Now, Matthew Guy, having wrested control back from a hapless Michael O’Brien, appears on the cusp of a second electoral loss. Should this prove the case, he will be remembered only for having led his little band of the disheartened up dry gullies. ...
As early counting on Saturday suggested that Daniel Andrews’ Labor Party was losing skin but there was not a large enough swing towards Liberal and National candidates to grant them the chance of forming government, conservative strategists had to face a devastating possibility.
The early hours of a poll count, of course, are both a trial of nerves to the combatants and an inexact guide for pundits. Should the conservative parties fall short, the Liberal hierarchy would be left to digest a near unbearable recent electoral history.Ted Baillieu, the only Liberal leader to actually win an election in Victoria this century, was allowed just two years and three months as Premier before he was torn down in March 2013 by malcontents.
It cannot be dismissed as mere bad luck for the Liberals that for 18 of the 22 years of the 21st century – and now, possibly another four years of it – Labor governments have ruled in Victoria.
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