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Photos from around Farrer
Live count
Seat count
Updates from around Farrer
10.22pm: Thanks for sticking with us through the night we’re all wrapped up with the Farrer coverage now. Stay with The Border Mail tonight and tomorrow for analysis from our reporters of how the night unfolded.
10.14pm: Sussan Ley is still holding out hope her former Liberal parliamentary colleague in Indi, Sophie Mirabella, can win. "I think Sophie can get there," Ms Ley said. "If the National Party voters follow the how-to-vote card and preference Sophie we will have a Liberal member for Indi."
9.52pm: One standout quote from Sussan Ley’s victory speech was a tribute to her volunteers and team.
She said, borrowing from The Eagles, “We are all family and as I always say about people in Team Ley, you can check out any time, but you may never leave.”
9.49pm: Well things have just about wrapped up for Farrer, in the NSW senate count the LNP has 4.7506 of the quota so far followed by Labor with 3.93, the Greens with 0.89 and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation 0.65.
9.26pm: Sussan Ley claims victory in Farrer. she said it was humbling to still be around in her sixth election.
“When I’d been a member of Parliament for 10 years a few people said lets have a 10 year anniversary, I said people might say oh its time for her to go,” she said.
Ms Ley listed off all the big and small towns in her electorate, which has new boundaries, and said it was an extraordinary feeling to see numbers coming in from those new towns.
“We are all first and foremost local members,” she said.
Ms Ley said she was conscious but confident the LNP would form a majority government.
“I’m quietly confident, we’ve taken a bit of a whack which happens with every second term government since federation, the tide goes in with government and the tide goes out with the second election.”
9.23pm: Big booths of Thurgoona, Albury Central and Griffith pre-polls yet to come in. Sussan Ley has a positive 14 per cent swing while Labor has taken a nearly two per cent downswing. The Greens’ Amanda Cohn has gotten 4473 in first preferences and a four per cent swing while Ron Pike for the ALA has attracted 3890 first preferences. A clear election result for the nation may not come tonight.
8.36pm: Greens candidate Amanda Cohn has pulled ahead of Australian Liberty Alliance's Ron Pike for third place behind Sussan Ley and Christian Kunde. Her shift coincides with the large Albury Public School and Lavington booths being counted.
7.56pm: More than half the 89 polling places in Farrer have now lodged their results with Sussan Ley having 58 per cent of the vote. However, the largest booths in Albury have yet to be recorded.
7.22pm: First Albury booth counted with figures from Major League sporting centre among 27 centres now having their votes officially recorded. Sussan Ley has 60 per cent of the tally, with former Labor candidate Christian Kunde with a 16 per cent share.
6.50pm: Sussan Ley has dominated the early counting, amassing 70 per cent of the votes tallied at six small booths. Poling places counted so far are Bunnaloo, Carrathool, Coleambally, Emery, Rankin Springs and Walbundrie.
6.08pm: Voting has officially closed across the 96 booths which have been set up in Farrer. For the first time, the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area is part of the seat which runs from Wentworth to Albury.
5.55pm: Albury has endured its coldest federal election day since the last July poll in 1987 when the mercury peaked at just 10 degrees. The maximum of 12.3 degrees today ensured voters were rugged up but it did not stop folks laying down the cash for a sausage. Albury Public School sold more than 600 snags.
4.03pm: Incumbent Sussan Ley has made her way from Griffith, to Deniliquin to Albury where she has been handing out how-to-vote cards at Albury Public School.
Greens candidate Amanda Cohn started her day in Albury and has been spotted at several schools trying to get votes.
2.05pm: Breaking news … no more egg and bacon rolls at North Albury Primary School.
1pm: There’s a first time for everything.
For Amy Brown it was the first time handing out how to vote cards in Griffith; for Carolyn Dossetor, it was the first ever time handing out how to vote cards.
Why do they brave the early morning cold?
“Just giving back,” Ms Dossetor said.
“It’s a new boundary for Farrer and I think Sussan Ley is pretty good.”
Supporting the Christian Democratic Party, Ms Brown said it was nice to help out.
“I stand with their values the most out of any of them.
“There’s not many times people stick their hand up and volunteer.
“I’m kinda young and I watch people in the community give their time and I struggle to give my time, so to give a couple hours doing something like this, it’s a good contribution.”
The Area News, Griffith
12:35pm: Forgot Liberal or Labor, Griffith has much more pressing issues at hand; onions or no onions?
The Area News journalist Riley Krause was on the lookout around town for the best barbecue and he thinks he found a winner down at the PCYC.
Senior Constables Peta Naisby and Alex Davies were dishing it all out. From bacon and eggs, to steaks, to your plain old sanga and sauce.
But what made theirs the best.
“It’s made with love,” Senior Constable Naisby said.
“You can sausage, bacon, eggs, onion, a bit of everything.”
The Area News, Griffith
10.50am: Griffith’s Peter Knox, who was handing out how to vote cards for the Labor Party, said he hoped one day the messiah would come for Labor. “If not this election, it will be the next one I’m sure,” he said.
The Area News, Griffith
10.40am: Farrer Mature Australia Party candidate Trevor O’Brien said water would be a priority if he was elected.
“We’re going to be looking at water in a serious manner and a transaction tax in the near future if we can,” Mr O’Brien said.
The Area News, Griffith
10.35am: Mr Rossetto said the Christian Democratic Party was the only true conservative party left in politics.
“We stand for traditional marriage, we stand for good financial management of our economy, we don’t like waste, we don’t want cuts to aged care, we don’t want cuts to health care,” Mr Rossetto said.
“We are the party that respects life from conception through to natural death so we’re not in favour of euthanasia."
The Area News, Griffith
10.30am: Christian Democratic Party candidate Paul Rossetto said he decided to run as a candidate because he was concerned Sussan Ley supported same-sex marriage.
The Area News, Griffith
10.25am: Liberal candidate said although it was cold in Griffith, there was a real buzz in the air. “I’m just so excited that parts of the Riverina – Griffith, Leeton, Narrandera, Hillston are coming into the electorate of Farrer,” Ms Ley said.
The Area News, Griffith
10.20am: Leeton’s Timothy Smith, 20, is at a polling booth today in support of the Christian Democratic Party. He said he believed marriage should be between a man and a woman. He also urged people, particularly young people, to ensure their vote counts.
The Area News, Griffith
8am: Liberal candidate and sitting member for Farrer Sussan Ley cast her vote at the Griffith PCYC polling booth shortly after 8am today.
Ms Ley said she would head on to Deniliquin before returning home to Albury today.
The Area News, Griffith