENN, Ashley (Family First): 802 \/ 2.94%
\n4. [Christ!] MURPHY, Michael (Democratic Labor Party): 521 \/ 1.91%
\n5. [Christ!] BENGTSSON, Maria (Australian Christians[?]): 339 \/ 1.24%
\n6. [Anarchy!] TOSCANO, Joseph: 204 \/ 0.75%
\n7. *WHITEHEAD, Adrian: 165 \/ 0.61%
\n8. [Democracy!] *COLLYER, David James (Democrats): 160 \/ 0.59%
\n9. [Communism!] O’CONNOR, Patrick (Socialist Equality Party): 148 \/ 0.54%
\n10. [Secularism] PERKINS, John (Secular Party of Australia): 139 \/ 0.51%
\n11. [Constitutionalism] SCHOREL-HLAVKA, Gerrit Hendrik: 64 \/ 0.23%<\/p>\n

In the three-way race (2009) between Toscano, Patten and Collyer, Patten is again<\/a> coming first, with Toscano second and Collyer bringing up the rear. Sex Patten has also managed to again defeat Stephen Mayne: in Patten v Mayne v Whitehead, results are very similar to those of 2010.<\/p>\n