Victorian byelection
Literally anyone else: Fear for the major parties in Werribee’s result
No candidate was able to secure 30 per cent of primary votes in the byelection. It’s a warning sign for Labor and the Liberals of what experts tip will happen more and more.
- Rachel Eddie
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Fresh from fighting fires, John Lister takes hot seat in Werribee
School teacher and CFA volunteer John Lister says the message from Werribee voters has been heard “loud and clear”.
- Chip Le Grand
Labor on edge of victory in Werribee
Latest counting has extended school teacher John Lister’s lead in the formerly safe Labor seat despite a huge swing against the Allan government.
- Chip Le Grand
Horror budget ahead as voters desert Labor
There is limited room in the state budget to respond to voter frustrations in the west after Labor’s primary vote collapsed 16.7 per cent in the Werribee byelection.
- Rachel Eddie
Werribee voters face long wait for byelection result in cliffhanger count
The count in a seat the Liberal Party has not held for 46 years has upended the established order of Victorian politics and delivered a potent message to the Allan government.
- Chip Le Grand and Rachel Eddie
- Analysis
- Greens
Learning nothing from their humiliation in Prahran, Greens will march on
If the Greens were a party with serious aspirations to govern, they would be mortified by the message from the Prahran byelection.
- Chip Le Grand
Push for review into shambolic Werribee byelection count
The Victorian Electoral Commission ordered one of its own officials to leave a polling place after they were overheard telling people to vote Liberal.
- Chip Le Grand
Liberals claim victory in Prahran as Greens concede defeat
The Greens blamed preference deals and low voter turnout for their failure to hold the inner-Melbourne seat.
- Rachel Eddie
- Analysis
- Political leadership
Werribee speaks, Labor shudders: The swing that can’t be ignored
Significant swings away from state Labor in Werribee will put Anthony Albanese and his federal colleagues on notice that they can’t take Victoria for granted.
- James Massola
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- Melbourne
Voters abandon Labor in Werribee and Greens in Prahran, but byelections too close to call
Western suburbs voters have hammered the Allan government in Werribee – though they didn’t fully embrace the Liberal Party – while the Greens conceded Prahran was “on a knife’s edge”.
- Chip Le Grand, Rachel Eddie, Adam Carey and Nicole Precel
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