Labor is expected to form a majority government after late electoral commission counting showed it well in front in the Melbourne seat of Macnamara
Winning the seat would give Labor at least 76 seats - a majority in a 151-seat chamber - in the lower house, with a good chance of also taking the seat of Gilmore in NSW.Labor’s candidate for Macnamara, Josh Burns, had been in a close race against the Greens’ candidate Steph Hodgins-May and the Liberal’s Colleen Harkin since the May 21 election.
Burns had won 31.8 per cent of the primary vote, a one per cent improvement on his 2019 result with Hodgins-May narrowly behind on 29.7 per cent - a lift of 5.5 per cent - and Harkin on 29.1 per cent, which was a near 10 per cent fall. The ABC has projected that Labor’s Josh Burns will win the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, which would give Labor a majority government.After preferences, Burns was in front 62.3 per cent to Harkin’s 37.7 per cent, a swing to Labor of 7.4 per cent.
Absentee, provisional and declaration polls counted on Monday strongly flowed to Phillips, who was behind Constance by almost 250 votes on Sunday evening.
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