With 20 per cent of votes still to be counted, sitting member Mike Kelly has edged ahead in preferences, in a result poised on a knife’s edge.
Dr Kelly leads by around 1,500 votes and a margin of just over two per cent, but that margin is closer to eight per cent with preferences distributed.
The progress figures at 10.30pm were:
Mike Kelly (Labor) – 31,120
David Gazard (Liberal) – 29,533
Catherine Moore (Greens) – 6,559
Ray Buckley (Independent) – 847
Olga Quilty (LDP) – 841
Tom Gradwell (Family First) – 614
Ursula Bennett (CDP) – 484
Frank Fragiacomo (Independent) - 441
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