Sunday 3 March 2019

Australian politicians who won't be standing at the May 2019 federal elections


Seats up for grabs...............


And seats at risk..................

The Saturday Paper, 2-8 March 2019:

According to GetUp!-sponsored ReachTEL polling in Tony Abbott’s and Peter Dutton’s seats, Warringah and Dickson, the incumbent candidates are behind. In Abbott’s case, a long way behind independent Zali Steggall, 43–57. Dutton is closer but trailing Labor’s Ali France 48–52. Both men are believed to have accumulated war chests close to a million dollars each to repel their challengers.

Sources say Liberal polling in Health Minister Greg Hunt’s seat, Flinders, has him behind a yet-to-be-named Labor candidate, 47–53. They say he has been warned he will have to spend much of his time in the seat to shore it up rather than on the national campaign. He is facing Liberal renegade Julia Banks and her open ticket preference flow could well see the Labor candidate win.

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