There will be a by-election for the Victorian state seat of Prahran coming up soon, likely at the start of 2025.
Sam Hibbins won the seat for the Greens in 2014, and again in 2018 and 2022. He quit the party earlier this month after revelations of an affair with a staff member.
Ben is joined by Leo Puglisi from 6 News and Chris Eddy from Local Government News Roundup to wrap up the Victorian council elections.
6:00 – Polls have just closed in the South Australian state seat of Black for the by-election triggered by the resignation of former Liberal leader David Speirs. I will be tracking the results here tonight, but while we wait for results you can check out my by-election guide.
For this post, I am looking at how the parties have done in the Victorian council elections, and I run through a quick summary of how each council went.
As of the time of writing, all but three of the wards I am tracking have been finalised. The Wilton and Yamala wards in Frankston and the Westerfolds ward in Manningham have reported primary votes, but no preference distribution. For this analysis I am assuming the primary vote leaders win here.
We are now coming towards the end of the Victorian council elections. For the councils I have been covering, final primary votes have been recorded for all wards, and in the vast majority the winners have been determined and preferences distributed.
The process of vote-counting for the Victorian council elections started last Saturday, and while a lot of votes have been counted, absolutely none of them have been officially published for the public on the VEC’s website.
The Electoral Matters Committee of the Victorian parliament has launched an inquiry into the structure of the Legislative Council.
Ben is joined by Alexis Pink from ZZZ to discuss the LNP coming to power in Queensland. We discuss the divide between north and south, the performances of the minor parties and how this new LNP government might differ from the last LNP government.
Last night’s election result was nothing like the wipe-out expected when the LNP was on 55-56% of the two-party-preferred vote back in September, but it’s still reasonably clear. Overall the scale of the defeat looks similar to Labor’s victory in 52 seats in 2020. Under Queensland’s unicameral system, that’s enough to govern comfortably.
6:56 – The Labor swing in Bundaberg has calmed down a bit but Labor is still winning there. I haven’t seen any other seats bucking the trend – generally there are respectable swings to the LNP all over the place.
6:54 – A bit more data in Thuringowa also has KAP in a respectable third there.