The independent Nicolette Boele has been declared the provisional winner of the seat of Bradfield on Sydney’s north shore after an agonising count in which she took a last-minute 40-vote lead over the Liberal candidate, Gisele Kapterian.
The final postal votes were processed in the former blue-ribbon Liberal seat on Monday and the Australian Electoral Commission announced in the afternoon that the indicative two-party-preferred margin was 40.
