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RATNAM LOOKS TO LOSE WILLS TILT
■ Greens candidate Samantha Ratnam appears to have lost her bid to take the Coburgbased seat of Wills held by Labor’s Peter Khalil. Mr Khalil had a 51.58 per cent share, with Dr Ratnam attracting 48.42 per cent. Dr Ratnam stood down from her Victorian Upper House to contesrt the Federal seat. Wills takes in the suburbs of Brunswick, Brunswick East, Brunswick West, Coburg, Coburg North, Fawkner, Fitzroy North, Glenroy, Hadfield, Oak Park, Parkville, Pascoe Vale and Pascoe Vale South. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese swept back into power with a convincing win in l;ast weekend’s Federal Election. Melbourne’s North-West proved to be a stronghold with victories across the region. ■ Basem Abdo won the Calwell seat. Independent Carly Moore, a Hume Councillor, attracted 7972 votes (11.87 per cent). ■ Ged Kearney was returned to Cooper, with a 59.97 per cent vote share. ■ Daniel Mulino achieved a 61.44 per cent share in the seat of Fraser. ■ In Gellibrand, Labor’s Tim Watts won 65.08 per cent of votes on a Two Candidate Preferred basis. In the outer-west seat of Gorton, Lsabor’s \Alice Ordan-Baird won. Sam Rae was returned to the seat of Hawke.
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■ Labor’s Rob Mitchell has been returned to the Federal seat of McEwen, gaining a 1.06 per cent swing in a contest against the Coalition’s Jason McClintock. Mr Mitchell has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since August 2010, representing the electorate of McEwen. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2006. Mr Mitchell garnered a Two-Party Preferred votes of 44,784 (54.88 per cent) against Mr McClintock’s tally of 36,817. In first preference votes, other candidates were: ■ Ali Antoniou, Gerard Rennick’s People First, 2713 (3.32 per cent) ■ Tom Forrest, Legalise Cannabis Partty, 2923 (3.58 per cent) ■ Julio Valencia, Family First, 1\867 (2.29 per cent) ■ Marley McRae-McLeod, The Greens, 9116 votes (11.17 per cent) ■ Jeremy Johnson, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, 5054 (6.19 per cent) ■ Erin McGrath, Fusion, 635 (0.78 per cent). With initial counting, 40214 informal votes (4.69 per cent) were cast). A total of 85,616 votes had been counted.
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