Greens celebrate electoral gains

Greens Leader Bob Brown says the Greens' near-win in Mayo, Rob Oakeshott's landslide in Lyne, and the 4% state-wide swing to the Greens in Western Australia spell disintegration for the two-party system in Australia.

"Had the Greens' Lynton Vonow got the column inches or TV time given the Liberals' Jamie Briggs, Mayo would have gone to the Greens," Senator Brown said.

"As it is, the seat will be decided on absentee and postal votes and we Greens are keeping our fingers crossed.

[Read on, includes latest results.]

"Independent, Di Bell, is not out of the race either, and should not be discounted. The Mayo vote is clearly a sharp rebuke to Canberra over the plight of the Murray River."

Rob Oakeshott's crushing of the Nationals in Lyne means all three independents in Federal Parliament are in rural seats which should be Nationals heartland. The trend for the Nationals is towards extinction.

"The Greens vote in Western Australia will see three or four elected to the upper house and star Greens candidate Adele Carles is still in the running to win Fremantle, in the lower house, from Labor.

"This points to a near-future Greens win in Fremantle at a state or national election," Senator Brown said.

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Latest Results at Monday AM:
 

The WA Greens gained a 4% swing in State election polling an excellent 11.54% that will bode well for the Legislative council count that will take some days to complete. Predictions are currenty from between 3 and 5 LC seats. Keep up to date with results here. See also WA Greens website

 
In the federal seat of Mayo (SA) Lynton Vonow is narrowly behind in the count, while recording a massive positive swing of 10.89%, totalling 21.85%  and after the distribution of preferences currently polling 47.64% to the Liberals 52.36%, with some 10,000 votes to count. Results here
 

In the federal seat of Lyne (NSW) Susie Russell gained a positive swing of 0.09% while Independent Robert Oakshot gained the seat from the withering National Party with over 64% of the primary vote. Results here