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Way ahead
LABOR candidate for Mordialloc Tim Richardson, left, will be the electorate’s next state member of parliament after defeating Liberal MP Lorraine Wreford at Saturday’s state election. Mr Richardson, 26, will join several new first-term MPs as part of premier-elect Daniel Andrews’, right, incoming Labor government. The Victorian Electoral Commission is recounting votes in the Frankston line seats of Carrum, Frankston and Bentleigh with Labor looking likely to win all three to add to their Mordialloc gain. Picture: Gary Sissons
Labor victory swing Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au LABOR has won government after voters turfed out the Napthine Coalition government at Saturday’s state election. A swing of about 2.5 per cent across Victoria was more than enough to ensure Labor leader Daniel Andrews will be the state’s next premier.
Dr Denis Napthine, who succeeded Ted Baillieu as premier in 2013 without facing the state’s voters, expressed “thanks to all Victorians for the great honour and privilege of being the 47th Premier” via a message on social media site Twitter on Sunday. Many political analysts put the Coalition government’s defeat down to “inaction” during Baillieu’s time as premier after he won government
in 2010 but that would provide little comfort to Dr Napthine who became head of the first state government in Victoria’s history to be ousted by voters after just one term. Labor’s victory is a remarkable turnaround for the party and few tipped former Bracks and Brumby governments’ minister Daniel Andrews to lead Labor back to power so quickly after the party’s 2010 loss
after 11 years in government. While Labor was swept to power at a state level on Saturday, the outcome remained less clear cut in Carrum and Frankston early this week although the Mordialloc contest looks done and dusted. Labor candidate for Mordialloc Tim Richardson defeated Liberal MP Lorraine Wreford with an approximate 4.5 per cent swing to Labor with
most votes counted by the Victorian Electoral Commission. Labor candidate Sonya Kilkenny looks likely to succeed Liberal MP Donna Bauer as Carrum’s member of parliament in a tight contest with a recount by the VEC underway as The News went to print. However, the Frankston result remains poised on a knife edge. Continued Page 6
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