![]() ![]() Wilkie emerged at the final count 1.2% ahead of Labor, which had lost the personal vote of its long-term sitting member Duncan Kerr. The distribution of Greens preferences put Wilkie well clear of the Liberal candidate, who polled 22.6% of the primary vote, and Liberal preferences in turn favoured Wilkie over Labor by a factor of nearly four to one. Andrew Wilkie achieved his win with just 21.2% of the primary vote, giving him a crucial lead over the Greens who polled 19.0%. In a nutshell: Labor had reason to assume Denison was a safe seat when long-standing member Duncan Kerr retired at the 2010 election, but its pronounced green-left tinge brought them unstuck with a surprise win for Andrew Wilkie, who had made his name when he resigned as an intelligence analyst in 2003 in protest at the Iraq war.Ĭovering the greater part of Hobart, Denison produced one of the most significant results of the 2010 election in sending one of five cross-bench members to the first hung parliament since World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Location: Central/Western Hobart, Tasmania ![]()
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