Latham elected to NSW Parliament but 'long way to go' for final upper house result l LisaVisentin
Former federal Labor leader Mark Latham will make a return to politics as a One Nation MP in the NSW upper house, with a small possibility the party could win a second seat.
“He’s got enough votes already. If he gets no more votes from here he still gets in. Whether he gets number two over we’ll have to wait and see,” Dr Bonham said.Credit:By Sunday afternoon One Nation had received 5.85 per cent of the vote, well above the 4.5 per cent quota needed to guarantee a seat in the upper house.
He said Keep Sydney Open appeared to be "in the mix" for a seat, based on the 1.4 per cent vote the party had received in the lower house.Election analyst Ben Raue said about 13-14 per cent of the vote was sitting with the "others" group, and up to three seats could be claimed by the smaller parties.
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