All The Chaos Of Election Day Retold Through The Best Tweets
"F**K YEAH "THE COALITION CAN NOT FORM GOVERNMENT" TAKE ME ANTONY GREEN I'M YOURS."
The election campaign may have only officially stretched for six weeks, but J H Christ it felt like a lifetime.
Today, Australians that forgot to vote early shuffled to public school halls and town halls across the land, scribbled their democratic right on a piece of pale green paper and promptly popped off for a sausage.
Happy Antony Green appreciation day to all who observe
— Andrew Brown (@AndrewBrownAU) May 20, 2022
Polls had the two major parties essentially neck-and-neck coming into election day, although political pundits seemed to be tipping Labor early in the evening across the news channels. As the evening went on, it was confirmed that Anthony Albanese would prevail and become PM. Scott Morrison conceded in a desperate and breathless speech in the Fullerton hotel in Sydney, while Albo took victory in a crowded and jubilant room in the inner west.
Of course, it wouldn’t be election day without a fair amount of bullshit — from Morrison cravenly trying to kickstart a scare campaign by announcing a boat had been intercepted off the coast of Australia, to last-minute court appeals over signage.
Then, there were the broadcasts. With Channel Nine introducing the ‘Big Boot’ at the 2019 election, expectations were high for what dastardly graphics would be pulled out this year throughout the vote count.
There were also some cracking jokes. Have a scroll through some of the best tweets and reactions to the election that was.
Spotted at a polling booth in Wentworth. #auspol pic.twitter.com/ZoTtrynpEF
— Andrea Crothers (@abcrothers) May 20, 2022
Local resident Jim Finn, holding 8-month old daughter Allegra Finn, casts his ballot on the morning of the national election at a Bondi Beach polling station in Sydney, Australia. Photo by @Lelliottphoto #AusVotes22 pic.twitter.com/KDrnDPwHKE
— corinne_perkins (@corinne_perkins) May 21, 2022
There were no Libs, UAP or PHON volunteers on my booth so I wasn’t able to deploy my patented “not a chance” when they tried to hand me a how-to-vote :(
— Rob Stott (@Rob_Stott) May 21, 2022
We should change “above the line” and “below the line” to “tops” and “bottoms”
— Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) May 21, 2022
The last minute UAP texts are getting desperate #AusVotes22 #auspol pic.twitter.com/WueKEaiRps
— Tegan Jones (@Tegan_Writes) May 21, 2022
I give you my father, one nation voter, rubbing it in to me, greens voter. Oh how will I cope. pic.twitter.com/qUfTQrnWGu
— Australia Syndrome (@austsyndrome) May 21, 2022
i feel like australia is very desperate to make the "democracy sausage" our entire personality because otherwise it would just be the racism
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) May 21, 2022
warning citizen. a boat has passed our ironclad defence curtain. head to your nearest polling place to vote LIBERAL to issue SHOOT TO KILL authorisation
— james hennessy (@jrhennessy) May 21, 2022
Lowest of the low, total scum. It says everything that "on water matters" cant be discussed unless there's an election they're trying to win. fuck off an die https://t.co/GjNsJzakIO
— Jim Malo (@thejimmalo) May 21, 2022
the Liberals trying to manufacture an eleventh hour “boat scare” on that day of the election is rotten but also embarrassingly desperate lol
— Joshua Badge (@joshuabadge) May 21, 2022
Then the results started to roll in…
FUCK YEAH MAYBE TIM WILSON CAN USE HIS SUPER TO BUY HIMSELF A BOX OF TISSUES
— Nadine von Cohen (@nadinevoncohen) May 21, 2022
i love it when my enemies the labor party are ousted by my friends the greens, and when my enemies the liberal party are ousted by my friends the labor party
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) May 21, 2022
suckshitkatherinedeves suckshitdavesharma suckshitterributler suckshitpeterdutton [deep breath] suckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshitsuckshit
— Jim Malo (@thejimmalo) May 21, 2022
bye cunt https://t.co/tG5jJwlAdp
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) May 21, 2022
I'm so pumped for WA results. pic.twitter.com/RD8s1k389B
— Kara Schlegl (@karaschlegl) May 21, 2022
There was a lot of chat about the size of the screens, and fury towards the panellist on the ABC that didn’t turn off their phone.
okay, whoever on the ABC #ausvotes panel STILL hasn't turned their phone to silent owes everyone a slab. like, everyone. in the country, at this point.
— Anna Vidot (@AnnaVidot) May 21, 2022
Someone on the ABC forgot to put their phone on silent #AusVotes22
— Josh Taylor (@joshgnosis) May 21, 2022
frankly i do not think the ABC's big screen is big enough..
— courtney gould (@heyycourtt) May 21, 2022
The real winner tonight is LED screens.
— Zan Rowe (@zanrowe) May 21, 2022
Always live for the people standing behind politicians during interviews on election night. pic.twitter.com/nNZWCVeMiU
— Avani Dias (@AvaniDias) May 21, 2022
And then…
FUCK YEAH "THE COALITION CAN NOT FORM GOVERNMENT" TAKE ME ANTONY GREEN I'M YOURS
— Nadine von Cohen (@nadinevoncohen) May 21, 2022
#AusVotes22 pic.twitter.com/hOxVzsDDeR
— Junkee (@junkee) May 21, 2022
Breaking: @abcnews #auspol #AusVotes22 pic.twitter.com/lV27D3vyur
— Michael Rowland (@mjrowland68) May 21, 2022
Being the next PM of Australia… #ausvotes pic.twitter.com/M7yFvihtKz
— Dean Nye (@Dean_Nye) May 21, 2022
I was about to quit anyway
— Scott Morrison Former PM of Australia (parody) (@ScottyFromMktg) May 21, 2022
What a night to be in Australia!
— Nigella Lawson (@Nigella_Lawson) May 21, 2022
really something losing like 10 seats to climate independents and now there’s nobody but peter dutton who can lead you party
— abraham bloodshack 🏗 (@pleasedontatme) May 21, 2022
In Scott Morrison's concession speech he thanked: the defence force, police and tradies (as well as Australians at large)
He did not thank any of the frontline workers who got Australia through the pandemic, teachers, nurses, health workers or aged care workers.— Amy Remeikis (@AmyRemeikis) May 21, 2022
And then…Albo took to the stage.
Not gonna lie, kids of single mums on welfare can’t help but be moved by this.
— Benjamin Law 羅旭能 (@mrbenjaminlaw) May 21, 2022
Reckon Albo has saved his best speech of the campaign for victory #ausvotes
— Andrew Stafford (@staffo_sez) May 21, 2022
When is the first flight to Biloela? Asking for quite a few million Australians.
— Bernard Zuel (@BernardZuel) May 21, 2022
Lovely to see a prime minister commit to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, being emotional, and highlighting that his government will be “caring” #ausvotes
— Tory Shepherd (@ToryShepherd) May 21, 2022
And @AlboMP is crying.
— Louise Milligan (@Milliganreports) May 21, 2022
Will do! https://t.co/sacYKvgFNr
— Patrick Marlborough (@Cormac_McCafe) May 21, 2022
This speech is such a contrast from 2019 when Scott Morrison went around listing all the marginal seats he’d won
— Kishor (@kishor_nr) May 21, 2022
Meanwhile, Shorten was back on his bullshit.
SHORTEN vs SANGA: The former Labor leader has once again shown just how he devours his #DemocracySausage, by chomping into it from the middle, rather than the end. #9News #AusVotes pic.twitter.com/ZXT5tUOi2j
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) May 21, 2022