Victoria’s teal incumbents Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan on track to extend their margins

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Teal independent Monique Ryan has retained her inner-city electorate of Kooyong and is on track to extend her margin in the previously prized Liberal seat.

Ryan had achieved a swing of 2.89 per cent by 10pm on Saturday night in Melbourne’s most affluent electorate, after seeing off Liberal challenger Amelia Hamer.

Monique Ryan enjoying her after-party on Saturday night. Credit: Luis Enrique Ascui

Fellow teal incumbent Zoe Daniel claimed victory in the bayside electorate of Goldstein on Saturday night. She was ahead of Liberal challenger – and former MP – Tim Wilson, gaining a swing of about 2.5 per cent on the two-party preferred vote, with counting to continue.

The Liberals, however, successfully defended the south-west Victorian seat of Wannon from a spirited independent challenge.

But in Monash in south-east Victoria it was still too close to call, with a teal candidate and Labor still in the mix.

Ryan first won Kooyong at the 2022 election and was defending a margin of 2.2 per cent.

To an awaiting crowd of hundreds of supporters crammed into the beer garden at the Auburn Hotel, Ryan beamed as she and her family held up a sign: “Kooyong, we did it!”

“What an amazing, amazing three years. I cannot thank every single one of you enough,” she said.

“As I did in 2022, can I say that I can’t believe the power of this community. I can’t believe what we’ve achieved together.”

In Goldstein, the Elwood Bowls Club reverberated with cheers as Daniel took to the stage to claim victory.

Teal independent Zoe Daniel claims victory in Goldstein.Credit: Penny Stephens

“What we have created in this community is rare,” Daniel told her jubilant supporters. “We might not have a minority government, but I’m pretty sure we can pull some levers.

“This has been incredibly hard, but we did it.”

In Wannon, Liberal incumbent Dan Tehan was on track to hold his seat after fending off a fierce challenge from Climate 200-backed independent Alex Dyson.

Tehan was defending a 3.8 per cent margin after the 2022 election and had gathered just over 42 per cent of the primary vote by about 10.30pm on Saturday.

Dan Tehan with Dutton at a campaign event in Melbourne in April.Credit: James Brickwood

He told the Nine Network he had worked his “backside off” over the past three years in his electorate.

“I’ve never worked harder in my life,” he said.

Tehan said his electorate had been beset by drought, bushfires in the Grampians, and hailstorms in Casterton, and he had been helping his community respond.

“Making sure you’re there for your community is something that I’ve always prided myself on and that’s what I’ve tried to do over the last three years.”

On Saturday night, Tehan refused to rule out a tilt at the opposition leadership, after Peter Dutton lost his Queensland seat.

At Indi in north-east Victoria, independent Helen Haines retained the seat at her third election.

In Flinders on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Liberal incumbent Zoe McKenzie had gathered about 37 per cent of the primary vote, compared to teal candidate Ben Smith on 22 per cent and Labor’s Sarah Race on 23 per cent.

McKenzie retained the Mornington Peninsula electorate with a 6.2 per cent margin at the 2022 election. Smith, a Climate 200-backed independent, was one of McKenzie’s main challengers, along with Race, a former Mornington Peninsula Shire councillor.

In the south-east Victorian electorate of Monash, Liberal candidate Mary Aldred had suffered a swing of just over 6 per cent against her when counting closed on Saturday night. While Aldred had gained about 30 per cent of first preferences, the result was still too close to call.

Bradfield’s independent candidate Nicolette Boele voting with her daughter Saskia at her alma mater Killara High School.Credit: Steven Siewert

Labor’s Tully Fletcher gathered about 20 per cent of primary votes, compared to teal independent Deb Leonard who was on about 19 per cent. A crowded field contested Monash, including Russell Broadbent, who ran as an independent after losing the Liberal Party’s endorsement.

He previously held the seat for more than 20 consecutive years for the Liberals and was re-elected with a margin of 2.9 per cent at the 2022 election. Broadbent had won about 10 per cent of the primary vote at the latest count.

The NSW Liberals surrendered another blue ribbon seat on Sydney’s north shore, with teal candidate Nicolette Boele seizing Bradfield from Gisele Kapterian in the independent’s second shot at the electorate.

Boele, who narrowly missed out on unseating the then Liberal MP Paul Fletcher in 2022, beat Liberal candidate Kapterian, who had planned to contest North Sydney until it was abolished in a boundary redistribution.

Boele will join fellow teal MPs Sophie Scamps (Mackellar), Zali Steggall (Warringah) and Allegra Spender (Wentworth) on the crossbench. That will leave just one Liberal in the party’s former heartland, with Julian Leeser in Berowra now the sole MP for the area stretching from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to Ku-ring-gai Chase.

with Alexandra Smith

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