With 81% of the vote counted Labor’s Mike Kelly had gained 32,532 first preference votes to Liberal David Gazard’s 31,042, however with Green candidate Catherine Moore taking 6,779 first preference votes (9.2%) which will flow to Dr Kelly, he claimed victory quite early in the night.
Dr Kelly said on Monday “I would like to thank the people of Eden-Monaro for placing their confidence in me following my re-election on Saturday night.
I have felt very privileged to be able to work together with our community over the past three years and I look forward to representing Eden-Monaro over the next three years.
I would like to congratulate my opponents on a good, clean campaign that was focused on the issues at stake instead of personal attacks.
I am committed to delivering on the projects that I have committed to during the campaign and intend to build on my plan of making Eden-Monaro a flagship for Renewable Energy which will create new jobs for the future of our kids in rewarding careers.
Regardless of the result at a National level I will continue to work with the people of Eden-Monaro to build on our shared vision and represent their views to the Australian Parliament.”
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