State seat of Whitsunday in big trouble

If a QLD State election were to be called tomorrow, Jan Jarratt, the ALP MP for the Queensland state seat of Whitsunday would be very worried.

Comparing the Individual Polling Booth Results that are both in Dawson (2010 Federal) and Whitsunday (2009 State).

Over one third of Ms Jarratt's supporters have 'jumped ship' in the Tourism and Sugar focused state electorate in North Queensland in just 12 months - with the Greens and LNP being the main beneficiaries.
 

Airlie Beach : ALP down 50%+ 

Political Marketing Formula:
Z=YPG
(Z=% swing against)
(Y=Photos in paper)
(P=Politicians)
(G=Groupies)
 
A much publicised campaign by Peter O'Reilly, CEO
of Tourism Whitsundays, who claimed that he would use 'his muscle power' during the campaign as a bargaining tool, may have contributed to the booth that has seen the ALP lose over half its base in twelve months.

Mr O'Reilly appears to enjoy the company of candidates and politicians, but only from the Australian Labor Party.

It appears that the more Tourism Whitsundays & Enterprise Whitsundays dragged politicians and wannabes out for an issue, the more it will backfire.

This dramatic desertion of ALP support in Airlie Beach can only be interpreted as displeasure by the public in the management of both Tourism Whitsundays and Enterprise Whitsundays.

It appears our RTO has done our region another bad blow by aligning with the wrong team.

Below are the 'Booth by Booth' results for every booth that is both located in the Federal seat of Dawson, and the State seat of Whitsunday. The numbers are in percentages. The 2010 results are from the recent Federal election, and the 2009 results are from the Queensland State election.

Polling Booth	ALP 2010	ALP 2009	GRN 2010	GRN 2009	LNP 2010	LNP 2009
Airlie Beach	22.31	46.94	17.40	9.61	54.44	43.45
Beaconsfield	44.43	53.68	9.11	8.42	37.62	37.89
Bloomsbury	27.51	30.87	6.43	6.07	60.93	63.06
Brisbane	29.69	38.24	15.63	14.71	50.00	47.06
Bucasia	44.81	56.68	4.07	5.53	39.15	37.79
Calen	32.08	39.60	7.08	6.19	55.53	54.20
Cannonvale Beach	26.31	48.66	16.14	7.78	51.29	43.55
Coningsby	31.88	44.97	6.32	3.63	54.35	51.40
Conway Beach	28.10	44.89	7.84	2.27	58.17	52.84
Dingo Beach	29.92	47.83	4.33	5.31	54.72	46.86
Eimeo	40.47	55.17	9.54	5.04	44.39	39.79
Emmanuel	39.20	53.65	7.35	4.05	49.31	42.30
Farleigh	32.26	42.74	4.49	4.63	52.35	52.63
Fitzgerald	40.28	49.63	8.12	4.49	44.75	45.89
Glenella	39.26	55.80	7.78	4.50	48.57	39.70
Habana	31.12	46.01	7.73	5.88	57.73	48.11
Hamilton Island	30.77	55.94	15.03	11.39	51.40	32.67
Hayman Island		58.97		5.13		35.90
Kuttabul	35.93	43.51	6.79	6.49	49.10	50.00
Mount Julian		42.86		6.98		50.17
Mount Ossa	25.00	27.11	4.79	4.22	62.77	68.67
Proserpine	34.34	46.04	7.02	3.90	51.16	50.05
Proserpine Hospital	30.72	44.25	7.47	4.25	54.33	51.50
Seaforth	39.42	45.92	4.73	5.48	50.85	48.60

The people have spoken. Maybe a federal investigation into our RTO's to see how politicised they really are may be a good idea?