Talk:2019 Australian federal election

Infobox
We've now got Prime Minister after election (via Rfcs) for infoboxes of British & Canadian general/federal election articles. What's the view here, of changing Subsequent Prime Minister to Prime Minister after election, for Australian federal election articles? GoodDay (talk) 16:55, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Majority
I see the old disagreement about the size of a majority has arisen again. This seems to take place in the edit comments but I don't know if a discussion or consensus has taken place, so thought we should raise it here.

The two schools of thought are:
 * With 77 seats, the Morrison government holds a three-seat majority in the 151-seat House of Reps, because the majority is worked out by subtracting the number of seats held from the remainder of seats: 77 − (151 − 77) = 3.
 * With 77 seats, the Morrison government holds a two-seat majority, because 76 seats is the required number for a one-seat majority and they have one more than that.

You can find references for both:
 * "Three-seat majority": Adrian Beaumont (The Conversation), Antony Green, Kevin Bonham
 * "Two-seat majority": SBS News, The Canberra Times, SMH

Election analysts and statisticians appear to adhere to the three-seat option, but there are several media references to two seats. My opinion is we should defer to expertise (of the election analysts and statisticians) in this case.

It should also be noted that if three seats should prevail, the working majority in the House would be two seats after the appointment of the Speaker (Reuters). --Canley (talk) 23:45, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Excerpted results
no information was deleted by this edit. What I did was use Excerpt to have the same results transcluded from Results of the 2019 Australian federal election (Senate) so that the information is kept at one article & remains consistent across both articles. --Find bruce (talk) 02:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * OK. This is the first time in my over 70 years I have seen the word excerpt used as a vowel. I suspect my English teachers would be rolling in their graves. Sorry for not understanding. HiLo48 (talk) 02:44, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * According to the Oxford Dictionary, "excerpt" has been used as a verb since the middle sixteenth century.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:12, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Never mind the grammar - my 2 word edit summary was lazy & did not achieve the purpose of a brief explanation of my edit, setting out what & why. I will try to do better Find bruce (talk) 03:34, 8 June 2022 (UTC)