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Weeks after the 2025 Federal Election and the very careful vote-counting continues in the Liberal Party’s most marginal seats.
Recent shifts in numbers suggest that the Liberal Party could very well lose two more seats that they had, hilariously, already celebrated winning.
Both Goldstein in Melbourne and Bradfield in Sydney’s upper north shore had already been called for the Liberal Party by all of Australia’s major media outlets a week ago. However, the Independent candidates for each seat have refused to concede.
But as of last night, both seats are still very much in play.
That’s according to the very few news outlets that are willing to admit they were wrong to spend a week reporting on the Liberal Party’s impressive performance against Independents in their once safest heartlands.
It seems that the very exciting media narrative about the Teals losing their steam might have been a little premature.
What none of the media commentators had accounted for is the fact that the last stash of votes to be counted for both electorates were the postal ballots sent home by the young upper middle-class kids who are enjoying their gap years in London and Berlin.
This is not a demographic that the Liberal Party can count on. With climate change, gender equality, and anti-Trump politics listed as priorities for the blue-ribbon youth abroad – the margins are now RAZOR THIN.
In Goldstein, it appeared that the prominent Liberal dummy-spitter Tim Wilson had won back his seat from that uppity woman Zoe Daniel – who gleefully ousted him in 2022 as an Independent challenger.
In Bradfield, the new Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian had already celebrated fending off second-time Independent challenger Nicolette Boele.
Despite the fact that the AEC had not confirmed either seat for the Liberals, both of the party’s unconfirmed candidates made their way to Canberra yesterday to vote for in the party’s leadership ballot.
Even more embarrassingly, Tim Wilson had even briefly put his hand up to become the new leader of a party that he might not even be a part of.
The Liberals currently lead Goldstein by 660 votes. They are only 56 votes ahead in Bradfield.
With roughly 8% of the vote yet to be counted in both seats, this has the potential to be very fucking funny.
