Scott Buchholz with his supporters after the call came through for the LNP win in Wright. Photo: CASSANDRA MILLER
THE Liberal National Party will keep the seat of Wright, with MP Scott Buchholz retaining his position as the electorate’s member of parliament.
Tallies in from the Australian Election Committee show Mr Buchholz taking 60.66 percent of the pie int he two party preferred count, and Labor‘s Pam McCreadie claiming 39.34 percent.
First preference counts for Wright has 72 of 74 polling votes returned at time of writing.
The United Australia Party’s, Cassandra Duffill – 6,261 taking 8.7 percent.
One Nation’s Keith Hicks, – 10,325 taking 14.41 percent.
Australian Federation Party’s, Shonna-Lee Banasiak – 1,099 taking 1.53 percent.
Queensland Greens’, Nicole Thompson – 7,994 taking 11.16 percent.
The seat of Wright had 123,884 eligible electors with a turn out on voting day of 60.15 percent. Informal voters hovered around the 3.86 percent mark.
Nationally, ALP has won 71 seats to the LNP’s 52. Independents, sit at 10 percent, Greens at two with ‘others’ at two.
Party vote totals showed 3,554,410 ballots cast in favour of the Labor Party, 32.80 percent of Australian votes with negative 0.54 percentage swing.
The Liberal Party had 2,561,320 ballots cast in its favour, capturing 23.64 percent of the pie with a negative 4.53 percentage swing.
Clive Palmer’s massive campaign spend failed to land the multi-millionaire candidate’s party results. United Australia’s primary vote failed to reach even five percent across the country. Regionally and in metropolitan area, UAP vote increased slightly with its strongest voter support being Queensland with close to six percent.
Overnight it was confirmed Labor’s Anthony Albanese had defeated Liberal’s Scott Morrison to become Australia’s 31st prime minister.
Liberal’s Peter Dutton is widely touted to be positioned as the party’s opposition leader.
