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Emphatic win for Foley and the Labor Party

Emphatic win for Foley and the Labor Party

Labor’s Martin Foley has been returned to the seat of Albert Park as our local member for a fourth consecutive term following his party’s historic victory at the November State Election.

A crushing 11 per cent swing towards Labor in Albert Park saw Mr Foley defeat Liberal candidate and City of Port Phillip Cr Andrew Bond with 63 per cent of the two-candidate preferred vote.

Receiving 16,174 primary votes and a total 23,482 votes following preference flows, Mr Foley comprehensively outpolled his opponent at every voting booth in the electorate. In Southbank, Mr Foley recorded 554 more votes than Cr Bond as preferred candidate.

The Greens vote stagnated against its result in the 2014 election, with candidate and City of Port Phillip Cr Ogy Simic recording 6110 primary votes.

The results in Albert Park were reflective of a state-wide swing against the Liberal Party, with Labor claiming a landslide 56 of 88 seats in the Victorian lower house.

Mr Foley has retained his cabinet folios as the Minister for Equality, Mental Health and the Creative Industries, while two of his folios, Housing and Disability and Ageing, have been taken over by Richard Wynne and Luke Donnellan respectively.

“I want to thank the people of Albert Park for the confidence they have shown in me and the Andrews Labor Government,” Mr Foley said.

“They made it overwhelmingly clear that fear-mongering and scare campaigns have no place in our community. This is a place where values such as inclusivity, fairness and hard work are what matters.”

“Our community voted to have a strong, stable, majority government and we have the positive and progressive plans to build a better Victoria.”

“Here in Albert Park that means upgrades at Port Melbourne and St Kilda Primary Schools, a new secondary school and community hospital for Fishermans Bend, a new community and education performing arts centre at Gasworks Arts Park, redeveloping St Kilda Pier, new separated bike lanes down St Kilda Rd, two new pocket parks and so much more.”

As reported widely in other media, Liberal candidate Cr Andrew Bond made headlines with a scathing post-election review of his party’s campaign whereby he declared that Matthew Guy was “unelectable”.

Mr Bond told Southbank Local News that while he was disappointed by the result, he had enjoyed participating in the democratic process in his local community.

“I would like to congratulate Martin Foley on his re-election as the member for Albert Park,” he said. “While the outcome was disappointing for myself personally, and for the Liberal Party generally across the State, I enjoyed participating in the democratic process, the many community forums, and meeting so many new residents particularly in Southbank and Docklands.”

Greens candidate Cr Ogy Simic said the outcome in Albert Park and the state generally was a positive one for his party and progressive politics.

“Despite being massively outspent by the major parties, we held our vote from 2014 in the face of huge voter backlash against the Victorian Liberal Party,” he said.

“I want to thank everyone who supported me and trusted me with their vote, and I look forward to continuing the important work of advocating for you as your local Port Phillip councillor.”

“I’d like to congratulate Martin Foley for his successful re-election and I look forward to working with him to progress some of the issues facing Southbank.”

“Despite massive swings to Labor across the state, the Greens vote held up in the inner-city. As well as winning three lower house seats, we have achieved a positive swing in Albert Park where the Liberals have been decimated.”

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