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Let’s have a quick look at the upper house. We’ve got less than 20% of the vote counted, so it’s quite early, but we do have a sense of how the bigger parties are performing.



The Coalition is sitting on 7.3 quotas, with Labor on 6.2 quotas. The Greens are just over two quotas, with One Nation on 1.4 quotas and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers on 1.3 quotas. That adds up to 17 out of 21 seats decided on primary votes, assuming the percentages don’t change dramatically.



Fred Nile’s Christian Democratic party is on 0.45 quotas while Animal Justice is on 0.37 quotas.



But there’s over 13% of the vote in the “others” pile. This includes all below-the-line votes, above-the-line votes for other groups, and informal votes with markings on the paper.



We don’t have a sense of the primary vote for Keep Sydney Open, Sustainable Australia, Liberal Democratic party or Jeremy Buckingham.



We do get a little bit of a sense by looking at the lower house primary votes. Sustainable Australia, which ran in 58 out of 93 seats, are on 1.5% of the vote. Keep Sydney Open are running in 42 out of 93 seats and have polled 1.3% so far. It seems entirely possible that either party could poll over 2% and have a chance at winning one of the final upper house seats.