July 6, 2016
UPDATE: Member for Flynn Ken O’Dowd has gained on his ALP rival Zac Beers as counting has proceeded in the seat.
AEC officials began counting postal votes on Wednesday.
Mr O’Dowd secured 64.17 per cent of the postal votes against Mr Beers (35.83 per cent) on a two party preferred basis.
This has narrowed the margin between the two men to just 1065 votes.
And with 9030 postal, declaration pre-poll and provisional votes still remaining to be counted, Mr O’Dowd could potentially get over the line if the postal voting trend holds steady.
On Wednesday afternoon ABC election analyst Antony Green moved Flynn into the “Seats In Doubt” category after earlier ceding the seat to the ALP.
It joins Cowan, Capricornia, Forde, Herbert, Hindmarsh and Gilmore as seats now regarded as “too close to call”.
July 5, 2016
The latest figures from the Australian Electoral Commission show that LNP candidate Ken O’Dowd is slowly reeling in the ALP’s Zac Beers.
At 9:00pm on Tuesday, Mr Beers was leading Mr O’Dowd by just 487 votes on first preferences (34,532 to 34,045).
However, on a two-candidate preferred basis, the gap was larger: ALP 34,967 to LNP 33,143.
All polling booths have now been counted but AEC figures showed there were still 11,000 voting envelopes awaiting processing.
- External link: Flynn results (AEC website)
If sitting LNP member Ken O’Dowd is not re-elected in Flynn, he can’t blame the citizens of the South Burnett for his unemployment woes.
A breakdown of the latest booth counts shows Mr O’Dowd was supported in rural areas of his electorate, but particularly in the South Burnett:
- Durong: LNP 54, ALP 7, One Nation 10
- Mondure: LNP 105, ALP 10, One Nation 40
- Proston: LNP 165, ALP 87, One Nation 58
- Wondai: LNP 510, ALP 346, One Nation 200
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