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GREG Hunt and his wife Paula were surrounded by jubilant supporters soon after early counting showed he had been re-elected as MP for Flinders. Picture: Gary Sissons
Hunt safe, but support drops Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au GREG Hunt has been re-elected to the federal seat of Flinders, although his majority has been pared back to single figures. On the latest available figures Mr Hunt holds his seat with a majority of just over seven per cent. He won the previous election with an 11.8 per cent margin. When counting ended on Saturday night Mr Hunt was in the lead with a comfortable 56.9 per cent of the 78.6
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per cent of votes counted. On preferences there was a 4.9 per cent swing to Labor’s Carolyn Gleixner, but Mr Hunt’s lead remains one of which many of his colleagues can only dream about. However, the combined efforts of Ms Gleixner, Willisa Hogarth (The Greens) and Ben Wild (Animal Justice Party) have succeeded in paring back Mr Hunt’s safe lead to single figures. But there is no way Flinders can be regarded a marginal as a result. The seat has been held almost continuously by the Liberal since 1972, with just one small blip, in 1983
when it briefly went to Labor’s Bob Chynoweth who defeated Liberal Peter Reith. On Sunday Mr Hunt said he was honoured to have been re-elected and now saw the government’s “task� as being to “deliver on our commitments and to fight for other inmportant projects in the electorate, such as development of the Rosebud hospital�. Mr Hunt was also “pleased to see Chris Crewther as the [Liberal] member for Dunkley�. Mr Hunt, 50, has held the seat since 2001. As Environment Minister he became
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