Mulgrave (Vic, ALP vs IND 10.8, ALP vs Lib 10.2)
Vacancy for resignation of Daniel Andrews (ALP)
Vacancy for resignation of Daniel Andrews (ALP)
ALP Retain (Called 9:40 pm)
Final 2PP swing was 5.5% but Liberals unexpectedly finished third after preferences!
Large (just over 10%) primary swing against Labor, but going to left as well as right.
Normal by-election 2PP swing result for vacating Premier, but finishing third is embarrassing for Liberals.
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Tuesday 27th The final result is in - the Liberals did finish third! The preferences from the Libertarian candidate with the donkey vote on board (but not at all just for that reason) flowed exceptionally strongly to Cook (61% vs 11% to Liberals) putting him close enough to just overtake Mann on Green preferences at the end by 158 votes. However the Liberal 2PP (45.33) is still much higher than the Ian Cook 2CP (43.51).
7:20 Sunday The VEC will not realign the preferences before the preference distribution so we'll be waiting for postals to get the final margin and the expected confirmation that the Liberals were second, probably in a bit over a week.
