State government election - tick, federal government election, tick.
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It would seem that voting for our leaders in the Wingecarribee is little more than a formality.
Certainly voting for the people who will represent us at government levels is an important task - but all would be forgiven for being sick of hearing the election information at the moment.
No sooner was the state election over and the federal government election was in full swing.
It is a scenario that has the potential to diminish the interests of even the most politically savvy voter.
Especially for those voters in the Wingecarribee Shire where the campaigning, the promises and the result was pretty much more of the same.
As with the State Election, the shire was once again divided into two electorates for the federal government vote - Hume and Whitlam.
In another similarity both electorates have long been considered safe seats - Labor has long had a stronghold on Whitlam (formerly Throsby) while Liberal voters seem beholden to the Hume electorate.
And with the latest vote count all but wrapped up it would seem nothing much has changed for the Wingecarribee residents, regardless of what side of the electoral boundary you sit.
The outcome is an easy win for both Labor's Stephen Jones in Whitlam and Liberal's Angus Taylor in the Hume electorate... both under the control of a returning LIberal National Coalition government
Both are returning to a seat they have held for some time - Jones was first elected to the seat of Whitlam in 2010, and Taylor has been the MP for the seat of Hume since 2013.
The latest voting results reiterate the safe seat reference for both electorates. Jones was returned with 49.44 per cent of the vote.
This was a slight drop of 3.32 per cent on his previous run to the top job for the electorate, but a significant win all the same.
Taylor locked in 53.51 per cent of the vote in the Hume electorate a slight drop of 0.31 per cent, but clearly nothing for concern in the Liberal camp.
The good news is that both elections are now over and there are no more elections on the horizon...at least for 2019.
Perhaps the biggest message, first coined by automotive tycoon Henry Ford, is that "if you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got."
