Labor candidate Cressida O’Hanlon is leading in the South Australian byelection in Dunstan, with a 2.9% lead over her Liberal rival Anna Finizio. O’Hanlon is on track to achieve a historic victory if pre-poll votes continue to fall her way.
SA Labor candidate Cressida O’Hanlon is in the lead after the first night of counting in the South Australian byelection in Dunstan . Labor’s Cressida O’Hanlon is nervously waiting, hoping to be confirmed as the next member of South Australia’s House of Assembly. The 51-year-old business mediator is on track to win the seat of Dunstan with a 2.9%, two-party-preferred lead over her Liberal rival Anna Finizio .
No SA government in more than a century has managed to win a seat off the opposition at a byelection but O’Hanlon looks set to achieve a historic victory should pre-poll votes continue to fall her way. “Tonight we are in an incredible position and it’s thanks to all of you,” she told a room full of volunteers on Saturday night
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