Hawthorn is now almost certainly a Liberal seat after four years of being Labor but change is afoot so can the party hold onto it?
Despite being the MP for leafy,blue-chip Hawthorn,Liberal leadership aspirant John Pesutto says he’s the man who can ‘reach out to all corners of the state’.
A number of Melbourne electorates remain too close to call,but postal vote counting on Sunday was trending away from the independents and towards the Liberal Party.
The Victorian Liberal Party leadership contender has edged ahead of teal candidate Melissa Lowe in the ultra-marginal seat of Hawthorn.
Buildings hold our stories and memories. They support our internal architecture. And for decades,that apartment block held mine. It still does.
As the campaign ends,the four main candidates in the marginal seat of Hawthorn have given it their all at pre-polling - and are weary as election day looms.
Teal independents running in three marginal seats have released polling commissioned by Climate 200 pointing to major concern among voters in the electorates about the logging of native forests.
Competition for the state seats of Hawthorn and Kew is heating up,with the Liberal Party putting flyers in letterboxes in the electorates saying a vote for a teal independent candidate is a vote to re-elect the Andrews government.
Heritage has been one of the most contested spaces in Melbourne’s inner east,but at this election only one candidate in Hawthorn has made its protection a core issue.
State political advertising in key seats is now less about the leader and more about the local candidate.