Jacqui Lambie will remain in federal parliament for another six years after winning one of Tasmania’s six Senate seats, while Pauline Hanson’s daughter has missed out.
The last upper house spot from the Apple Isle had been looming as a race between Lambie and One Nation’s Lee Hanson, but the veteran Senator ended up finishing in fifth spot.
Instead it was Liberal candidate Richard Colbeck taking the sixth and final place to give his party two Senators from the state.
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Labor also had two members elected, finishing first and fourth, while Nick McKim from the Greens also won election.
Hanson, however, failed to gain enough votes to follow her controversial mother into the Senate.
The Australian Electoral Commission began declaring official upper house results yesterday, when Labor’s Charlotte Walker, who turned 21 on election night, won the sixth position from South Australia to become the country’s youngest-ever senator.
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In the Northern Territory, Labor’s Malarndirri McCarthy and Liberal firebrand Jacinta Nampijinpa Price have been re-elected, but results from the five remaining states and territories are yet to be declared by the AEC.
With Labor having gained seats in South Australia, NSW and Queensland, and potentially Victoria and Western Australia too, it will have more Senators than the Liberals and Nationals for the first time since 1984.
It will also only need the support of the Greens to pass legislation through the upper house.
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