Politics

People Are Roasting the One Nation Party For Their Dismal Election Results

"Even my toilet has more seats than you now"

by Patrick Lenton  26 November 2017
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It looks like One Nation has had their butts firmly handed to them in the Queensland state elections. While counting will continue for a few days, so far the party has failed to pick up a single seat, and people are DELIGHTED.

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson spent much of this week predicting that her party would have a resurgence in Queensland, and potentially gain the balance of power in the state, based off a hypothesised hung parliament result. This has failed to occur, which has led to a rash of roastings online.

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At the end of counting last night Labor was expected to have won 43 seats, the LNP 38 and the Katter party two. One Nation has received just 12% of all first preference votes so far and its leader Steve Dickson, has lost his seat of Buderim. Former federal Senator Malcolm Roberts, fresh from being ejected from the High Court, has also failed in an attempt to take a state seat in Ipswich.

However, Pauline Hanson has refused to concede spiritual defeat, and instead spinning hope from the still-dispiriting amount of votes that One Nation has received. As she told reporters last night:

“We are going to be around for a while yet – I’ve still got my Senate seat for another four-and-a-half years, and I do believe that in the vote that we have received across Queensland in this election there is a great potential for One Nation to win Senate seats across Queensland.”

While it’s fun to gloat, there are some takeaways from this thorough trouncing, such as making sure that One Nation isn’t overrepresented in the nation’s discourse.

We can also be sure that One Nation and Hanson will manage to find a silver lining to the dark cloud that has covered their recent election loss.