prahran

With a Federal election just weeks away, there’s deep interest in two Victorian state by-elections being held today.

The first is in the inner-city seat of Prahran, vacant following the resignation of former Greens MLA Sam Hibbins. With no Labor candidate in the field, it is expected that the Greens will retain the seat.

There is greater interest in the Werribee by-election caused by the departure of former state Treasurer Tim Pallas. It’s in Melbourne’s outer south-west suburbs, an area where government services and capital works expenditure has been lagging rapid population growth. That recent elections have seen marginal seats in outer south-east Melbourne attract greater promises than Labor’s safe western Melbourne seats has not gone without notice.

I won’t be doing any commentary here. This post is simply a pointer to my by-election coverage page. This post is to re-direct with the huge spike in visitors this site receives via Google on any night when there is an election.

I will be running a live results update service and providing commentary on the ABC’s elections site.

You can find Prahran results here.

And the Werribee results here.

And there is a commentary page where I will add comments on both results.

You can navigate between the results pages and access the pages of background material on the contests that has been available on the site for several weeks.Read More »Live Coverage of the Prahran and Werribee By-elections