HOW WE VOTED

Think back to last November . . . Remember? The children in the water. The fear and loathing. The naked opportunists. The Meet the Candidate nights, the awful TV ads, the junk in your mailbox. Bob Brown being the only voice of reason on TV. Handing out how-to-vote cards in the rain. Those were the days. Election night was monumentally disappointing for the optimists among us who hoped the electorate would see through the Howard Government’s hate campaign. We weren’t keen on Labor either. The good news was that the Greens did wonderfully well nationally, with …. % of the vote.

In Page, John Corkill won an impressive 7.07% of the vote (highest ever Green vote in Page) for the Greens after a strong and intrepid campaign. Thanks all you faithful Clarence people who helped. John was a great candidate for several reasons. He understood clearly from the outset that being a candidate would involve hard work, fatigue and strife. He was accessible and consultative. He was willing to be active and took part in every campaign opportunity that arose. He didn’t spit the dummy when the pressure was on. Now we’re looking for a candidate for the Greens tilt at the State election next March. If you intend to join, please do it before 14 March as our membership book will close for preselections. If you’re interested in being a candidate, contact us at the Environment Centre.

Here’s the result for Page.

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Swing (%)
POLLARD-O'HARA, Kathryn	Independent	1,019	1.61	+1.61
COOPER, Tom	Independent	4,987	7.89	+7.89
LAMPIS, Edda		200	0.32	+0.32
BEHN, Doug	Independent	539	0.85	-0.95
JEFFREYS, Allan	Democrats	1,599	2.53	-0.34
CANALES, Judy	Hemp Party	1,054	1.67	+1.67
FELSCH, Arthur James	Call to Australia	1,127	1.78	+0.52
FLANAGAN, Terry	ALP	18,464	29.22	-6.15
CORKILL, John	Green	4,470	7.07	+2.41
CAUSLEY, Ian	National Party	26,287	41.60	-0.71
GRIFFITHS, Angela	Citizens Electoral Council	109	0.17	+0.17
MATHEW, Marie	Pauline Hanson’s One Nation	3,332	5.27	-5.46

FORMAL		63,187	95.47	-1.93
INFORMAL		2,996	4.53	+1.93
TOTAL		66,183	80.99

HOW WE VOTED

The table shows, by booth, how the Greens fared in the Clarence part of the Page electorate in November. Assuming Green voters remain loyal, we could expect 3.8% of the vote in next year’s State election. We’d like much more than this. A good Greens result in Clarence will need a burst of energy from all our Greens supporters. There are 1015 of us out there!

Booth	Total Votes	Green Votes	Green %

Baryulgil	43	1	2.3
Brooms Head	179	8	4.5
Chatsworth	361	16	4.4
Copmanhurst	353	21	5.9
Corindi	639	36	5.6
Coutts Crossing	567	27	4.8
Cowper	327	9	2.8
Dundurrabin	139	14	10.1
Evans Head	1613	70	4.3
Gilwinga	555	10	1.8
Glenreagh	451	22	4.9
Grafton	1754	74	4.2
Grafton East	1301	42	3.2
Grafton Hospital	293	13	4.4
Grafton North	1706	32	1.9
Grafton South	985	28	2.8
Gulmarred	435	5	1.1
Harwood	277	13	4.7
Iluka	1108	33	3.0
Junction Hill	742	15	2.0
Lawrence	562	18	3.2
Maclean	1588	63	4.0
Maclean Hospital	523	13	2.5
Nymboida	121	29	24.0
Palmers Island	531	17	3.2
Red Rock	164	13	7.9
Southgate	110	3	2.7
Tucabia	332	23	6.9
Ulmarra	564	14	2.5
Vere St	2389	58	2.4
Waterview	918	20	2.2
Westlawn	887	21	2.4
Whiporie	88	6	6.8
Wombah	352	10	2.8
Wooli	485	50	10.3
Yamba	1613	131	8.1
Yamba West	1487	37	2.5
Total	26542	1015	3.8