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John Pesutto at 9.30pm on election night.

The Liberal Party won back Hawthorn, but can they keep it?

Hawthorn is now almost certainly a Liberal seat after four years of being Labor but change is afoot so can the party hold onto it?

  • Clay Lucas

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John Pesutto in Hawthorn on Friday morning.

Lawyer, MP and ‘son of a sparky’ – Pesutto says he can appeal to all

Despite being the MP for leafy, blue-chip Hawthorn, Liberal leadership aspirant John Pesutto says he’s the man who can ‘reach out to all corners of the state’.

  • Clay Lucas
Liberal Jess Wilson, Labor’s Lucy Skelton, teal candidate Sophie Torney and Greens contender Jackie Carter are locked in a highly competitive but civilised race for the seat of Kew.

Liberals could cling to key seats as teals fall behind on postal votes

A number of Melbourne electorates remain too close to call, but postal vote counting on Sunday was trending away from the independents and towards the Liberal Party.

  • Annika Smethurst
John Pesutto votes on Saturday.

Liberal John Pesutto pulls ahead of teal in Hawthorn as postal votes go his way

The Victorian Liberal Party leadership contender has edged ahead of teal candidate Melissa Lowe in the ultra-marginal seat of Hawthorn.

  • Clay Lucas
Christina Branagan and Sandra Alexander say the loss of the Rotherwood Flats will reduce the number of affordable homes in the seat of Hawthorn.

Bulldozing the childhood home: when is heritage a four-letter word?

Buildings hold our stories and memories. They support our internal architecture. And for decades, that apartment block held mine. It still does.

  • Bianca Hall
John Kennedy greets voters at the Camberwell pre-poll centre.

‘Like polling booth Survivor Island’: Hawthorn candidates exhausted as pre-poll comes to an end

As the campaign ends, the four main candidates in the marginal seat of Hawthorn have given it their all at pre-polling - and are weary as election day looms.

  • Clay Lucas
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Party volunteers hand out how-to-vote cards at the early voting centre in Camberwell.

Labor and teals target Liberals in marginal seats in campaign’s final days

Teal independents running in three marginal seats have released polling commissioned by Climate 200 pointing to major concern among voters in the electorates about the logging of native forests.

  • Clay Lucas
An election flyer being letterboxed by the Liberal Party in the seats of Hawthorn and Kew.

Flyers from Libs and teals go on the attack as election day looms

Competition for the state seats of Hawthorn and Kew is heating up, with the Liberal Party putting flyers in letterboxes in the electorates saying a vote for a teal independent candidate is a vote to re-elect the Andrews government.

  • Clay Lucas
Heritage advocates Christina Branagan and Sandra Alexander at the Rotherwood Flats on Riversdale Road, Camberwell.

‘Open slather’ for developers is bad news for heritage, Hawthorn campaigners say

Heritage has been one of the most contested spaces in Melbourne’s inner east, but at this election only one candidate in Hawthorn has made its protection a core issue.

  • Clay Lucas
Social media posts focused on hyper-local issues are increasingly prevalent during the state election campaign.

Feed frenzy: How your local candidate is all up in your socials

State political advertising in key seats is now less about the leader and more about the local candidate.

  • Bianca Hall, Clay Lucas and Rachael Dexter

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