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Volume 7, Wednesday March 24, 2010
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Rann returned? L Member for Giles, Lyn Breuer
a b o r ’s o n l y country elected representative, Lyn Breuer was swept back into office in the seat of Giles following last Saturday’s cliff hanger election.
Provisional results show Ms Breuer polled 63.1 per cent of the vote on the two party preferred vote against new Liberal challenger Chad Oldfield who polled 36.9 on provisionsal figures. Ms Breuer who has held the seat since 1997, bucked the Statewide trend which saw Labor drop 7.8 percent and narrowly hold onto Government with an expected five seat majority as of late on Monday. “I am pretty happy with the result,” Ms Breuer told The Monitor on Monday. “I had about a four per cent swing against me, but I expected there would be some move away over the Whyalla issue.” Ms Breuer said that swing went to the Greens and not to Liberal. “The result shows people must be happy with the job I am doing,” she said. In Roxby Downs the booth went to the Liberals’ Chad Oldfield something not totally unexpected because he is a local and well known in the area. However, he also polled well to win booths in Andamooka, Hawker, Kimba, Quorn, and Woomera in the two party preferred provisional result. Ms Breuer said Roxby has always been up and down for her. She won it in 2006 and lost it this time. In her stronghold booths in and around Whyalla Lyn Breuer’s lead was unassailable. She won in all the booths in Whyalla and took the booths of Coober Pedy, Iron Knob and also the Far North Mobile booth. For Chad Oldfield, this election was a learning curve for the 2014 poll when Lyn Breuer is likely to retire. “This was definitely a good preparation for next election
in four years. I have learned a lot. “Five per cent is a good margin to pick up and we still have a lot of post votes to follow up,” Mr Oldfield told The Monitor. “I rang Lyn on Sunday to congratulate her for her victory and I am looking forward to help her on any issues she has in Roxby Downs.” Mr Oldfield said, I want to thank voters who supported me and we will keep holding the Labor Party accountable for the next four years.” With almost 100,000 postal votes to be counted this week, three marginal seats are still in the balance and the outcome will see either Labor ruling in its own right, or in the other scenario a hung parliament with independents playing a key role in forming Government. Premier Rann, who popularity took a dive during the election campaign, is confident Labor will be returned for a third consecutive term of office equalling the reigns of previous Labor Governments under Don Dunstan and John Bannon. 2010 PROVISIONAL ELECTION RESULTS FOR THE SEAT OF GILES
As at March 21, 1.22 am
CANDIDATE Party Votes
%
MELVILLE-SMITH, Andrew GRN 1998 13.3 KAMINSKI, Cheryl FFP 887 5.9 OLDFIELD, Chad LIB 4095 27.2 BREUER, Lyn ALP 8050 53.6 INFORMAL
481 3.1
TWO PARTY PREFERRED PROVISIONAL NUMBERS
OLDFIELD, Chad LIB 5297 36.9 BREUER, Lyn ALP 9073 63.1
Casting his vote last Saturday with a little moral support from his daughter Georgia is first time Liberal candidate, Chad Oldfield from Roxby Downs.