Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party will have a representative in the Victorian upper house as Invergordon farmer Rikki Tyrell claims one of the five Northern Victorian seats in the Victorian parliament’s Legislative Council.
Northern Victoria is one of eight electoral regions in Victoria’s upper house and will have three new members (five in total) after Liberal Democrat Tim Quilty and Tania Maxwell (Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party) were defeated at the November election.
A third new member was required with the retirement of Labor member Mark Gepp.
Labor will have only one representative in Northern Victoria as candidate James McWhinney failed in his bid to replace Mr Gepp in the role.
Jaclyn Symes will represent the government, returned to her role, while Liberal Wendy Lovell was also returned.
Nationals candidate Gaelle Broad was elected, as was Ms Tyrell and Animal Justice Party’s Georgie Purcell.
These results were based on 88.35 per cent of the vote being counted. Ms Purcell and Ms Tyrell were elected in the 24th and 25th counts under the complicated counting system.