As it happened: Labor wins landslide as Liberals suffer election wipeout

That's it for our live coverage of what turned out to be a remarkable victory for the Labor Party and a historic loss for the Liberals.

Keep up to date with the latest news on the handful of seats still to be called at our live results page and find all of our election coverage here.  

Premier Daniel Andrews celebrating with his mum.Credit: Joe Armao

It was quite a different atmosphere at Labor's celebrations at the Village Green Hotel in Mulgrave where Tony Wright reports the reelected premier was feted like a rock star as he promised to govern for all Victorians. Read more here.

Premier Daniel Andrews (top) poses for a photo with his family during the Labor Party celebrationsCredit: AAP

Deals organised by “preference whisperer” Glenn Druery have lifted the microparties to new heights, winning up to nine of the forty seats in the next Legislative Council – even though their collective vote went down.

A new party set up by frustrated taxi drivers appears likely to win two seats in the Upper House, despite winning only a tiny percentage of votes, according to projections using ABC analyst Antony Green’s election calculator.

The Transport Matters Party, run by hire car owner Rod Barton and running mostly Indian candidates, seems set to win the final seat in Eastern Metropolitan district from the Greens - despite winning only 0.6 per cent of the vote compared to the Greens’ 9.3 per cent.

Read more here. 

 

Our reporter Tom Cowie was at the Veneto Club in Bulleen to hear Matthew Guy's concession speech. The Opposition Leader, however did not step down and remains the Opposition Leader although the question now is: for how long?

Matthew Guy concedes defeat.Credit: Chris Hopkins

From Bevan Shields in our Canberra bureau:

The Liberal Party's disastrous performance in the Victorian election has put the Morrison government on course for a crushing defeat at next year's federal poll, as a brawl breaks out over whether Malcolm Turnbull's demise was to blame for the shock result.

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• Bass Labor gain
• Brunswick Still to call
• Burwood Labor gain
• Carrum Labor hold
• Cranbourne Labor hold
• Frankston Labor hold
• Monbulk Labor hold
• Morwell Labor gain
• Pascoe Vale Labor hold
• Prahran Still to call
• Richmond Labor hold
• Ripon Still to call
• South Barwon Labor gain
• Box Hill Labor gain
• Brighton Liberal hold
• Caulfield Still to call
• Hawthorn Labor gain
• Melbourne Greens hold
• Northcote Labor gain
• Ringwood Labor gain
• South-West Coast Still to call

Kroger: "Jeff didn’t exactly send me roses after the 2016 federal election, when we effectively kept Turnbull in government"
Kennett: "Time is up, quite clearly. This has been a terrible result for the party.”
Kroger: "No one called on you to resign after you lost the '85 election... The party membership just reelected me and I’ve got their confidence."

 

These are all from Age cartoonist Matt Golding.

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