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The National Party’s Kim O’Keefe looks to have secured Shepparton from independent Suzanna Sheed with more than 78 per cent of the vote counted.
The counting will continue but it appears the Nationals are on track to regain this regional seat.
G’day everyone. It’s Roy Ward here and I’m taking over our election live blog for the remainder of this lovely Sunday.
I hope you are all going well and, hopefully, receiving some sunshine. I want to give a huge thanks and well done to Ashleigh McMillan who has powered through the blog shifts throughout this election weekend.
Please continue to leave comments on the blog and enjoy the afternoon to come.
An internal rift has erupted within the Nationals after Gippsland South MP Danny O’Brien told ABC radio that his party should reconsider whether it remains in coalition with the Liberals in the next term of parliament.
If you’ve followed along today, you would already know that O’Brien said the possibility of separating the Nationals and the Liberal Party had to be “on the table” after the Liberals’ electoral struggles.
The Gippsland MP said both parties needed to consider the best choice going forward, considering it would be difficult for them to win an election even in four years time.
Nationals leader Peter Walsh rebuked O’Brien and told The Age he was “outside his remit totally in making those comments”.
“To form a government in Victoria, the Liberals and Nationals need to work together,” Walsh said.
At the moment, the make-up of Victoria’s lower house is 52 Labor seats, 23 Coalition seats, four Greens seats and nine electorates still to call.
No independent MPs have been elected to Victoria’s Legislative Assembly so far.
The most recently called race was Morwell in Victoria’s south-east, where it looks like Nationals candidate Martin Cameron will best Labor’s Kate Maxwell once preferences are counted.
Earlier today, both Caulfield and Croydon were called for the Liberal Party.
The Liberal Party remains locked in a tight race to hold four battleground seats under siege from teal independents and Labor, as counting continued today.
With 72 per cent of the vote counted in the inner-Melbourne seat of Kew, Liberal candidate Jess Wilson was slightly ahead of teal candidate Sophie Torney in the seat, which was previously held by outspoken former MP Tim Smith.
Jess Wilson, the Liberal candidate for Kew and former staffer to Josh Frydenberg. Credit:Eamon Gallagher
Labor has lost the neighbouring seat of Hawthorn, which remains on a knife edge between Liberal candidate John Pesutto and teal independent Melissa Lowe.
Pesutto edged ahead today on postal votes. With 70 per cent of the vote counted, Pesutto led by 480 votes at 10am today with postal votes expected to favour the Liberal Party.
The Liberal candidate for Hawthorn is a touted as a potential Liberal Party leader after Matthew Guy announced on Sunday he would not recontest.
Several Liberal MPs told The Age Pesutto had already reached out to some members of the party room to canvass support for a leadership bid, should he win.
Liberal MP Brad Battin is also expected to contest any leadership contest, confirming to ABC radio that his ambition for the top job hasn’t gone away after his unsuccessful bid in 2021.
Brad Battin resigned from his shadow portfolios after his tilt at the leadership failed in 2021.Credit:Justin McManus
He said we would support any leader who can “build, commit and stay on track” and would be the “best for the Victorian Liberal Party”.
Victorian Greens Leader Samantha Ratnam has just spoken to journalists in central Melbourne today.
She derided suggestions from the Labor Party that Greens candidates were only elected because of Liberal Party preferencing, saying they have won seats “because voters care about issues we were willing to engage them on”.
Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam with husband Colin Jacobs and daughter Malala, 2, yesterday.Credit:Eddie Jim
“The progressive vote rise right across the city. Our aim was to secure enough first preference votes to be able to prevail in these seats and that’s exactly what we’ve done so far,” Ratnam said.
“The counts are very, very close, and we will wait over the next few days to see where all those things land. But we haven’t had to rely on Liberal preferences for any of our MPs to get elected.”
At the moment, the Greens have four seats confirmed in the lower house: Melbourne, Brunswick, Prahran and Richmond. Candidates from the Greens are also still in contention in Preston and Northcote, with those seats yet to be called.
