The Greens will retain a strong influence in the Senate after increasing their primary vote and looking set to hold all six seats they had up for re-election.
The Greens' Higgins candidate, Jason Ball, was not looking strong enough to steal the seat from Liberal candidate Katie Allen, with only about 23 per cent of first preference votes after 15 per cent of the vote had been counted. Late on Saturday night, he said: "The Greens are very much still in this race and we are unlikely to know the result for a few days.""We had this in Prahran, where it looked like we were behind in the state election and we managed to get over Labor and win that seat. That contest is still a very live one ... The big unknown is the massive pre-poll numbers."
"I'm hopeful that we will hold our team. We were written off before this election campaign but we have run strong campaigns across the country, put climate change front and centre and hopefully that's reflected when we see the Senate numbers over the next couple of weeks."
Dana_Adele But we mustn’t forget. We’ll have to try a bit harder to help them.
Dana_Adele Wait until the younger generation come through - the tide will turn eventually 💚
Dana_Adele The Greens got 10.1% of the primary vote, compared with 11.76% under Bob Brown's leadership in the 2010 election. In 9 years they have gone backward in terms of their primary vote even when presented with the opportunity of the 'climate change election'.
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