This guide will get you up to speed on which electorates changed hands around Australia at this year’s election and why.
for a multitude of reasons, spanning from cost of living concerns to disapproval of his anti-China sentiments.
Labor may have won the election, but the party’s primary vote also took a hit as a result of the emergence of the independents. Add to that, a chaotic preselection process in many seats, including a divisive but ultimately unsuccessful candidate in Warringah, it was all too much to overcome. In Mackellar, on Sydney’s northern beaches, the Liberals lost to independent Sophie Scamps, with Liberal MP Jason Falinski copping a 12 per cent swing against him. The Northern Beaches seat had been held by the Liberal Party since 1972.
Liberal’s Fiona Martin lost a key seat in Sydney’s inner west, with votes swinging 10 per cent away from her.opponent, Labor’s Sally Sitou,Ms Martin denied she confused Ms Sitou for Ms Le, who was pushed out of running in Fowler by Labor, but the damage had already been done in an electorate where almost one in five residents is of Chinese heritage.
After only one term, however, Wentworth has returned to another independent, Allegra Spender, with the dislike of Scott Morrison, the Liberal Party’s social values shifting to the right and its failure to roll out a comprehensive climate policy being most prominent in Wentworth.The main storyline for this election has been how the Liberal party lost its inner-city seats across the country, and that was definitely the case in the state of Victoria.
In the seat of Chisholm, the Liberals saw a 7.4 per cent swing against the Liberals. The swing saw Hong Kong-born Gladys Liu lose her seat to Labor’s Carina Garland.Despite being of Chinese heritage, Ms Liu was unable to stave off the disapproval of the Liberal Party’s hawkish comments about Australia-China relations from Chisholm residents, which has the largest number of Mandarin speakers in any electorate.
Arguably the biggest upset at this year’s election, former treasurer Josh Frydenberg lost the seat to independent Monique Ryan. The loss makes Mr Frydenberg thein the Great Depression. But as the third-youngest electorate in the entire country, Griffith leans left and the left vote has become more evenly split between Labor and the Greens than in the past.
Ms Miller-Frost won off the back of pushing for climate change action and a slew of health and road infrastructure commitments by Labor.With losses in Fowler and Griffith, Labor needed big wins in Western Australia if it hoped to form majority government. To the Coalition’s dismay, Perth voters painted polling booths red, delivering Hasluck, Pearce, Swan and Tangney to Labor.
The once safe Liberal seat of Curtin, which covers the wealthy suburbs of Dalkeith and Peppermint Grove, previously held on a margin of 13.9 per cent by Celia Hammond has been won by teal independent Kate Chaney. It had been held by the Liberal Party since 1972. Labor won the inner-south Perth electorate of Swan, with votes swinging 7.1 per cent to Zaneta Mascarenhas. She replaces retiring Liberal MP Steve Irons, who had held the seat since 2007 by beating Liberal candidate Kristy McSweeney.
Like the other wins across Perth electorates, Labor saw votes come its way as a result of Mr McGowan’s campaigning and handling of the pandemic.The Labor sweep of Perth electorates continued into Pearce, which covers the city’s northern suburbs, including Wanneroo.
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