Electoral shake-up leaves awkward questions for the teals – and headaches for the major parties

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Liberal party now has candidates preselected for seats that no longer exist while Labor dealt a blow in the seat of Bennelong

has existed since 1901, and had been held by the Liberal party and its predecessors for all but two terms prior to independent Kylea Tink’s Climate 200-fuelled victory in 2022.

This could go two ways at North Sydney – the remainder could be split in half between the neighbouring Liberal seat of Bradfield and Labor seat of Bennelong, as proposed by the Liberals. The new suburbs are not the solid Liberal areas they once were, but they are enough to just narrowly tip the seat over to the Liberal side by 0.1%.

It would make sense for Tink to run in Bradfield, but some of Boele’s supporters may have trouble with such a plan.

 

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