Incumbent Adam Crouch has won the former Liberal stronghold of Terrigal after weathering a big swing to Labor at the NSW election, says ABC analyst Antony Green.
abc.net.au/news/terrigal-electorate-called-a-week-after-2023-state-election/102158076Incumbent Adam Crouch has won the former Liberal stronghold of Terrigal after weathering a big swing to Labor at the NSW election, says the ABC's chief election analyst Antony Green.
Early in the night, Green predicted the seat would be retained by the Liberals but by night's end the incumbent was behind and Green was predicting the seat would be an ALP gain. As the week progressed and postal and pre-poll votes were to be counted, the candidates were cautious, neither prepared to call the seat."I'm proud of what we've achieved," he said."It was very much a grassroots campaign, not a lot of funding and we have cause to be proud of what we have achieved."
In the two Wamberal booths, Sam Boughton secured marginally more votes than Adam Crouch, a huge turnaround from the 2019 poll, which saw the Liberal incumbent record more than twice as many votes as Labor.All the sitting Labor MPs across seats on the Central Coast retained their seats and increased their margins.
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