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The Electoral district of Narracan in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The Location of Narracan (dark green) in Victoria. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2023 Narracan state supplementary election was held on 28 January 2023 to elect the next member for the electoral district of Narracan in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the death of a nominated candidate prior to the 2022 Victorian state election.
On 21 November 2022, it was reported that the Nationals candidate for the district of Narracan, Shaun Gilchrist, had been found dead. Under electoral law, this means that the lower house election for Narracan was declared as "failed" by the Victorian Electoral Commission. [1] A supplementary election was held for that seat at 28 January 2023. [2] The upper house election for that district, (within the Eastern Victoria Region) was held as scheduled on 26 November.
Labor and the Nationals did not recontest the supplementary election. Animal Justice Party and Family First Victoria nominated new candidates for the supplementary election. [3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | Wayne Farnham | 16,741 | 45.0 | −10.6 | |
| Greens | Alyssa Weaver | 4,132 | 11.1 | +5.1 | |
| Independent | Tony Wolfe | 4,110 | 11.0 | +11.0 | |
| Democratic Labour | Sophia Camille De Wit | 2,641 | 7.1 | +7.1 | |
| Freedom | Leonie Blackwell | 2,254 | 6.1 | +6.1 | |
| One Nation | Casey Murphy | 2,246 | 6.0 | +6.0 | |
| Independent | Annemarie McCabe | 1,437 | 3.9 | +3.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Abelman | 1,325 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
| Family First | Brendan Clarke | 1,089 | 2.9 | +2.9 | |
| Animal Justice | Austin Cram | 849 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| Independent | Ian Honey | 381 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
| Total formal votes | 37,205 | 93.4 | –1.4 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,619 | 6.6 | +1.4 | ||
| Turnout | 39,824 | 78.9 | −5.9 | ||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Wayne Farnham | 23,448 | 63.0 | +3.0 | |
| Independent | Tony Wolfe | 13,757 | 37.0 | +37.0 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.0 | |||
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