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Kilkenny keeps Carrum CARRUM MP Sonya Kilkenny celebrates her comfortable re-election with a crowd of supporters on Saturday night. Picture: Gary Sissons
Labor supporters celebrate retained seats Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au LABOR has comfortably retained the seats of Carrum, Mordialloc, and Frankston on its way to a decisive election win. The state government has been returned with a majority in the lower house. It is projected to retain its “sandbelt” seats despite a swing towards the Liberals in each.
Carrum MP Sonya Kilkenny has won a third term in office. As of 28 November she leads Liberal candidate Bec Buchanan by 10.5 per cent on a two-partypreferred basis. In Carrum the Greens have so far received 7.1 per cent of the first preference vote. The Freedom Party have secured 4.1 per cent. All other candidates have received less than three per cent of first preference votes. Kilkenny thanked her supporters on social media after her comprehensive
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win. “Thank you for re-electing me as your member of parliament for the Carrum district. I am forever grateful. I will keep delivering what matters to our local community today, tomorrow and every day after that,” she said. During the last term Kilkenny was made minister for corrections, youth justice, and fishing and boating. There was a 5.7 per cent swing towards the Liberals in Mordialloc, but it wasn’t enough to topple sitting MP Tim Richardson. With 76.7 per cent of the
vote counted, Richardson remains 7.6 per cent of Liberal Phillip Pease on the two-party-preferred count. As of 28 November Greens candidate for Mordialloc Daniel Lessa has received 9.7 per cent of the first preference vote. Independent Sarah O’Donnell has received nearly 8 percent of first preferences. Labor is pledging to remove all level crossings on the Frankston train line by 2029. Its election also secures the future of the suburban rail loop, which is pro-
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posed to start from a new Cheltenham Station at Sir William Fry Reserve. During this term, supporters of the sandbelt parklands proposal will look to the state government to fulfill its promise to create the project. The state government committed to the chain of parks prior to its 2018 re-election. In November the state government confirmed it had purchased 83 hectares of land in Heatherton and Clayton South to create linked parks. Continued page 2