Ken O’Dowd
July 7, 2016
LNP candidate for Flynn Ken O’Dowd has slipped ahead of the ALP’s Zac Beers in first preference votes
However, Mr O’Dowd is still lagging behind Mr Beers on a two-candidate preferred basis although the gap has narrowed markedly.
At 3:30pm on Thursday, Mr O’Dowd had 26,277 primary votes compared with Mr Beers’ 25,607.
But the split after preferences were distributed was Mr Beers 36,688 to Mr O’Dowd’s 36,033, a margin of 655 votes.
Mr O’Dowd’s fightback is from the counting of postal votes, where he is snaring 62.78 per cent of the vote on a two-candidate basis.
In comparison, Mr O’Dowd secured only 48.4 per cent of ordinary votes.
There are still 7311 votes to be counted.
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