Mav vows another run despite disappointing Senate result
HIGH-visibility independent Steve Mav says he is disappointed his campaign for the Senate did not win him more votes, but has vowed he is not going away.
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HIGH-visibility independent Steve Mav says he is disappointed his campaign for the Senate did not win him more votes but has vowed he is not going away.
Mr Mav, a former Glenorchy councillor, ran a spirited ten-month campaign but was hampered by a poor ballot position among the ungrouped independent candidates below the line at the far right end of the ballot paper.
The latest Australian Electoral Commission results have Mr Mav receiving 2,398 primary votes — around one per cent of the total — well short of a quota.
Mr Mav was the highest-polling ungrouped Senate candidate in Australia, receiving about the same number of votes as high profile independent candidate Craig Garland and close to that achieved by the National Party in the Senate race in Tasmania.
Mr Mav said he has learned a lot from his campaign and will apply those lessons in future.
“This is a setback,” he said. “My internal polling was not consistent with the result.
“I need to carefully study it and understand why my internal polling, which showed me in a winning position, was not reflected on election day.
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“We have to wait for all the votes to come in, they haven’t come in yet.”
Mr Mav said he would take on the lessons of this election before deciding what his next move was. But he said he had no intention of giving up.
“In terms of the issues I ran, I make no apologies for being in favour of capital punishment. I make no apologies for wanting a federal takeover of the health system, I make no apologies for the fact that I have made my position very clear in terms of lower taxes.
“Watch this space because I’m going to be when I make my comeback I will be bigger bolder and I won’t disappear.
“The Mav haters out there who are just dreaming of me going away will be disappointed.”
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