Council Election results - early days

You can go to this page and check the early results for the Council Elections.

http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/home.htm

Wingecarribee Shire results:

Summary of First Preference Votes
Group		Group/Party/IND	FP Votes	Quota Ratio	% Formal Votes
A	Group Votes		2,238	1.04	10.45%
B	Group Votes		919	0.43	4.29%
C	Group Votes	ALP	2,661	1.24	12.42%
D	Group Votes	GNS	2,152	1.00	10.05%
E	Group Votes	LP	3,530	1.65	16.48%
F	Group Votes		2,323	1.08	10.84%
G	Group Votes		1,901	0.89	8.87%
H	Group Votes		987	0.46	4.61%
I	Group Votes		1,512	0.71	7.06%
	Ungrouped		3,198	1.49	14.93%
Total Formal Votes Counted			21,421
Total Informal Votes			2,655
Progressive Total Ordinary Votes			24,076

Readers outside of this wonderful patch of Democratic Heartland can check their own Council results on this Index Page:
http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/lge-index.htm

Sydney people will know by now that Clover Moore has "shit it in" as they say.
Go Clover:
Keep on annoying Alan Jones;
and keep on "Destroying the Joint".

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Incidentally, for the statistically inclined of you (OK at least one reader)

I am about to do the sums on Quotas.

quota

The number of votes required by a candidate to be elected to the Legislative Council or a Councillor at Local Government Election. It is calculated by adding one to the result of the total number of formal votes divided by the number of vacancies plus one then rounding up any decimals. See proportional representation

Formal Votes obviously get counted (sorted) firstly.
21,421 divided by 9 = 2380 plus one vote = 2381

So, at the end of counting on Day 1 Groups A, C, D, E, F  and Duncan Gair (inside the Ungrouped "group") are all assured of election.
The largest cluster of "spare votes" to be distributed is with the L:iberal Party (Group E).
There has been a split in the Liberal Party (if not two splits - with former Councillor Stranger  running on his own ticket Group B. With another "split" after Juliet Arkwright named her ticket. So how those "spare votes" get distributed is critical to the outcome of the election.