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In by far the most humorous development in the 2025 Federal Election, it appears the the once safest seat in Australia has been clawed from the hands of the Liberal Party by an Independent candidate.
After weeks of careful vote counting, ABC’s election analyst Antony Green has today confirmed that the seat of Bradfield in Sydney’s upper North Shore has been provisionally won by Nicolette Boele.
By 40 votes.
The ballots will now undergo an automatic recount – as is mandatory for all margins less than 100 votes.
This comes after the Liberal prematurely celebrated retaining the seat three weeks ago, even as going as far as inviting their supposed winning candidate to Canberra last Monday to vote in the party’s new leadership ballot.
Every single media outlet in Australia had called this seat for the Liberal Party, and it was only last week that the interactive election maps switched Bradfield back from a ‘Liberal Win’ to ‘Uncertain’.
However, what neither the media, analysts or the local Liberal branch had accounted for was the overseas postal ballots that were being sent back the North Shore youth, who voted at embassies in London and Berlin while enjoying their gap years.
This unpredictable last minute shift in votes is sure to strike rage in the hearts of the rusted on Liberal voters from Chatswood to St Ives, who’s own kids may have just made the difference in the 40 vote margin.
Even better, is the fact that these votes were preferences, meaning that these detached Gen-Z lefties probably voted for the Greens first and Liberals last.
All while living it up in a foreign country at the expense of their parents.
Ms Boele narrowly missed out on taking the seat from Liberal Paul Fletcher in 2022, but spend the last three years campaigning with a long run up as the electorate’s ‘shadow MP’.
Bradfield was the only Liberal electorate to vote YES in the Indigenous Voice referendum, and Peter Dutton did not visit the electorate once in for the entire duration of the 2025 election campaign.
The only funnier thing that could come from these final confirmations would be for the hysterical Melbourne dummy spitter Tim Wilson to lose his once Liberal seat of Goldstein to the Independent MP Zoe Daniel for a second time.
He remains 330 votes ahead with 700 votes to go, and briefly put his hand up to take over leadership last week.
