Suzie Holt finished fourth on primary vote in the LNP-held seat, but is at 42.89% of 2PP after preferences
Photograph: aeropix/AlamyPhotograph: aeropix/AlamyQueensland’s only “voices of” candidate has leapfrogged One Nation and Labor to poll second in the seat of Groom after preferences – despite winning just 8.26% of the primary vote – in a result election analyst Antony Green describes as “startling”.
While she won’t win the seat in 2022, Holt said the “overwhelming” result, amounting to a 13.3% swing, has given her a “beautiful platform” to work with “moving forward”.“We were facing one of the hardest battles in the nation … and this positive response has shown that people want us to keep going.”Groom , which is centred on Toowoomba, has been held safely by conservative parties since federation in 1901.
Holt, along with another independent, nurse and small businesswoman Kirstie Smolenski, and Labor’s Gen Allpass, each ran lengthy campaigns with the conviction they could pull off an unlikely triumph in this heartland of Christian conservatism.
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