Labor is on track to wrest two seats from the Liberal Party in Melbourne's east, including what would be an historic victory in the former Liberal stronghold of Higgins.
At the last federal election, both major parties nominated candidates with Chinese backgrounds.
It was a first in Australian political history and reflected the fact that about one in five people in the Chisholm electorate have Chinese ancestry.Chisholm was the state's most marginal seat in the 2019 vote, when it was won by the Liberal Party's Gladys Liu on a margin of 0.5 per cent. There were 12 candidates on the ballot this year, so preference flows from the minor candidates could play a crucial role as more votes are counted., Labor's Michelle Ananda-Rajah, an infectious diseases doctor who rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, is on track to defeat first-term Liberal MP Katie Allen.Dr Allen, a paediatrician, held the electorate on a margin of 2.6 per cent after the 2019 poll.
The seat in Melbourne's inner south-east has been held by the Liberal Party since its creation in 1949 and has been held by two former primer ministers — John Gorton and Harold Holt. Traditionally a safe Liberal seat, Higgins — like many inner-city electorates in Melbourne — has experienced a rise in support for the Greens in recent years.Higgins was today the site of controversy because of green-coloured signs urging people to "put Labor last" erected across the electorate.
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