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LABOR candidate for Frankston Paul Edbrooke (centre front row) looks on course to win the seat for his party but there are still votes to be counted. Daniel Andrews will be the next premier of Victoria after Labor’s weekend state election win. Picture: Gary Sissons
Labor on track for win
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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
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a state level on Saturday, the outcome remained less clear cut in Frankston at the weekend. The Victorian Electoral Commission reported Mr Edbrooke was leading with 35.6 per cent of the primary vote on Saturday, with the Liberals’ Sean Armistead at 35.5 per cent as The Times went to press. It seemed likely Labor’s Paul Edbrooke will be Frankston’s next member of parliament based on the votes
already tallied. Early votes and postal votes were still to be counted. The Frankston contest is officially still “too close to call” but election analysts such as the ABC’s Antony Green declared the seat a Labor gain late on Saturday evening. The ABC elections numbers cruncher said there would be “too much leakage” on preferences for Liberal candidate Sean Armistead to prevail. Continued Page 8
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