Victorian Liberal leader Matthew Guy confirmed he’d conceded the election in a phone call to Andrews.
In his winning speech, Dan Andrews himself cited the words of former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
“Paul Keating once said to me, ‘Son, leadership isn’t about doing what’s popular. Leadership is about doing what’s right’.
“Essentially, he was telling me leadership is doing what matters.
“And that is exactly what the people of this great state have endorsed today, in resoundingly re-electing our strong, stable, majority Labor government.”
, so good job being time efficient with your democratic rights there team.
and called the election for Labor — though the party has seen some swings against it, including seats being picked up by both The Greens and the Coalition.
The ABC’s election king initially said that, “what we can’t see is a pathway for the Coalition to win enough seats to get into government in their own right”.
Green then projected Labor would govern in the majority. They have more than 45 seats, the number they need to form government.
Prime Minister took to Twitter with a sausage selfie to congratulate Dan Andrews on his government’s win.
It’s Andrews’ third term in office — phew!
The Greens, led by , have held the seats of Melbourne, Brunswick and Prahran. The Greens have also won the Labor-held seats of Richmond and Northcote.
With a number of seats still waiting to be called, it looks like we’re seeing we saw in the May Federal Election.
There’s also been a win for the , with Dr taking the seat of Mornington from Liberal .
There are still plenty of exciting updates to shake out. Don’t worry, we’ll update you as soon as we know what’s what.
Next up will be the NSW State Election which is scheduled for March 25, 2023. The election tomfoolery simply never stops.
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