Former NSW minister who ran as star candidate in ultra-marginal seat comes up just short against Labor’s Fiona Phillips
spokesman confirmed the request had come from Constance, the former state minister who quit to run as a star candidate in Gilmore. The Liberals were confident that Constance’s high profile would be enough to snare the seat from Phillips, the first-term MP who held the seat on a margin of just 2.6%.
“As counting has progressed over the last couple of weeks, my scrutineers have raised concerns in relation to certain aspects of the process, particularly the scrutiny of informal votes,” Constance said in a statement. The AEC said it gives “thorough consideration” to recount requests, and the delay in declaration was due to staff needing time to assess the request, but a spokesman stressed the delay was not any indication of what decision it would make.
AEC guidelines say a recount is conducted as a matter of course where the margin is less than 100 votes. Outside that, the AEC says a recount request must have “valid and specific grounds for supposing that it could change the result”, including the need “to identify specific ballot papers and associated significant counting process errors or irregularities that could change the result of an election within a division”.
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