They’re also likely to win at least one more additional upper house seat, with Ratnam saying the Greens are in a “powerful” position to champion progressive policies.
We’re now on track to be in a position to be the balance of power in the upper house within the Victorian Parliament. Legislation needs both houses of parliament to get through, and we are willing to work constructively and co-operatively with this Labor government to get really progressive reform in areas like climate, housing and integrity.
We will still wait for that count to be finalised, but we could end up with as many as four or maybe even five in the upper house. Let’s wait and see.
Victorian Greens Leader Samantha Ratnam spoke to reporters outside Victoria’s parliament just after 12pm.
Watch the full press conference below.
Simon Holmes a Court told ABC Radio this morning that the right wing of Victorian politics has now been “dragged” away from a platform of climate denial, as he weighed up the success of teal independents across the state.
Climate 200, the fundraising vehicle Holmes a Court founded, backed independent candidates in the seats of Hawthorn, Kew, Mornington and Caulfield.
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes a Court.Credit:Kristoffer Paulsen
Hawthorn still remains too close to call between teal independent Melissa Lowe and Liberal John Pesutto. Mornington is also going down to the wire, with just 0.4 per cent separating Liberal candidate Chris Crewther and independent Dr Kate Lardner.
Polling suggests Liberal David Southwick will retain Caulfield despite the challenge of independent Nomi Kaltmann and Labor’s Lior Harel.
Here’s what Holmes a Court said some time earlier.
Make no mistake, this is another climate election like May [the federal election].
We saw great endorsements for strong pro-climate policies, and the Liberal Party was dragged from a climate-denial platform to a pro-climate platform. So, big success from a meta view.
This was the first [time] the community-run independents ran at a state level.
It’s really great to see three campaigns very competitive in those [metropolitan Melbourne] seats. Whether they’ve got over the wall or not, it’s certainly built a ladder right up to the top.
Returning briefly to Premier Daniel Andrews’ press conference this morning, and he’s promised to work with communities where the vote swung against Labor members.
In Broadmeadows, there was a 9 per cent swing towards the Liberals, while Labor’s Energy Minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, withstood a swing of more than 14 per cent in favour of her challenger in Mill Park.
“When it comes to some of those results, there’s some work to do in those communities, and I will do that very important work,” the premier said.
Andrews noted that some attributed swings against Labor in Melbourne’s north and west to many people living in those electorates not being able to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This has been a quite unprecedented event in Australia’s history, and different families, different people, different communities have experienced this in different ways,” he said.
“We have to be alive to that, and we have to respect it ... I acknowledge this has not been a uniform experience.”
Andrews said that in a discussion with his wife Catherine, he resolved not to do what was “popular, but what was right”.
A Victorian Nationals MP says the possibility of splitting up the Coalition in Victoria has to be “on the table” after the Liberals’ disastrous election result.
Danny O’Brien, the Nationals MP for Gippsland South, told ABC Radio while there had not yet been any conversations on the matter, he believed it was worth considering whether the Nationals and Liberal Party should be decoupled.
Matthew Guy on the campaign trail with Danny O’Brien and Liberal candidate Simmone Cuttim.Credit:Chris Hopkins
“We need to think about what best is not just for us, but for the Liberal Party. Obviously, they’re going to go through a fair bit of soul-searching in coming days and weeks and months,” he said.
“We performed very well, it was a great outcome for the Nationals across regional Victoria. But ultimately, we want to be able to deliver from the government benches for the people of rural and regional Victoria, and we’re not going to be able to, obviously, for the next four years.
“It’s going to be tough even at the next election too, so I think we need to be considering what the best options are for us ... [splitting the Coalition] has got to be on the table.”
As we’ve already reported, the Nationals had success in regional Victoria yesterday, likely clinching the seats of Mildura, Morwell and Shepparton back from independents.
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