Early results for the Senate shows what many had been predicting - the Democrats look to be on their way to election annihilation.
Senators Andrew Murray and Natasha Stott-Despoja are retiring at this election, which left Andrew Bartlett and Lyn Allison fighting for their seats in Qld and Vic respectively.
In Qld, with just under 23 per cent of the vote counted, the Democrats are polling about 1.9 per cent of the vote, less than Family First (2.41 per cent) and Pauline Hanson's United Party (4.67 per cent).
The Nationals' Ron Boswell is looking like hanging on and the Liberals and the ALP are looking good for the other five seats.
In Vic, in a similar story, but there, over 60 per cent of the vote is counted. The Dems are polling 1.6 per cent of the vote, behind Family First (2.64 per cent) and the Greens (9.84 per cent).
Labor and the Liberals look like claiming all six seats in Victoria.