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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Dunkley byelection: Labor’s Jodie Belyea triumphs but Liberals win modest swing

Labor’s Jodie Belyea and Australia’s deputy prime minister Richard Marles arrive to claim victory in the Dunkley byelection
Labor’s Jodie Belyea and deputy prime minister Richard Marles arrive to claim victory in the Dunkley byelection. Photograph: Morgan Hancock/AAP

Peter Dutton’s Liberal party has won a modest swing in the Dunkley byelection but fallen short in the Labor seat vacated by the death of the popular local MP Peta Murphy.

The Liberal candidate, Nathan Conroy, has currently received 47.5% of the two-party preferred vote, a swing of more than 3% to the opposition, well short of the 6.3% swing required to win the seat off the Albanese government.

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